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School-level feature — managed within your school portal at yourschool.deandesk.com. Admin role required.
DeanDesk includes an Ed-Fi-aligned export that maps your school’s students, enrollments, courses, sections, attendance, and grades into resources structured around the Ed-Fi data standard. Use it to feed downstream systems, prepare state reports, or audit your data alignment.

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What’s in the export

The export covers:
ResourceSource data
StudentsUser Management student records
Schools / education organizationsYour school configuration
CoursesCourses you’ve created
SectionsCourses scoped to terms or instructors
Student section associationsCourse enrollments
Calendar eventsAcademic calendar entries
Attendance eventsAttendance records — full list or exceptions only
GradesGradebook grades and term grades

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Preview the export

The Ed-Fi preview is admin-only. From the Admin Dashboard, navigate to Integrations → Ed-Fi Preview.
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Pick the attendance mode

Choose how attendance events are returned:
ModeWhat it returns
AllEvery attendance record for every student/day
Exceptions onlyOnly non-present records (absent, tardy, excused)
Exceptions-only is much smaller and is often what state reporting requires.
2

Run the preview

Click Preview. DeanDesk returns a JSON document containing each Ed-Fi resource as a top-level array.
3

Download or pipe

Download the JSON file, or use the API endpoint to integrate the export with your state reporting pipeline.
The preview reflects your live data. Run it after grades or attendance have been finalized for a term to get the cleanest export.

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Common workflows

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State reporting

Most states accept Ed-Fi-aligned data for their annual reports. Use Exceptions only for attendance to keep the file size manageable, and run the preview at the close of each reporting window.

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Feeding a data warehouse

If you maintain a central data warehouse, you can poll the Ed-Fi preview endpoint on a schedule and ingest the resulting JSON. Each resource is a top-level array with stable identifiers, so you can run incremental updates.

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Validating data quality

The preview is also a useful data quality check. If a student is missing from the export, that often means their User record is missing required fields (date of birth, grade level). Use the preview to catch these gaps before a reporting deadline.
The Ed-Fi export is a read-only projection of your DeanDesk data. It does not modify any records or push data into Ed-Fi systems automatically — that’s the job of whatever pipeline you build on top of it.