• DAILY CERTIFICATION Certify runs a battery of data certification rules each night against the district's student information system and alerts designated staff each day if errors are found. This daily, pro-active process of data certification has been proven to raise overall levels of data quality, shorten the time spent validating and correcting data, and reduce the cost and stress of compliance reporting.
  
  
• EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS Designated school and district staff are automatically alerted each day when data errors are identified. Email Notifications are personalized, so they include just the data certification rules for which that recipient has responsibility, e.g., student attendance rules for an attendance clerk in a middle school. Email Notifications provide a summary of errors with a link to a secure Data Certification Scorecard, so no private student data is ever sent in email or in spreadsheets.
  
  
• DATA CERTIFICATION SCORECARD Each Certify user has a personalized, online Data Certification Scorecard which displays the data errors in that user's area of responsibility, such as a school or program. Certify runs a battery of rules against the district's student information system, or other administrative system, on a daily basis, and generates the Data Certification Scorecard automatically – eliminating the need for staff to run separate error reports. The Data Certification Scorecard allows users to "drill down" and see details for each record in error – expediting the process of error review and correction.
  
  
• DATA CERTIFICATION SCORE The Data Certification Score is a dynamic metric which summarizes the overall condition of the data being certified, and reflects the general work effort required to bring the Score to 100%, which equates to no errors in the data. The Data Certification Score allows school and district users to gauge their progress on a daily basis.
  
  
• CERTIFY RULE LIBRARY The Certify Rule Library™ is Certica's collection of data certification rules which have been gathered from school district implementations of Certify nationwide. The rules represent the most widely used, top-priority data validations applied to data in district information systems – to ensure accurate calculation of FTE and ADA, demonstrate accountability and maximize funding. The rules are hosted and maintained by Certica and are mapped to the nation's most widely used student information systems. See the Certify Rule Library fact sheet for more information.
  
  
• PRESCRIPTIONS Data Certification Rule Prescriptions provide explanatory information about each rule, and can guide school and district staff about how to correct errors and enter data correctly. Districts can author individualized Prescriptions for their district or collaborate with other districts to author Prescriptions that are common to a student information system. Rule Prescriptions are configurable and can contain text, html, pdfs, or links to online sources.
  
  
• TREND REPORTS Trend Reports allow district staff, such as department heads and program coordinators, to view the improvement in data over time, and identify the schools which have the most improvement, or least improvement.
  
  
• SECURITY The Certify hosted environment is completely secure, and unlike other error reporting mechanisms where sensitive data is often emailed in spreadsheets between district and school personnel, Certify's Email Notifications do not include sensitive student data, but only a link to a secure login screen. Users need a password to view actual data records.
  
  
• EASE OF PROVISIONING Getting started with Certify takes just a few days. Because the Certify Rule Library contains all the necessary database mappings for your district's system, it's easy to get started with Certify, and your district does not need to create data extraction programs.

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