DEX Reporting In Development
Below, you will find a list of features and updates currently under study or work by IDOE’s Data Exchange Team.
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Developments Items for 2026-2027
Feature/Update: | Description: | Area Affected: | Development Team Status: | Status Updated on: | Other Notes: |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Multilingual Learners | New Validation | Multilingual Learners | approved for development | Jan 19, 2026 | New validation when schools report service descriptor of Proficient-Additional Evidence Review the students must be in grades 4-13. |
Multilingual Learners | Removal of Pull-out ESL program | Multilingual Learners | approved for development | Jan 16, 2026 | Pull-out ESL program is no longer available and removed from school support in Knowledge Hub but was showing for SIS vendors and will be removed as an allowable program. |
Staff Injury | Template 031 update | Staff Injury | approved for development | Jan 16, 2026 | Update School ID field to Corporation ID or LEA ID - Data is expected to be provided by LEA |
Pupil Enrollment | New Validation | Pupil Enrollment | approved for development | Jan 16, 2026 | New validation to alert schools when an expelled student enrolls in another Indiana school is reporting the student as enrolled. |
Course Outcomes | New Validation | Course Outcomes | approved for development | Jan 16, 2026 | New validation on dual credit reporting. Courses not identified by IDOE as being dual credit cannot have dual credit reported. |
Developments Items for 2025-2026
Feature/Update: | Description: | Area Affected: | Development Team Status: | Status Updated on: | Other Notes: |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Special Education Termination | TR-12 Validation | Special Education Termination | deployed | Nov 14, 2025 | Inactivated TR-12 as this is no longer valid |
Staff Employment | CE-10 & CE-12 Update | Staff Employment | deployed | Nov 14, 2025 | Updated logic on CE-10 increasing years of experience to 75 Updated logic on CE-12 increasing supplemental salary to 45,000 |
Additional Student Information | Homeless Validation | Additional Student Information | deployed | Nov 14, 2025 | Inactivating (turning off) AD-1 validation requiring a homeless program when reporting Unaccompanied Youth program. Not all unaccompanied youth qualify as homeless (McKinney/Vento) |
Multilingual Learners | Validation Baseball Card Updates | Multilingual Learners | deployed | Nov 14, 2025 | ML-8 validation - additional information to be provided on the baseball card (Birth Country and Language) ML-3 validation - additional information to be provided on the baseball card (MLL Program) |
Attendance | Attendance Rosters | Attendance | deployed | Oct 31, 2025 | Adding total number of Suspended days back to the roster. |
Student Accommodations | New Accommodation Descriptor | Student Accommodations | deployed to vendors | Oct 31, 2025 | Adding ‘Alternate Tester’ under the I AM assessment to identify those testers when no other accommodations are needed. |
Student Accommodations | Student Accommodations Review Tab (ODS Resource File) | Student Accommodations | deployed | Oct 17, 2025 | New field on student accommodation providing school staff where the accommodation was provided from…PSSP or from the school either from the SIS or template upload. |
Pupil Enrollment | Update PE Roster | Pupil Enrollment | deployed | Sep 23, 2025 | Added back the SES column to the PE roster. |
Course Outcomes | Update CC-1 | Course Outcomes | deployed | Sep 11, 2025 | Update CC-1 logic allowing transfer credits for identified IB courses to be reported from a non-identified IB school. |
Special Education | Update EV-7 | Special Education Evaluation | deployed | Sep 11, 2025 | Update EV-7 logic to have timeline compliance descriptor 01 removed. |
Graduate | NEW Template | Graduate | deployed | Jan 12, 2026 | Additional NEW template for reporting new Indiana Diplomas. |
Pupil Enrollment | Additional Conflict Validation | Pupil Enrollment | deployed | Jul 30, 2025 | New conflict validation when student is enrolled in two schools (primary true and false) where the schools are not reporting the same (matching) grade levels. |
Curricular Materials Assistance | Removal/New Report Feature | October Certification | deployed | Jul 30, 2025 | Removing CMA from the October certification cycle. Moving access to historical CMA data within DEX for users to still access. |
DEX Home Page Report | Corp of Legal Settlement report | Home Page | deployed | Sep 11, 2025 | Report providing information to schools a list of students reported with their COLS that do not have enrollment in the LEA/School. |
Attendance/Membership | Update AT-2, 6, 9 and ME-47 | Attendance | deployed | Jul 24, 2025 | Update AT-2, 6, and 9 and ME-47 logic to recognize new Excused absence codes. |
Graduate | Update GR-24 | Graduate | deployed | Jul 30, 2025 | Update GR-24 logic to identify students in the 2023 or greater grad cohort must have postsecondary competency of Waiver Postsecondary Readiness Competency when reporting diploma levels of 04 or 13. |
Graduate | Update GR-2 | Graduate | deployed | Jul 24, 2025 | Update GR-2 to add an exception of diploma levels 06 and 07 not requiring pathway data. |
Special Education | Additional Validation | Special Education | deployed | Jul 24, 2025 | Additional validation when a student’s enrollment has been ended and no additional enrollment is reported AND the SE program record does not have an end date. |
Attendance | Additional Validation | Attendance | deployed | Sep 11, 2025 | Additional validation alerting schools when a student’s attendance is more than total number of in session school calendar dates available at any point in time during the school year. |
Validations | Relevant validations to run after certification | All Datasets | deployed Oct Rules (ML/PE) | Nov 3, 2025 | Relevant validations will run the entire school year even after certification is closed for a specific data set. Example - PE-6 requires a race code. This will continue to run and provide errors back all year after October certification is complete. |
DEX Home Page Report | No Show Report | Home Page | deployed | Aug 14, 2025 | Report similar to RT No Show report in STN Application Center - assist with maintaining accurate enrollment data, identify students that may have incorrect exit code, assist with maintaining graduation cohort report |
Attendance | Additional Excused absence codes and Removal of Excused Absence | Attendance | Deployed to vendors | Jun 19, 2025 | Six new Excused absence codes added to provide the absence with the reason for new statute. Removed Excused Absence for reporting in 2025-2026 SY. |
Special Education | APC funding levels updated for 2025-2026 school year. | Special Education | deployed | Jul 15, 2025 | Allows schools to see updated funding amounts for SE. |
Calendar | Additional Validation on Calendars provided | Calendar | deployed | Jul 15, 2025 | Validation alerting schools when more than one calendar has been provided for a school ID. |
Calendar | Additional Validation on Calendar Event Descriptors | Calendar | deployed | Jul 15, 2025 | Validation no longer allowing more than one calendar event to be reported on the same calendar date. |
Calendar | Logic update on CL-15 on Event Duration | Calendar | deployed | Jul 15, 2025 | Update logic to not allow the event duration to be less than 1 (currently only saying less than zero). |
Alternative Education | Alt-Ed FTE Summary Grid | Alternative Education | deployed | Jan 12, 2026 | IDOE will utilize data from the Alt-Ed Program Renewal Application to build out the Alt-Ed FTE calculation within DEX. A new FTE certification summary grid will be added to the Alt-Ed certification in July. |
Discipline | Arrest Summary Grid | Discipline | deployed | Jul 15, 2025 | Additional summary grid for schools to certify total counts of arrest reasons by grade level. |
Course Outcomes | Additional Method Credit Earned | Course Outcomes | deployed to vendors | Apr 1, 2025 | Adding Method Credit Earned descriptor ‘2025 Credit Corrections’ for reporting in 2026 SY |
Discipline | Update to discipline roster | Discipline | deployed | Jul 15, 2025 | Additional fields for Weapon descriptors to the validation/certification and ODS resource rosters. |
Multilingual Learners | Update to MLL program roster | Multilingual Learners | deployed | Jul 15, 2025 | Additional field for program service to the MLL validation/certification and ODS resource rosters. |
Accountable School | Additional validation for reporting of accountable school | Membership | deployed | Jul 15, 2025 | Additional validation not allowing school IDs to be reported who are not allowed to be reported as an accountable school (do not receive an accountability grade). |
Special Education | Timeline Compliance descriptor | Special Education Evaluation | deployed to vendors | Mar 5, 2025 | Updated the short and long description of Timeline Compliance descriptor 09. Short description = Timeline missed, First Steps began <90 days before 3rd bday. Long description = Timeline missed, child began First Steps services less than 90 days before third birthday. |
Discipline | Robbery behavior descriptor being added | Discipline | deployed to vendors | Mar 5, 2025 | Addition of Robbery added as a behavior to discipline reporting. |
Graduation | Addition of diploma level descriptors for reporting new Indiana diplomas | Graduate | deployed to vendors | Mar 5, 2025 | Seven diploma level descriptors for reporting graduate records with new Indiana diplomas. |
Graduation Plan | Addition of grad plan descriptors |
| deployed to vendors | Mar 5, 2025 | Eight graduation plan type descriptors for reporting grad plan (intent) data on 2029 cohort students. |
Virtual Program Record | Update to Membership and Student Program Rosters | Membership | deployed | Jul 15, 2025 | Update membership validation/certification roster to include new virtual service field. Update to student program ODS resource roster to include new virtual service field. |
Virtual Program Record | Additional validations for new service field in virtual program | Membership | deployed | Jul 15, 2025 | Additional validations requiring new data field and only allowing services identified to virtual program to ensure data quality. |