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Schools Digital technical documentation

Welcome to the technical documentation for apps and libraries in Schools Digital. This site is used internally in the Department for Education.

Repositories we own

C# apps and dependencies

Service name repo framework dfe-analytics-net
Check Performance Data DFE-Digital/check-performance-data net10.0
GIT CRM API DFE-Digital/get-into-teaching-api net8.0
Get Information About Pupils DFE-Digital/get-information-about-pupils net10.0
Get Information About Schools DFE-Digital/get-information-about-schools
SAP Public DFE-Digital/sap-public net10.0
SAP Sector DFE-Digital/sap-sector net10.0
Teaching record system DFE-Digital/teaching-record-system net10.0

Rails apps and dependencies

Service name repo ruby rails postgres alpine node yarn redis
Access your teaching qualifications DFE-Digital/access-your-teaching-qualifications 3.4.4 8.1.3.1 Unknown 3.20 19.6.0 1.22.19 6
Apply for Qualified Teacher Status in England DFE-Digital/apply-for-qualified-teacher-status 3.4.8 8.1.3.1 Unknown 3.23 24.13.0 4.18.0 None
Apply for teacher training DFE-Digital/apply-for-teacher-training 4.0.6 8.1.3.1 Unknown 3.24 24.18.1 1.22.19 None
Check the Children’s Barred List DFE-Digital/check-childrens-barred-list 3.4.9 8.1.3.1 14 unspecified 19.6.0 1.22.19 None
Claim additional payments for teaching DFE-Digital/claim-additional-payments-for-teaching 4.0.7 8.1.3.1 Unknown Unknown 24.4.1 None
DfE Analytics DFE-Digital/dfe-analytics 3.4.2 7.2.2 Unknown Unknown None
Find a lost TRN DFE-Digital/find-a-lost-trn 3.4.8 8.1.3.1 Unknown 3.22 18.1.0 1.22.19 None
Get Into Teaching website DFE-Digital/get-into-teaching-app 3.4.10 8.0.5.1 17 3.23 24.13.0 4.18.0 6
Get School Experience DFE-Digital/schools-experience 3.4.7 7.2.3 17 + PostGIS 3.23 24.13.0 4.18.0 Not pinned
ITT Mentor Services DFE-Digital/itt-mentor-services 3.4.1 8.1.3.1 17 3.21 22.15.1 1.22.1 None
National Professional Qualification registration DFE-Digital/npq-registration 3.4.10 8.1.3.1 17 3.23 24.18.1 1.22.22 Not pinned
Publish teacher training courses DFE-Digital/publish-teacher-training 3.4.10 8.1.3.1 Unknown 3.23 24.13.0 4.18.0 None
Refer serious misconduct by a teacher DFE-Digital/refer-serious-misconduct 3.4.4 8.1.3.1 Unknown 3.20 20.3.0 1.22.19 6
Register of placement schools DFE-Digital/register-placement-schools 3.4.9 8.1.3.1 Unknown 3.24 24.13.0 4.9.1 None
Register of training providers DFE-Digital/register-training-providers 3.4.9 8.1.3.1 17 3.22 24.13.0 4.9.1 None
Register trainee teachers DFE-Digital/register-trainee-teachers 4.0.6 8.1.3.1 17 3.24 24.13.0 4.9.1 None
Teacher Pay Calculator DFE-Digital/teacher-pay-calculator 3.4.1 8.0.2 Unknown unspecified None
Teacher Training Entitlement DFE-Digital/teacher-training-entitlement 3.4.9 8.1.3.1 Unknown 3.23 24.13.0 1.22.22 Not pinned
Teaching vacancies DFE-Digital/teaching-vacancies 4.0.6 8.1.3.1 14 3.24 24.8.0 4.12.0 Not pinned

Other repositories

Service name repo
Database of Qualified Teachers DFE-Digital/database-of-qualified-teachers
DfE Analytics Dataform DFE-Digital/dfe-analytics-dataform
DfE Reference Data DFE-Digital/dfe-reference-data
GOV.UK Markdown DFE-Digital/govuk_markdown
Get Teacher Training Adviser DFE-Digital/get-teacher-training-adviser-service
GitHub Actions DFE-Digital/github-actions
Infrastructure DFE-Digital/bat-infrastructure
Monitoring DFE-Digital/cf-monitoring
Teacher Misconduct System DFE-Digital/teacher-misconduct-system
Teacher Services Cloud DFE-Digital/teacher-services-cloud
Uptime DFE-Digital/teacher-services-upptime

Historic services repositories

Service name repo
BAT Data Maps DFE-Digital/bat-data-maps
Get Into Teaching asset manager DFE-Digital/GITISContent
Early careers framework DFE-Digital/early-careers-framework
Find teacher training DFE-Digital/find-teacher-training
Get a Teacher Relocation Payment DFE-Digital/get-a-teacher-relocation-payment
Get an identity DFE-Digital/get-an-identity

Table of contents

Operating a service

Creating a service

Documenting an API

External contributions

It’s highly recommended and encouraged to contribute to open source projects that we use. Here’s some of the things we’ve done: