A standardised specification for data exchange in school administration is being developed across the federal states. This specification is necessary to enable data exchange without media discontinuity between the actors in the life situation of schools and thus to digitalise school administration services interoperably in accordance with the Online Access Act (OZG) and the Single Digital Gateway (SDG).

XSchule is a standardisation project in the field of education that has been placed on the standardisation agenda by the IT Planning Council under the leadership of the state of Saxony-Anhalt and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

For higher education especially the focus on upper secondary school certificates is interesting.