Stanford University & National Student Clearinghouse Shibboleth Pilot CAMP Phoenix, AZ February 5, 2009

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse Agenda  Stanford Overview  Clearinghouse Overview  Pilot Phase I: Student Self-Service  Pilot Phase II: Staff Access

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse Stanford University  Private research University founded in 1891  Our Student Body  7,071 Undergraduates  8,511 Graduates  15,582 Total  Our Faculty  1,291 Tenure-line faculty  65 Academic departments and interdisciplinary programs  Over 4,000 classes scheduled each quarter

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse National Student Clearinghouse  A non-profit organization serving as a centralized educational agent in fulfilling educational reporting needs  Mission: We serve the education community (3,100 or 91%) by facilitating the exchange and understanding of student enrollment, performance and related information.

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse

Student Access

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse What Students Can Access wide range of enrollment verification activities via the Web for free, including:  Print enrollment certificates (which they can send to health insurers, housing providers and others)  View enrollment history  Check enrollment verifications that the Clearinghouse has provided to student service providers on their behalf  View student loan deferments  Link to real-time information on their student loans via Meteor

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse Current Implementation:

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse Axess, Our Student Portal

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse Current Authentication Screen

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse Axess Services

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse Hand-0ff Screen to the Clearinghouse

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse Instantiated at the Clearinghouse

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse Challenges of Student Access Model (500 institutions using Student Self Service)  Requires custom coding at each institution  Disparate authentication methods deployed by institutions  Clearinghouse places a high level of trust with institutions to properly authenticate students  Clearinghouse uses a proprietary method for establishing sessions

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse Pilot Phase I: Student Access (School First)

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse Pilot Phase I: Student Access (NSC First)

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse New Model Implementing Shibboleth will provide:  Easier implementation for participating InCommon institutions  A robust, common framework for authentication and transitive trust  A federation that governs rules for access and participation  A system based on industry standards

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse Staff Access

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse What Staff Can Access wide range of information activities via the Web:  Core: Data Transmission Info o Transmission schedules; history of Transmissions; history of government reporting: SSCR’s  Student Look-up o Info provided on…; info reported out on…  Degree Verification Info o Verification schedules, history of verifications, statuses & counts of verifications  Student Tracking Info o Inquiries: financial aid-related, admissions-related, institutional research- related  Enrollment Verification o Summary of Third Party Processing, student self-service requests

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse Sign-on Screen

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse Challenges of Staff Access model (Maintaining over 175,000 user accounts with multiple roles from 3,100 participating institutions)  Provisioning new accounts  Password resets  Modifying user roles  Ensuring that user accounts are deleted when user leaves an institution

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse Pilot Phase II: Staff Access

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse Staff Authenticating Locally

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse Passed through to the Clearinghouse…

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse New Model Implementing Shibboleth will provide:  Allows institutions to control process for adding new accounts and managing passwords  Allows institutional roles to be mapped to Clearinghouse roles to control Website access  Immediately revokes Clearinghouse Website access when staff access is removed at the institution

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse What We’ve Learned So far …not there yet!  Target ID must be the Institutional ID (for now):  Adopted PESC and Dept. of Ed. Standard  Move from known ID to opaque target ID  Consult w/ Internet2 standards community  Staff User Interface will change:  Target ID Field (Sept.)  Need to devise an easy way to translate IDs

Stanford University - National Student Clearinghouse Questions? Contact: Thomas Black Stanford University Doug Falk National Student Clearinghouse