1. Opportunities and Efficiencies: Supporting Student Services with Federated Identity (continued)
Thomas Black
EDUCAUSE 2008

2. Responding with Policy, Process and Technology
The Need: Provide more services, leverage more service providers while improving security
Predefined trust relationship
Data standards for exchange
Control of disclosure
Adequate level of assurance

3. Responding with Policy, Process and Technology
The Need: Support the university in maintaining a lifelong relationship with students
Persistent Identifiers (no reuse of certain identifiers)
Continuing to serve as identity provider
Reestablishing connection between identity and identifier
Ability to evolve name of individual

4. Two Use Cases: ASPs CollegeNet: What Do You Think?
On-line Course Evaluation System
Students and Faculty Access
Surveys and Compiled Reports
National Student Clearinghouse
On-line Enrollment Certification & Degree Verification
Students and Staff Access
Student Data

5. Logging into our portal

6. Authenticating into web portal

7. Navigating to course and section evaluations

8. Course evaluation data presentation
Welcome, Professor Alchemist!

9. CollegeNet’s “What Do You Think?” Online Course Evaluation
Point of Dependency: File Exchanges
Participants must be introduced to the system in advance of launching the site each term.
Enrollment and Instructor data must be current at the 11th hour…
Do we really need to send them all these data?

10. N.S.C. Manual Account Setup and Active Account Problem:
Institutional contact fax’s the identity information to NSC to set up accounts.
Institutional contact is charged with notifying NSC if an account should be removed

11. What Students See
Student PeopleSoft portal used to redirect Students to NSC

12. What Students See
NSC matches with Student data (dump) from institution.
We’re handing over more than we need to in this transaction.

13. What Students See
NSC matches with Student data (dump) from institution.
We’re handing over more than we need to in this transaction.

14. Post-secondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC)
Registrars are very keen to use PESC standard for data exchanges
Discussions about mapping of eduPerson to PESC XML
Institutions switching from SSN to some UnivID
Some starting to issue distinct unique IDs per provider
SSN still “necessary” for transactions…even the ASPs know this is a bad idea…What do we do about this “necessity” in assertions?

15. What Staff See NSC maintain accounts for thousands of university Staff
Currency of affiliation information is a risk

16. Shib-enabled NSC

18. New Rules!
Identity confirmed locally & access and capabilities set by attributes sent to ASP

19. Questions?