SINGLE SIGN-ON ACROSS THE COMMUNITY: Streamlining the Admissions Process James M Bouse, University of Oregon Louis D Hunt, North Carolina State University at Raleigh Arnie Miles, Georgetown University Ann West, Internet2/InCommon Facilitator: Michael Sessa, PESC
Could This Change the Way We Do Business? (Or rather, Admissions?) What is it? What do your colleagues think about it? What do you think about it? How to participate in CommIT Collaborative Project
Story 1: Cathy applies to Penn State Clicks Apply Online, she sees a login screen and clicks on Use Your CommIT Credentials.. Clicks Provide Demographic Information and her information is populated in the form per her prior approval with CommIT Scrolls to the academic credential section of the form and notices Click on the tests you would like to include in your application Adds a check mark next to SAT, ACT, and AP History and AP Chemistry tests, but there s no place to add her scores. Clicks on Check for scores. Penn State checks what test scores are on file from the source organizations and prompts her with a window that says: We have your SAT, AP History and AP Chemistry scores on file. Should we go get your ACT score now? You can always do this later, if you d like to finish the rest of your application now. Decides to do now and clicks on YES. Get my ACT score. Sees a page on the ACT site that contains a question Send your ACT score to Penn State now? Clicks YES and is prompted with a window: ACT will send your score of 31 to Penn State now. You have 1 score request left in your 5 score pack. Shall we send future scores to Penn State on your behalf? Clicks YES and then NEXT and is sent back to the Penn State Application. Notices that the application now displays the verified ACT score (and verified SAT and AP scores).
Story 2: Betsy Applies to Graduate School On the NCSU graduate site, Betsy notices the CommIT Collaborative logo and the blurb that it will help streamline her admissions process to Graduate School. Surfs to the CommIT site and clicks on "Apply to Graduate School. Asked to log in, she chooses Penn State as her authentication service and logs in there. CommIT then presents with information about she can set up time-based relationships between her undergraduate and potential graduate schools. Sees a list of CommIT participants and drags Penn State into the "information provider" box and Georgetown and NCSU into the "information recipient" box and clicks ok. Screen is updated with New Information Relationships and lists the two she just set up. Surfs to NCSU's graduate admissions site and clicks on login and chooses PennState as her home institution. PennState passes her name to NCSU and NCSU displays "Welcome to NSCU, Betsy. What would you like to do?" Thinking for a moment, Betsy clicks on "Apply to Graduate School. Window pops up and asks "Have you defined Information Relationships with the CommIT Collaborative? Clicks on yes. "Please wait while we are checking on your access management preferences. Window is updated with "Access preferences found. Would you like us to download your PennState 1) demographic information 2) academic transcript 3) link to academic portfolio, 4) letters of recommendation, or 5) all of the above?" Clicks on all of the above. Screen shows the NCSU Graduate Application filled in except for external contributions and other items not in her transcript. Notices that the transcript and letters have been download and portfolio link provided.
What Does it Promise? Reduced mailing, admin and IT costs through outsourced authentication for your prospects (and applicants) Fewer userid/password pairs for users Increased confidence of your prospects electronic identities, reducing your risk Easy integration with industry to enable new services Ability for a prospect to set up a pipeline of information among organizations for period of time Slam-dunk matching of third-party information with your prospect/applicant records
Who? Common Identity and Trust Collaborative CommIT Collaborative Project Members Industry (College Board, ACT, National Student Clearinghouse/ Meteor, Common App/Hobsons, and others) Higher Education (University of Oregon, North Carolina State, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Indiana University, USC, and others) Standards bodies (PESC) Trust Framework Providers (InCommon)
Overview Federation is the norm in the real world Driver s Licenses, Passports Electronic authentication has a history of creating silos of credentials Higher education is leading a movement towards Federated authentication CommIT is the beginning of a movement towards Federated authentication among all education
CommIT Collaborative A high school student wants to apply to multiple colleges A central identity provider issues a single set of credentials and a unique identifier Students get single sign-on to access all service providers involved in the process Universities get scores and transcripts matched accurately to prospects
CommIT Collaborative A high school student wants to apply to multiple colleges Testing agencies vet identities Universities get high quality credentials Universities can provision accounts for applicant services and new admissions Universities know who they re working with, even with remote students
CAMPUS PERSPECTIVES Louis Hunt, Vice President of Enrollment Management and Services and University Registrar North Carolina State University
CAMPUS PERSPECTIVES Jim Bouse Associate Registrar for Technology University of Oregon
YOUR PERSPECTIVE
What to know more? Join us for bi-weekly discussions with other schools InCommon Student Services Group with other schools https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/ixq Get on the email list: awest@internet2.edu CommIT Project bi-weekly calls https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/l6skaq Get on the email list. Details on the wiki Contact us Jim Bouse jbouse@uoregon.edu Louis Hunt louis_hunt@ncsu.edu Arnie Miles adm35@georgetown.edu Michael Sessa michael.sessa@pesc.org Ann West awest@internet2.edu