InCommon has released two new case studies describing how campuses have federated with UniversityTickets and with StudentsOnly.
Lafayette College sought to provide student-only tickets to campus events through an agreement with UniversityTickets. The Dean of Students office worked with the company, but ran up against the challenge of providing user IDs and passwords for all 2,300-plus students. Lafayette turned to a federated solution, which the college had already used with some of its other resource providers, including library applications and the Moodle course management system.
At the University of Washington, "we wanted to offer the discount travel program as a service for our students," said registrar Todd Mildon. "But we did not want a third party accessing our directory and we did not want to generate many phone calls or visits to our office seeking student verification."
Washington and StudentsOnly, which provides a service using a number of enrollment verification methods, also decided a federated approach would provide value to all parties.
InCommon publishes case studies that outline problems facing identity providers and service providers, and outlining the development of a solution. The case studies can provide ideas for additional services to federate, as well as a resource to share with other campus offices.
The InCommon case studies are available at www.incommonfederation.org/cases.html