This was a report on the SPIE project (Shibboleth aware Portals Information Environments) from Oxford (who are one of the partners in the project)<\/p>\n
I’m impressed by the work done here, but there wasn’t much to ‘see’ – once you’ve seen one login, you’ve seen them all. However it has helped (I think) to clarify some issues concerning Shibboleth and SSO.<\/p>\n
Shibboleth is neither an authentication nor authorization system – it is a framework. I had understood that in order to have SSO, you would also need to have a separate SSO solution (e.g. PubCookie, CAS).<\/p>\n
However, from this presentation I now believe that it is slightly more complex. As long as you are working within the same federation any ‘shibbolized’ resource would be able to understand you already had a ‘shibboleth session’, and so wouldn’t ask for further logins.<\/p>\n
This implies that within a completely shibbolized environment, the need for separate SSO solutions may disappear. However, this is obviously some way off at the moment – many of our resources show no sign of becoming Shib enabled yet…<\/p>\n
It also isn’t clear when Luminis might be Shib enabled (as opposed to uPortal). At the moment I believe that Luminis will work with CAS, so it maybe that we should investigate this as well as our current work on Shibboleth (via the ShibboLEAP project).<\/p>\n
support a portal for prospective students. The main business drivers were:<\/p>\n
Gain competitive edge
\nIncreased efficiency
\nEnabling better service for true enquiries
\nConvert more applicants into actual students<\/p>\n
One attendee questioned some of this, as Nottingham is terribly over-subscribed, and the ‘prospective students’ portal currently only deals with UCAS applicant students – rather than those that might have more of an impact such as overseas or postgraduate students.<\/p>\n
When they have put in an application (I think), Prospective Students are sent a letter with a username\/password – which is only valid where they are a prospective student – they get a new one when they become a student (there was a question about when does someone move from ‘prospect’ to ‘student’)<\/p>\n
Prospective student details are held in the internal Luminis LDAP – and there is fall-through authentication on the portal, which uses the internal Luminis authentication if the main Nottingham LDAP fails (which it would always do for Prospects).<\/p>\n
\nWithin the portal, deliver information about their application – updated as this changes (similar to the ‘Status Checker’ we offer at RHUL).
\nAlso general information about student life – links to different areas\/facilities, as well as showing webcams etc from around campus.
\nFinance information – including ‘Fee estimator’ which covers Course fees, accommodation fees, food, gas\/electricity, water, council tax etc.
\nContact information – for more information.<\/p>\n
For Nottingham PSP (Prospective Student Portal) is part of the ongoing relationship with their students – from Propsect, to Student, to Alumni. However, each ‘portal’ is acutally role based rather than separate portal installations.<\/p>\n
Future goals are:
\nPG Admissions Portal
\nImproved\/integrated online prospectus
\nTargeted announcements
\nStudent induction channels
\nLinks to CMS
\nSchool managed channels
\nOn-line payment of fees (already have for existing students)<\/p>\n
on the otherhand offer the portal once students become UF (Unconditional Firm) – at this point, they start treating them as full students, and issue them with a student username and passwords, and give access to the full range of services. The username\/password is sent by post, but there is an online ‘signup’ procedure, where they have to agree to the relevant regulations before they get full access to services.<\/p>\n
This has proved very popular, with over 61% of new students had used MyEd by 12th Sept 2005, after the passwords going out in the Summer. Next year they plan to send out username\/passwords earlier – in fact, they expect to send out the first ones to UF students starting in Sept 2006 in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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