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This survey focuses on the process used to verify identity and to communicate login credentials by credentials to prospective, admitted, and registered students by institutions offering degree programs at a distance. The goal is to 1) publish a set of remote identity practices that 2) have been reviewed by key privacy and regulatory experts.
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The survey is intended to be filled out by the individual or individuals most familiar with the application and registration process of your institution's distance education program(s). (The distance education programs we're targeting are ones that considered by this survey should culminate in academic credentials such as a degree or certification.) The survey focuses on the processes used in issuing a username and password to prospective, admitted, and registered students.
How Long will the Survey be Open?
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Responses received from this survey will be analyzed and the results will be presented at the 2010 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference (October 12-15) and made available online shortly afterward on the AACRAO, InCommon, and InCommon Student sites. Specific responses will remain anonymous, with "Institution Name" only being used for correlation between different departments of the same institution and cited in the list of participating schools.
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You can find out more about the InC Student group by visiting their wiki. If you have a question about this survey, please send email to to incommon-info-request@incommon.org.
Terms
The following technology-related terms are used in this survey:
UserID iis an account a user name or login ID (NetID). Can be name-based or not and may or may not be permanent/persistent. For some systems, the userid may also be an email address.
Credential is an identifier (such as a UserIDNetID) or identifying token (such as digital certificate) coupled with a "shared secret". usually a password or pass phrase issued by a system to a person., that has been mapped authoritatively to an individual. The identity of the person may or may not be known to the system when the identifier and the shared secret are issued.Credentialing is a process where the user chooses or is assigned an identifier (number, username, NetID) and completes the process by choosing a "shared secret" (usually a PIN or password), to be used for authentication.
Authentication is a process where an individual seeking access to a resource, proves they are the owner of a credential by entering an identifier (username) and supplying a password (shared secret) known only to the individual and the authenticating system.
Identity Vetting is the process by which information about a person is gathered and certain aspects are verified (like is the email address valid). This process is used to create the digital picture we have about a person.Identity Proofing is the process used to verify the physical identity of an individual by having them present identifying documents such as a passport or drivers license in person, or remotely through challenge-response questions that contain information about the individual being "proofed" that would not be available to the general public. Identity proofing establishes the identity of the person to whom a credential (identifier and shared secret) has been issued.
Identity Mapping is the process whereby the physical individual is coupled with the correct electronic identity information record collected in the Vetting process above. Typically this is done just after the identity proofing stage.
Credentialing is a process where the user chooses or is assigned an identifier (number, username, NetID) and completes the process by choosing a "shared secret" (usually a PIN or password), to be used for authentication.
Demographic Information and Environment
- Department of the person(s) completing the survey. (If you have a team working on filling out the survey, please check all the departments that apply):
- Admissions
- Registrar
- Distance Education
- Information Technology
- Other ______________________
- Institution information
- Name of Institution (This will not be published in the survey results but will be used to correlate answers from the same school.)
- What is the size of the distance education student population?
- How many students go through the prospect process at one time?
- If your institution offers both traditional and distance education degrees, are your student credentials (username/password) maintained and administered:
- Together
- Separately
- Other____________________________
- If your institution offers both traditional and distance degrees, are the admissions and registration functions:
- Combined/consolidated into one unit
- Separate
- Other____________________________
- Please provide your email address if you agree to be contacted regardubg questions about your survey (if any):
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