Generic Use Cases for K-12 Federation
(Licensed, Age-appropriate Web Content)
Licensed video and library services content are being collected in a statewide repository for release to K-20 member institutions. The content provider needs to make certain that students and teachers accessing the content are from educational institutions within the state, and that the content being accessed is appropriate for those accessing it. They also do not want to maintain accounts for every K-20 user in the state.
If there were a statewide federation that included all K-20 institutions, users could access the content service provider and deliver attributes that would indicate that they had: authenticated at their home institution and identify the institution/school, the user affiliation (e.g. student, teacher, parent, etc.) and what grade level (or school type – elementary, middle, high school, HE) so that age-appropriate content could be suggested/delivered to the user.