September 2012
Shibboleth Training Workshop Oct. 22-23
Registration is open for the next Shibboleth training workshop, October 22-23, 2012, in Gainesville, Florida. Shib workshops provide installation and configuration training by experts, for both Linux and Windows platforms.
Are You Supporting Research & Scholarship?
We've heard from a number of identity providers that are supporting the Research & Scholarship category by releasing the appropriate attributes. Releasing attributes to the category means better scalability and easier collaborations for your faculty and other researchers.
CILogon Support: If you operate an identity provider that already supports CILogon, a one-line change to your IdP configuration will allow you to support all Research & Scholarship category service providers.
Leveraging a Phone for Password Reset
Tom Scavo, InCommon's operations manager, continues his discussion about mobile-based two-factor authentication, and a password reset strategy that leverages a privileged phone.
Participant Logo Available
InCommon has an "InCommon Participant" logo available for any participant to use in such places as a login page, identity management portion of a website, or case studies. It is available for download in a variety of formats.
New Certificate Service Subscribers
Welcome to new InCommon Certificate Service subscribers. These institutions bring the total to 190 subscribers:
- Denison University
- Furman University
- Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- Mississippi State University
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
- Wright State University
New Participants in August
As of the end of July, InCommon has 446 participants. We welcome these new participants to the InCommon community.
Higher Education
Research Organization
Sponsored Partners
AcademicWorks allows colleges, universities, and foundations to efficiently match students with relevant scholarship and grant opportunities, manage renewable awards, and recognize scholarship donors. Our web-based software can integrate with your campus's student information system (e.g., PeopleSoft, Banner, Datatel) to import student records daily and automatically update student eligibility based on both student provided and imported information. Now, through our sponsorship by CSU-Fresno, AcademicWorks can implement a federated Single Sign-On integration to allow administrators and students to access their scholarship information using campus credentials. Learn more at www.academicworks.com.
The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library is one of the highest quality, most affordably priced scholarly databases available today, containing the complete archive of 62 peer reviewed scholarly journals and technology magazines, 2,500 conference proceeding volumes, 37 Special Interest Group (SIG) Newsletters, and the premier bibliographic database in the field of computing, containing over 1,900,000 publication records from over 2,000 publishers worldwide. In the full-text database alone, there are currently over 350,000 articles available for immediate download and this figure is growing at a rate of roughly 22,000 new articles per year.
Innotas, a leading provider of cloud solutions for IT management, delivers a seamless way to manage resources, applications, and projects across all of IT and PMOs. With a strong foundation in project portfolio management and application portfolio management, Innotas provides IT management and PMOs with greater visibility across both strategic initiatives and sustaining operations for improved decision making across the entire project and application portfolio. Innotas recently won the 2012 CODiE Award for Best Project Management Software and was positioned as a ‘Leader’ in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud-based Project and Portfolio Management Services solution in 2012. Visit www.innotas.com.
Moofwd (pronounced “MOO-forward”), is an enterprise mobile solution provider, offering InCommon members ways to extract new value and utility from their existing IT systems through the creation of cross-platform mobile apps. The Mooestro Mobile Education Platform, powered by Moofwd, intelligently combines elements from multiple internal systems and data sources together with external services and resources to mobilize student and faculty academic workflow. Applications developed on the platform run on all leading smartphone and tablet devices, resolving information system fragmentation. Data and device agnostic, the Moofwd approach empowers IT departments to deploy new mobile initiatives with maximum results.
MyEvaluations.com is a trusted provider of enterprise-grade medical education management solutions for academic hospitals, clinical programs, medical schools and governmental public health agencies of all sizes. We support the unique requirements of highly regulated clinical environments with robust, scalable, and customizable information systems that incorporate an institution’s existing data needs and healthcare workflow. As an InCommon participant, MyEvaluations.com facilitates third party integration and single sign-on functionality for all clients and users. For more information, visit www.myevaluations.com.
Sallie Mae Campus Solutions offers an integrated suite of e-commerce and payment processing solutions that help schools save time and money, achieve efficiencies, and deliver enhanced services to students, parents, and alumni. As the recognized leader in helping schools manage the business of education, we administer more than $8 billion in transactions for 1,000 campuses each year. Our secure, redundant systems and services are backed by industry-leading customer service and expert technical support. Since 1970, our solutions have helped in the bursar, registrar, alumni, financial aid, and other offices on campuses across the country.
