InCommon Federation Discussions About Online Student Services

[Dean Woodbeck <>]

InCommon Student Notes – May 14, 2010

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Attendees

Brendan Bellina, University of Southern California
Keith Hazelton, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mark Scheible, North Carolina State University
Ken Servis, University of Southern California
Ann West, Internet2
Dean Woodbeck, Internet2 (scribe)

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SURVEY

Agenda for today was to review the remote proofing survey, determine whether 
there is overlap with the WCET efforts, then determine next steps for the 
survey.

The proposed survey does not overlap with the WCET activity, which is focused 
on assessment testing and authentication at the time of the assessment. That 
said, the efforts are complementary and Molly from WCET seems very interested 
in working with us. One area of joint interest would be the case I which the 
distance education folks use the userID and password as a way to meet their 
compliance issue. In that case, the way in which IDs are issued would be 
important to them (and to this group).

There was discussion on the scope of the InC-Student survey. The key is to 
stick to how permanent credentials are assigned and, possibly, how password 
resets are accomplished. We would be looking at these categories of students: 
1) matriculated students (both distance and on-campus) and 2) methods for 
password reset (both distance and on-campus).

There was discussion about whether to pose questions about LoA, but the 
audience for the survey would be AACRAO members and they likely would not 
know about LoA. It was agreed not to include LoA questions, but perhaps 
include a statement or question about how comfortable people are with their 
process for issuing credentials. But the focus needs to be high-level and 
focused on business processes.

As top distribution, the ideal would be to have it sent from AACRAO in an 
email personally addressed to the registrar. 

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NEXT STEPS

(AI) Keith will work with Karen @ Wisconsin on the matriculated students 
section, then share the draft with Ken for comment.

(AI) Ann will draft the password reset section, then share the draft with 
Brendan and Mark S. for comment.

DUE DATE FOR DRAFTS – have a draft for next call (May 28). By June 11, have 
the draft to an appropriate length. By June 18, move the survey to a survey 
tool and send the notice on June 25.

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AACRAO Tech and ITANA

Keith discussed the AACRAO Tech meeting, scheduled for July in Kansas City, 
and the involvement of the IT Architects working group (ITANA). The concept 
is to have registrars and IT architects attend the session together. The 
focus will be on the student lifecycle. Information is at 
http://www.aacrao.org/tech10/

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NEXT MEETING – Friday, May 28 – 3 p.m. EDT / 2 p.m. CDT / 1 p.m. MDT / Noon 
PDT