InCommon Federation Discussions About Online Student Services

[Dean Woodbeck <>]

InC Student Collaboration - June 8, 2012

Attending:

Kim Alling, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Brian Allison, USA Funds

Vince Flowers, Penn State

Michael Gettes, Carnegie Mellon University

Karen Hanson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Louis Hunt, North Carolina State

Jim Leous, Penn State

Nate Klingenstein, Internet2

Arnie Miles, Georgetown University

Dave Moldoff, AcademyOne

R.L. “Bob” Morgan, University of Washington

Rodney Petersen, EDUCAUSE

Ann West, InCommon/Internet2

Dean Woodbeck, InCommon/Internet2 (scribe)

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Use Cases

We reviewed the use cases from Carnegie Mellon and Penn State. These are on this wiki page: 

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/InCCollaborate/CommIT+Collaborative+-+Stage+One

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Duplicate Records

This led to a discussion about duplicate records.

• students may create more than one CommIT ID
• where will lie the responsibility for matching and/or sorting out duplicate records? CommIT? There will be a cost associated with the matching, wherever it takes place.
• Will there be a CommIT help desk to resolve issues when students have multiple IDs that need to be sorted out as they submit applications to colleges?
• CommIT could minimize the number of duplicate records by periodically communicating with everyone who has an ID (reminding them they have the ID, so they won’t create another).

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Higher Education Requirements

We are collecting Higher Education requirements for CommIT on the wiki:

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/InCCollaborate/DRAFT+CommIT+Stage+One+Release+-+HE+Requirements

What information will be collected and/or passed along by CommIT?

• Suggestion: name, date of birth, address, email address. These will help colleges match duplicates, personalize portal pages, communicate with potential students; as well as to allow CommIT to be in a position to match duplicates
• General agreement that CommIT should collect a minimum amount of information, but it is unclear what constitutes “minimum.”
• It would also be possible to collect information from third-parties (like Axiom or Facebook), so CommIT could provide such information to services, but not have to collect/maintain the information.
• If CommIT provides information like name, address, etc., students could choose to have forms pre-populated, which would help as they fill out applications at various schools.

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Next Call - Friday, June 22, 2012 - 3 pm EDT