Streamlining College Applicant Login Using Social Login

Posted by Kaia Brem on May 23, 2018 10:20:41 AM
AN IDENTITY MANAGEMENT NIGHTMARE - PART 2 OF 3

Introduction from Cirrus Identity CEO, Dedra Chamberlin:

One of the biggest pain points in Higher Education is the ridiculous number of user accounts High School students have to create when applying to college. Cirrus Identity was fortunate to have an intern who recently went through the process, and was willing to blog about it! Without further ado, here is part 2 of her post...

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Topics: Social Identity, College, Higher Education, Federated Identity Management, Identity and Access Management, Applying to College

How Many User Accounts Does it Take to Apply to College?

Posted by Kaia Brem on Mar 2, 2017 12:07:38 AM

An Identity Management Nightmare - Part 1 of 3

This blog also published on medium.

Introduction from Cirrus Identity CEO, Dedra Chamberlin

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Topics: Social Identity, College, Higher Education, Federated Identity Management, EdTech, Identity and Access Management

Introducing Guest Account Management Solutions for Higher Ed

Posted by Dedra Chamberlin on Jul 29, 2016 9:18:31 AM

Cirrus Identity has been busy expanding our suite of services, and we are proud to announce our new Guest Management package. This packages combines social identity login (with our familiar social-to-saml gateway), a stand-alone external identity provider (branded with your campus look and feel) for users who don't want to use social login, our invitation service, an account linking service, an identity provider proxy, and APIs to integrate with your enterprise identity systems. Together, these services enhance the user experience for guests trying to gain online access at universities.

The growing need for campuses to simplify guest access to online services hasn’t been met with a viable solution, until now.

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Topics: Social Identity, SAML, Federated Identity Management, EdTech

Login User Experience: Before and After Cirrus Identity

Posted by Dedra Chamberlin on Aug 27, 2015 7:00:00 AM

We are working with Newcastle University in the motherland. Here is what their log-in process looked like before Cirrus Identity.

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Topics: Social Identity, Higher Education

It’s My Party...I’ll invite Social IDs If I Want To

Posted by Dedra Chamberlin on Jul 23, 2015 9:00:00 PM

So you’re throwing a party! And in this case, it’s a Relying Party, or as we like to call them in the Higher Education world, a Service Provider. For the sake of broader audience appeal, and to make my whole “party” analogy work, I’ll stick with “Relying Party” in this post.

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Topics: Social Identity, OpenID Connenct, SAML