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Identity Management

Identity Management . Dave Thomson - Education Improvement Adviser Worcestershire County Council JISC Shibboleth Forum – 8 th March 2010. Personalising Access to Learning. Location.

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Identity Management

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  1. Identity Management Dave Thomson - Education Improvement Adviser Worcestershire County Council JISC Shibboleth Forum – 8thMarch 2010 Personalising Access to Learning

  2. Location Worcestershire is predominantly rural authority with population centres like Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester. It is responsible for over 240 schools and educational settings catering for for with over 86,000 students and 11,000 staff spread over an area of 200+ square miles. Over time it has developed a fibre optic wide area network providing high quality services to all schools in the county. This infrastructure was essential to provide a range of services and in particular the authority’s approach to identity management.

  3. Network Design The WAN utilizes BT fibre circuits using many High Schools as 100Mb nodes, distributing 10Mb circuits to its local Primary schools. There are around 270 sites or settings with the majority now supported by fibre connections.The WCC WAN is connected to the Janet Network and currently obtains its core internet service over that infrastructure Each school has its own Service Appliance which also performs a number of other functions including Proxy Server, email server and LDAP directory to manage users and groups.

  4. Curriculum Online - 2003 In 2003 the government launched Curriculum Online which was aimed at promoting access to digital content online. Business Requirements: • Provide secure access to a range of commercial materials • Ensure school access to their purchased materials • Use the COL Metadata to provide federated search across multiple repositories

  5. Content Stream • Discussions with 15 COL suppliers resulted in an agreed way forward: • Suppliers should be confident that only those having purchased the content could access it • The LA should be proactive in helping secure sales of content in exchange for working in this way • That the Content Stream service should make use of the suppliers own authentication mechanisms

  6. Content Stream - infrastructure Local Authority Pupil Records School LDAP Directory Staff Identities Central LDAP Content Stream Content Providers Local Repositories

  7. Personalised Learning Government promoted concept of Personalised Learning with much discussion around the concept of personalised services and educational content. Business Case: • Develop a means of delivering services and resources to individual learners through single-sign-on • Build on the existing infrastructure wherever possible to create a framework through which personalised services could be delivered • Create a sense of ownership for schools by allowing adoption of the solution rather than imposition • Establish the infrastructure requirements as part of any future procurement of services by the LA Establish concept of Global Identities

  8. Global ID’s - Requirements A requirements gathering exercise indicated a number of key requirements: Data • Location and management of identity information • Pupil Data – EMS/SIMS/CMIS • Staff Data – SAP/Payroll • Automatic Transfer and Synchronisation of data – School > LA and LA system > LA System Naming Schema for 90,000 Global Identities • Modelling of unique identity • Retention of school email addresses linked to ID • No long usernames Management • Local control of passwords at school level • Lifecycle primary to 6th form Adoption Level 80,000 self migrated identities established by March 2010

  9. IDP Services Local Authority Pupil Records School LDAP Directory IDP Staff Identities Central LDAP Content Stream Content Providers Local Repositories

  10. IDP Services Local Authority Pupil Records School LDAP Directory SAP IDP Staff Identities Central LDAP Content Stream Content Providers Local Repositories

  11. Marketing • Marketing requires: • Range of services to be available from launch • Regular promotion • Briefing sessions • School champions (early adopters)

  12. Sharepoint Integration

  13. Worcestershire Learning Gateway

  14. Current Services

  15. Live Demonstration

  16. Two sides of the same coin! Single or simple sign on is one key component of developing a powerful learning infrastructure………… • The other side of the coin is something equally powerful – SIF or the System Interoperability Framework An infrastructure to support collaborating institutions particularly for 14 to 19……….

  17. Further Developments - 14 to 19 The interworking required of 14 to 19 institutions require access to services and the availability of data about learners to a number if different partners.

  18. Further Developments - 14 to 19 Provided by Perspective Ltd

  19. Thank You Dave Thomson dthomson@worcestershire.gov.uk

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