Transcript Academic Computing and Network Services

FSU’s Portal Project
Secure Student Applications in Blackboard
Jeff Bauer
Office of Technology Integration
5/12/2005
Desired Portal Features
•Common, consistent layout and navigation
•“Right content at the right time in the right place”
•Single Sign-On with “pass-through” authentication
to other systems, using one account (“FSUID”)
•User-centric with dynamic content generation
•Unified presentation of content and services from
different systems
•Connected to FSU home page (e.g., “FSYou” link)
Existing FSU Portals: Blackboard
Existing FSU Portals: PeopleSoft
Financials, HR & BusObj
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Existing FSU Portals: FSUID
FSUID Helpdesk
One Portal Solution?
• No one portal product can deliver native
content from PeopleSoft and Blackboard
• Strategy should be to use an existing, proven
portal technology to tie together as much
content as possible.
• New FSU Home page should provide a login
button for the unified portal (e.g., re-target
“FSYou”?)
Which Portal?
• Blackboard is arguably the longest
running portal framework with the largest
user base running at FSU.
• Blackboard is well supported jointly by
ODDL and OTI.
• Blackboard’s portal framework is maturing
enough to consider it for custom content.
Secure Login
• Secure Login, AKA “Online Personalized Web
Services” is used for the majority of student
services (class schedules, registration, grades,
Financial Aid, etc.), including a number of
Student Affairs applications
• Scheduled to be within Blackboard starting May
24th, 2005
• Devolopment
(devo3.ais.fsu.edu/SecureLogin/login) & Staging
(lisa.uc.fsu.edu/SecureLogin/login) already
under Bb
Protecting Personal Information
• Replacement of SSNs by an FSU “Security
Number” (FSUSN)
• Make student email addresses not publicly
viewable (require a valid student, faculty
or staff to log into Bb first)
• Keep employee work contact still public
(http://directory.fsu.edu/search)
Used, for example, as secondary authentication for
instructors entering grades on-line
Secure Login in Blackboard
• “SSO” for all Blackboard & Secure Apps
• Secure Apps navigation is preserved
• FSUID-only authentication (no more use of
Webnames, SSNs, etc. to log in)
• Students go to one place now, instead of two
• Existing external links to Secure Login
applications will still work as-is (e.g.
studentsfirst.fsu.edu, portfolio.fsu.edu, etc.)
The Future
• Next phase: re-write Secure Login applications
to be “native” in Bb
• Move FSUID web pages into Bb
• Connect PeopleSoft authentication to Bb
• “Let’s Get Secure!”:
– Bring up Student Email search application & remove
public student email search
– Promote replacement of SSNs with FSUIDs and
FSUSNs within key student systems