InCommon Case Studies

New! InCommon Provides Platform for National Student Clearinghouse

The National Student Clearinghouse and Stanford University successfully federate the Student Self-Service application. By defining the necessary attributes, the pilot has paved the way for other colleges and universities. (April 2010)

New! CSUconnect, 23 Campuses Adopt InCommon

To access local resources, system resources, and third-party applications, the campuses of the California State University system have adopted InCommon. (April 2010)

Lafayette Federates Ticketing Function with UniversityTickets

Lafayette sought to provide student only tickets to campus events through an agreement with UniversityTickets. The Dean of Students office worked with the company, but ran up against the challenge of providing user IDs and passwords for all 2,300-plus students. (Sept. 2009)

Washington, StudentsOnly Federate Enrollment Verification

StudentsOnly needs to verify that a potential customer is a student, and the University of Washington wanted a pain-free way to do so. Federation was the answer. (Sept. 2009)

Federating an Outsourced Human Resources Service

NYU introduced PeopleAdmin to the benefits of federating, providing HR with an outsourced solution and leveraging NYU's identity management system.
(April 2009)

Federating Makes ScienceDirect Available from Anywhere

Moss Landing Marine Lab has researchers and students all over the world. Federating with ScienceDirect means access to key library resources from anywhere.
(April 2009)

Dreamspark Student Verification Through InCommon

When Microsoft needed a way to verify student enrollment, the company chose InCommon and federation as the best solution.

Apple, InCommon Complete Pilot to Federate iTunes U

Through the use of the InCommon Federation, universities can use Shibboleth to authenticate their students, releasing only the necessary information to provide access to the course materials, and Apple will authorize access to the appropriate iTunes U content.

Small Colleges Benefit from Federated Services

The benefits of federation are not limited to research universities with large IT staffs. Using InCommon and federating software, small colleges can also extend their reach and the services they provide.

VIVA Library Consortium Federates PBS Video Content

The Virginia library consortium, VIVA, licensed the rights in perpetuity for more than 500 hours of video content from the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). By using the federation, the videos are located in, and streamed from, one location, but accessible to all 70 VIVA institutions.

UCTrust Federation Built on InCommon

By building a federation on top of InCommon, UCTrust provides system wide applications and services to 10 campuses, five medical centers and three national research laboratories, saving the university time and money.

Federating Simplifies Access to Symplicity Career Services

Penn State chose Symplicity for its on-line job posting and on-campus interviewing system. After using the software for a year without federated single sign-on, the university simplified matters by federating, and watched calls for ID and password help virtually disappear.

Federating WebAssign Saves Time, Effort

WebAssign stopped managing user accounts for its homework delivery system and focused on its applications. Faculty stopped entering and updating class roster information and focused on teaching. Its a federating win-win.