User provisioning is an essential aspect of identity and access management (IAM) that involves creating, managing, and deleting user accounts in an organization's IT systems. In the context of school districts, user provisioning is particularly crucial as it ensures...
This blog will cover multiple aspects of building an access control model based on Role Based Access Control (RBAC) and Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC). This includes steps needed to role mine and analyze access permissions across multiple systems, review what...
In today's digital age, identity management and user provisioning have become critical to ensuring students' personal identifiable information (PII) security and privacy in schools. With the increasing amount of sensitive data being collected and stored digitally,...
The education sector has undergone a colossal digital revolution over the last two years. After the COVID-19 outbreak, colleges and schools had to quickly pivot how they approached learning delivery, moving from the classroom, in-person lessons to eLearning modules...
Automated Identity and Access Management (IAM) is key to securely and promptly providing employees and students with the proper access rights to accomplish their daily tasks. While you might not initially think you need an automated IAM solution in your school or...
Learning and technology go together as it has become apparent that technology is an effective way to engage students. However, technology introduces challenges to the classroom such as cost, administration and ease of use; particularly for younger students or those...
As summer is upon us, not everyone in your school district is looking forward to a relaxing few months. System Admins often need to prepare for the new school year by making all the appropriate changes to their network. Hundreds of students need to be added and have...
It’s well known that for some time both Microsoft and Google provide free email hosting services for “.edu” domains, but it’s not until recently that the playing field has leveled off. Google has arguably had the advantage since the beginning due to the fact that even...
The pace of technology today is rapid, and student bodies continue to embrace it at an exponential pace creating an ever increasing demand for internet based services crossing many different areas of the organizational structure. Ask any student or faculty member how...
Google continues to roll out their services to all iOS devices which have been extremely beneficial for educators. However with the various synching and performance issues that have been slowly creeping to the surface, will the iPhone 6 pose a problem for the help...
PowerSchool is a trusted market leader in the education industry that offers a scalable, end-to-end student information system (SIS). Designed for administrators and teachers respectively, PowerSchool SIS is quick to navigate for daily tasks in just a few clicks,...