Aura
The Aura Online Connector integrates Aura Online as a target system with your source systems through the HelloID Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution from Tools4ever. The connector automates the management of accounts and access rights in Aura Online, eliminating manual effort, increasing efficiency, and preventing human errors. This article provides more information about the Aura Online Target Connector, its capabilities, and the benefits it delivers.
What is Aura Online
Aura Online is a library application developed by Aura Software that supports the management and lending of various types of media and documentation. The solution runs entirely in the cloud. Aura Online includes a catalog that supports the management of your media collection and allows both students and teachers to search for content. Media can be grouped into themes and displayed in the corresponding app. Aura Online also supports lending administration and enables the creation of lists, reports, letters, and overviews based on available media.
Why is an Aura Online Integration Useful?
Before a student or teacher can use Aura Online, you must create an account, referred to as a borrower, for that user in Aura Online. HelloID automates this process by connecting your source system to Aura Online. This provides several benefits: HelloID ensures that a student or teacher gains access to the school library from the very first day of the school year, increases efficiency through automation, reduces the error-prone nature of manually copying data, and ensures that newly created accounts always contain the correct information.
Using the Aura Online connector, you can connect Aura Online through HelloID to systems including:
- Magister
- Eduarte
- Somtoday
More information about these integrations can be found later in this article.
The HelloID Aura Online Integration Helps You With
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Accelerated account provisioning: HelloID automatically detects changes in your source system and creates a borrower in Aura Online based on those changes. This ensures that new students or teachers can access Aura Online from their very first day.
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Error-free account management: The connection HelloID establishes between your source system and Aura Online ensures error-free account management. The IAM solution monitors your source system closely and automatically updates borrowers in Aura Online based on changes in your source system, keeping accounts in Aura Online current and consistent with your source system at all times.
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Improved service levels and stronger security: The integration between your source system and Aura Online elevates your service level by ensuring that new students and teachers always have access to Aura Online at the right time, guaranteeing they can access the media they need and increasing user satisfaction. At the same time, the integration strengthens security by ensuring that offboarded students and teachers no longer have access to Aura Online, since the integration automatically removes borrowers.
How HelloID Integrates with Aura Online
Aura Online connects to HelloID as a target system. The Aura Online Target Connector uses the Aura API for this purpose. The integration uses a generic LMS SOAP/XML definition to transport the Aura account to Aura. The Aura API has a single endpoint that receives all SOAP messages. The account data model of Aura does not align with the data model of the student information system. HelloID automatically performs the necessary translation, which simplifies field mapping.
Creating accounts in Aura Online
Through the integration with Aura Online, HelloID automatically creates an account in Aura Cloud for new students and teachers. This ensures students and teachers always have access to Aura Online and the media they require. It also prevents errors that can arise from manually copying data.
Managing accounts
The IAM solution takes over the management of accounts and borrowers. When a user's data changes, HelloID automatically updates the information in Aura Cloud. When a student or teacher is offboarded, HelloID deactivates the corresponding borrower in Aura Online. This eliminates manual account management, prevents accounts from remaining unnecessarily active, and keeps your database clean.
Custom Data Exchange
When integrating Aura Online with source systems through HelloID, you decide which information to include. The connector supports a wide range of fields, including name, city, phone number, email address, location, class number, and date of birth, as well as the user principal name, borrower name (birth name), and password. It is also possible to set an expiration date, which automatically deactivates the account.
Connecting Aura Online with Systems via HelloID
You can connect a range of source systems to Aura Online through HelloID, including:
- Magister to Aura Online integration: With the Magister to Aura Online integration, HelloID automatically creates and manages the correct borrowers in Aura Online based on data from Magister. At the start of a new school year, the IAM solution creates accounts in Aura Online for all new students. Mid-year enrollees also receive immediate access to Aura Online. HelloID continuously monitors Magister and automatically updates accounts in Aura Online based on changes.
- Somtoday to Aura Online integration: The Somtoday to Aura Online integration seamlessly connects the Aura Online library software to your student administration and tracking system. This ensures that access to Aura Online is automatically adjusted based on changes in your student records. HelloID ensures through this integration that students always have access to Aura Online and that access is revoked in a timely manner for students who have been offboarded.
HelloID supports more than 200 connectors, enabling you to connect the Tools4ever IAM solution to virtually all popular source and target systems. A complete overview of connectors is available on our website.
