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Single sign-on is achieved by colleges or districts implementing a SAML2 compliant Identity Provider such as Shibboleth, PortalGuard or the Ellucian Identity Service.
MyPath, Common Assessment, Canvass are statewide initiatives that require a common identifier for students that may attend multiple community colleges. The CCCID, the statewide student identifier established in OpenCCC is the common identifier that will be used across initiatives.
Use of the CCCID requires that colleges or districts pass the CCCID to MyPath, Canvas etc as a SAML attribute in the authorization request from their SAML identity provider.
Colleges that participate in CCCApply have the capability of downloading a CCCID as part of the application download process for a student. Many colleges that download the CCCID from CCCApply store the CCCID in the student's SIS or Active Directory account which allows them to easily pass CCCID as a SAML attribute. College that do not use Apply, colleges with students that applied previously to or outside of CCCApply, or colleges that choose not to store the CCCID are unable to pass the CCCID as a SAML attribute.
Because the CCCID is a requirement for participating in the statewide initiatives, the SSO proxy was introduced as a means to associate a CCCID with a Identity Provider authorization request when the CCCID is not available to the college at authorization time.
This CCCID achieved by the SSO proxy intercepting the authorization request, determining if a CCCID was passed as a SAML attribute, and prompting the student to either create a new or recover an existing OpenCCC account if a CCCID was not included in the request.
The CCC online initiatives such as MyPath, Common Assessment require
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