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The CCC SSO Initiative provides single sign-on capabilities capability to colleges and districts allowing their student population to authenticate to secure web applications such as MyPath, CCCAssess, Course Exchange, or Canvas, using the same login credentials used to log into other services at the college or district.
- Single sign-on is achieved by
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- implementing a SAML2 compliant Identity Provider - such as Shibboleth, PortalGuard or the Ellucian Identity Service.
- MyPath, CCCAssess, and Canvas are statewide initiatives that require a common identifier for students that may attend multiple community colleges.
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- The CCCID, the statewide student identifier established in OpenCCC is the common identifier that will be used across initiatives.
The CCCID
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.
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The following demos illustrate the student user experience when they pass through the SSO Proxy to access a secure CCC web application, depending on the college's ability to pass a CCCID as a SAML attribute.
These particular scenarios focus on a student logging into MyPath from a College website, but the same experience would be true for Common Assessment or Canvas, Canvas, or any other CCC web application.
Video 1: Various Student Experiences with the SSO Proxy
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