Identity Automation
Overview
- Overview
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Identity Automation's RapidIdentity is an education-focused identity and access management platform. It uses student, staff, guardian, contractor, and other identity data to automate account creation and removal, deliver role-based single sign-on, apply multi-factor authentication, manage access requests, and distribute class rosters to connected applications.
Enrollment, employment, and role changes become access decisions here. SIS and HR owners supply the underlying facts, while technology staff translate those facts into accounts, groups, and application permissions. An account, an application permission, and a class membership are different relationships. Their source, timing, and approval determine what a person can actually do after signing in.
A transfer, departure, or duplicate identity can affect several applications at once. District teams coordinate matching, authorization, update timing, and exceptions across the deployed connections. Sign-in, account creation, and roster sharing are related processes with different purposes; understanding each boundary helps explain why access may succeed in one service and fail in another.
Features
- Features
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Identity lifecycle
- Creates, updates, disables, and removes accounts based on changes in connected SIS, HR, directory, and other authoritative systems.
- Applies role and policy rules to students, employees, substitutes, guardians, contractors, and other district users.
Single sign-on and authentication
- Provides personalized SSO portals for cloud and on-premises applications using standards such as SAML, OAuth, and OpenID Connect.
- Supports MFA methods suited to different users, including QR codes, pictographs, one-time passwords, push authentication, FIDO keys, and compatible Duo workflows.
Rostering and application data
- Synchronizes course, section, teacher, and student data from the SIS to learning applications.
- Supports OneRoster and a catalog of application integrations while giving districts control over the attributes shared with each vendor.
Directories and connected systems
- Connects with Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, LDAP, web services, databases, files, and other supported targets.
- Can combine identity information from multiple source systems through RapidIdentity FusionID and extend integrations through adapters or APIs.
Governance and security
- Supports access requests, approvals, temporary access, orphan-account detection, audit trails, and access reviews.
- Can monitor exposed credentials and apply policies that remove access promptly when a role or enrollment changes.
Student Data Privacy
- Student Data Privacy
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Company News
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Interoperability
Sign-on, rostering, and file exchange methods
Learning Management System Connectivity
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