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Comment: Added a better description of the InCommon Federation and how it works. There's some terminology in there that is probably new to many people.
  • Lehigh is a member of the InCommon Federation. Through    InCommon, 's Participants (member institutions) operate Identity Providers ' such as Lehigh University, provide users from other member institutions single sign-on (SSO) convenience and privacy protection to internet Service Providers.  (IdPs - network-accessible services that authenticate users and provide identity information, according to local policy, about Service Providers' current users) and Service Providers (SPs - network-accessible services that rely on information from IdPs for the purpose of making access decisions and/or personalizing the user’s experience).  Lehigh's IdP is located at https://sso.cc.lehigh.edu/sso, and there are over 4000 SPs within the InCommon federation.   Some examples of SPs popular at Lehigh are Course Site (our moodle based Learning Management system), G Suite, the qualtrics survey tool, and zoom (web conferencing).
  • In addition to SSO, InCommon also coordinates eduroam, a wireless service between educational institutions.  See https://lts.lehigh.edu/services/eduroam-wireless-access for instructions on using eduroam with your Lehigh account.

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