1.0 Introducing the Identity Manager Driver for SIF

Managing student and staff accounts manually in a K-12 school system can be a time-consuming job for an administrator. Support time and opportunities for human error are multiplied during the influx of students at the beginning of the year, the changes in student enrollment or staff employment throughout the school year, and the end-of-year issues such as disabling accounts or moving students to reflect a school or grade change.

The Identity Manager Driver for Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) lets you automatically synchronize student, faculty, and staff data in K-12, SIF-enabled applications with user objects in the Identity Vault. Using the driver for managing user accounts provides a great return on investment.

A configuration file is provided for provisioning students and staff, using the Student Information System as the authoritative data source. You can also customize the configuration.