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Hi Nigel, You probably already know these issues... 1) The students from the "another institution" will still need user accounts and enrolments pre-created in your BB before they can login. Hence you will need to run snapshots (or some other batch account creation process) based on a data-feed from the other institutions user/student system(s). There is NO "just-in-time" creation of the accounts based on shib attributes. So it's kinda just shib for shib's own sake (at this stage) you still need full system integration with the other institutions user management systems. 2) Internally within Blackboard the usernames of both instructions share the same space, so there is the potential for username clashes (not with Shib obviously but with the snapshot to create the user accounts). 3) Web Folders in the CMS do not work for Shib authenticated users 4) Direct access login does not work with shib authentication. I imagine BB will develop the Shib stuff further at some stage so that accounts and enrolments can be created based on shib attributes passed at login time, but that is not the case just yet. HTH Cathy Colless VLE Application Manager e-Learning Development Team Projects Office Raymond Burton Library University of York York YO10 5DD United Kingdom Email: [log in to unmask] Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 1140 Fax: +44 (0)1904 32 1130 http://vlesupport.york.ac.uk -----Original Message----- From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Frost N.J. Sent: 17 December 2007 14:26 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Shibboleth with Blackboard Hi, I'm just starting on a project to implement Shibboleth authentication for Blackboard, specifically for students from another institution. I've got a bit of learning to do on the Shibboleth side, but there is one question that particularly concerns me... Is it possible to maintain the current LDAP/AD authentication for internal students, while at the same time providing Shibboleth WAYF for a few external students? If we have to move all access to Shibboleth, that will massively increase the scope of the project. Is it feasible to simply provide a different URL for the Shibboleth route? Has anyone had any experience of this? Regards, Nigel ________________________________ Nigel Frost Project Manager Information Systems Services University of Southampton SOUTHAMPTON SO17 1BJ email: [log in to unmask] phone: 023 8059 8826 (ext 28826) ________________________________