A Growing Market for Student Online Identification

The traditional role of identification as a means to uniquely link a person to a document that bestows rights and privileges is being expanded to grant access to all types of government and commercial services.

A recent article on Security Boulevard explains why online student identity verification has become more popular as a quick and secure method of verifying student IDs and a cost-effective approach to onboarding new students.

The rapidly disappearing manual and paper-based student verification procedures are neither scalable nor practical for educational institutions. They frequently lead to lost student records, protracted search times, verification mistakes leading to inaccurate student records, low productivity for administrators, and significant storage costs.

To overcome these problems, a variety of technologies are being deployed to digitise online student identity verification. Although commercial solutions differ, the primary steps of online identity verification are: