Best practices

This page gives an overview of best practices – practical examples that clarify what SURFfederatie actually does. These best practices are written in Dutch.

Service provider: Maastricht University

In collaboration with four other universities, Maastricht University provides the Progress Test Feedback System (ProF). This enables medical students at these universities to access the results of their progress tests online. It is a simple matter for them to log in via SURFfederatie using their institutional user name and password.
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Google Apps via SURFfederatie

Google provides Google Apps for Education via SURFfederatie. The various ins and outs were discussed during a webinar on 15 April 2010. View the SURFnet PowerPoint presentation.
You can also read the recommendations for providing Google Apps via SURFfederatie.

Identity provider: Delft University of Technology

With SURFfederatie, Delft University of Technology gives students and employees easier, securer, and cheaper online access to more third-party services. It also facilitates collaboration with other universities.
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Identity provider: Fontys Universities of Applied Sciences

Fontys Universities of Applied Sciences aims to give its students and employees a rich ICT environment, with a large number of third-party services. Using SURFfederatie had major advantages right from the start, and the more providers that join up, the easier things will become.
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Service provider: “Voorlichtingssysteem” Student Information System

What does SURFfederatie mean for a small-scale service provider? At Voorlichtingssysteem they now have a lot of experience with SURFfederatie and they say it’s trouble free.
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Service provider: Elsevier

There are few companies that play such a major role in the provision of scientific and scholarly information as Elsevier. It is therefore no wonder that this academic publisher is involved in a large number of federations. But none of them works as well as SURFfederatie!
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Tailor-made work at SURFSPOT.NL

The SURFSPOT.NL webshop has recently started offering licences and products to specific groups of users. Architecture students, for example, can purchase a product like AutoCAD at a favourable price. A tailor-made offer like this is possible thanks to SURFfederatie.
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