General Architecture Overview The Sunshine Connections implementation for the Florida Department of Education combines several Microsoft technologies to provide a single portal with essential tools for teachers to improve the quality and efficiency related activities and processes.
Database management overview, data sources, and longitudinal data The primary objective of the Sunshine Connections Data Warehouse is to bring together information from disparate sources and put the information into a format that is conducive to making strategic educational decisions for all Sunshine Connections stakeholders.
User experience through Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 technologies The user interface (UI) of Sunshine Connections is implemented using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The first release of Sunshine Connections will contain core Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) analysis functionality for teachers to see longitudinal student performance data for each student.
Identity management – Active Directory Internet Admin Tool (ADAT)
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User interface Learn about the screens, actions, database tables, Web services and stored procedures used in the implementation of the Active Directory Internet Admin Tool (ADAT) interface.
Password generator Learn about the classes, subsystems, and configurations used in the implementation of the Password Generator. The business logic of the Password Generator is implemented as and works with components of the Sunshine Connections architecture system.
Identity management – Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
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ADFS Overview In developing the identity and access management strategy for Sunshine Connections, the FL-DOE understood that requiring individual school districts to maintain duplicate user credentials is not always desired. Leveraging the existing Active Directory infrastructure in each school district for user authentication alleviates users from having to remember another user ID and password.
District ADFS design To facilitate identity management, the Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS) is being introduced into the Sunshine Connections forest to facilitate district-level user authentication and state-level resource authorization.
design.pdf (180 KB, Portable Document Format file) design.xps (643 KB, XML Paper Specification)
Physical design The password management application will be implemented using ASP.Net to make ADSI calls to make password changes in the Sunshine Connections Active Directory, and to store "secret questions" and a hash of the users' answers to those questions in a SQL Server database.
Application The goal of this document is to describe the constructors, classes, methods and properties used in the implementation of the Account Maintenance application.
Identity management – Flexible Authorization System (FAS R1)
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FAS overview The Flexible Authorization System (FAS) was created based on a need identified by Florida school districts to map district staff members to students and groups of students so those staff members could access student information.
User interface This is the user interface design document for the Sunshine Connections FAS R1 Tool. The goal of this document is to describe the various screens and backend database interaction. The business logic of the FAS v1 interface is implemented as and works with components of the Sunshine Connections architecture system.
