Non-Technical Approaches
- Contact your Human Resources (HR) personnel to enter collaborators into Workday as nonemployees. Sponsored nonemployees can be assigned various privileges, and having them tracked in the system ensures compliance with policies like FERPAFERPA The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) is a federal law which pertains to the release of and access to educational records. and HIPAA.
- For Wi-Fi access, review the Wi-Fi Access for Visitors and Sponsored Visitor Network Access sections on the Wireless Networks (Wi-Fi) page.
Technical Approaches
- Identity Federation: Configure your application to join an identity federation that includes both UT Austin and the collaborator’s home institution.
- Multiple Identity Providers: Set up your application to support multiple identity providers , allowing collaborators to authenticate with credentials from their home institution.
Both approaches prevent collaborators from needing new credentials but require technical support from your application.