Verify users from Office For Students
Office For Students is a member of UK federation, one of the national research and education federations that share academic identity providers through eduGAIN. That means you can verify a user's affiliation with Office For Students by having them sign in with their Office For Students account via SAML single sign-on — no document uploads, no passwords, no identity data stored on Studid.
- Persistent identifiers
- No
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Federation
- UK federation
Institution details
- Organization
- Office For Students
- Description
- Office For Students
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Website
- http://www.hefce.ac.uk/
- SAML Entity ID
https://hefce-shib.hefce.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth- Federation
- UK federation
SAML capabilities
Capabilities are read from the institution's SAML metadata. An advertised format is what the IdP declares it supports — not a guarantee of what every login returns.
- support
- technical
Frequently asked questions
Can I verify that someone is affiliated with Office For Students?
Yes. Office For Students participates in UK federation, which shares academic identity providers through eduGAIN. Users prove their affiliation by signing in with their Office For Students account via SAML single sign-on — no document uploads, no passwords, no identity data stored on Studid.
Does Office For Students support persistent identifiers?
No. Office For Students only advertises transient (per-login) identifiers, so authIdentifier will typically be null. You can still confirm which institution the user logged in from via entityId.
Which country is Office For Students in?
Office For Students is located in United Kingdom.
How do I verify students from Office For Students?
Create a verification session via POST /v2/auth/verification, redirect the user to the returned link, and poll GET /v2/auth/verification/{id} after they authenticate at Office For Students. The integration guide has a complete walkthrough.
Ready to verify users from Office For Students?
Start the demo and authenticate with Office For Students, or read the integration guide to wire it up in minutes.