Authentify is rolling out a solution that would verify the identity of remote students using voice biometrics. U.S. education institutions are expanding their remote learning programs nationwide but grappling with federal mandates to prove online students are actually taking courses and tests.

The product provides an end-to-end voice biometrics and mobile phone-based identity verification service customized for educational institutions’ remote learning programs. xFA replaces passwords with a mobile xFA app that scans an on-screen, short-lived cryptograph–a digital image – that activates a public key infrastructure digital certificate for strong authentication and turns a smart phone into a authenticator.

Authentify Educational Services include voice biometric client applications for mobile phones, a secure out-of-band network connection and an identity verification and authentication service that is easily integrated into any distance learning program.

Authentify is demonstrating the new services for at the Sloan Consortium International Conference on Online Learning, Nov. 20-22 in Orlando, Fla.

The Yashwantrao Chavan College, run by the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC), will issue smart ID cards to 1,000 students admitted for the academic year 2013-14, according to The Times of India.

The smart ID cards will help students access books from the college libraries and aid staff by enabling automatic data entry into software when students file exam-related applications, apart from functioning as an university identity card.

The new smart identity cards will be used for multiple purposes and provide detailed information on students: contacts, addresses, year of admission, admission number, blood groups and academic results of students will be stored in the smart cards.

Every student would be given a card with a unique number, which when entered into the software would help to get detailed information about the student cardholder. The cards would be updated from periodically with latest information about exam details, score cards and campus fines issued to students as well as attendance.

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