As an additional security measure, you may choose to restrict Slate access for administrative users to only those who are on your campus network (i.e., restricts Slate access by IP address). Once enabled, users will only be able to log into Slate if...

Error messages may be encountered using your single sign-on or SSO system during the login process. If you encounter an error not found below, please feel free to ask us in one of the three related community forums: Admissions & Enrollment - Use...

Most Single Sign-On (SSO) certificates will expire and must be renewed at some point. However, Slate references your live metadata from a publicly available URL, so your IT team or SSO manager can update the certificate without assistance from Tec...

With the increasing reliance upon mobile devices for access to secure systems such as Slate, we are publishing several facts and best practices associated with the management of mobile devices with respect to Slate. Mobile devices are typically no ...

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is available directly in Slate. While we continue to recommend that multi-factor authentication (often referred to as two-factor authentication, or 2FA) be implemented at your campus single sign-on system, this secu...

Slate can act as an identity provider for integration with externally-hosted admitted student websites or other resources that you want to protect behind a Slate authentication page. Important To use Slate as an identity provider, an applicatio...

Effective September 1, 2016, we have begun displaying a warning to all Slate users who have the Grammarly browser extension installed. Grammarly is known to cause serious corruption to messages and documents created or updated using web-based HTML ...

Logging into a Slate application or status page requires the use of an email address and password. For security purposes, Slate will temporarily lock an account after 10 failed login attempts in a 30 minute period. A temporary lockout occurs if: ...