Overview

Compass ID cards can be used with external services that have allowed integration with Compass. When allowed, a student's CompassIdentity card can be used as a method of confirming identity when previously an additional card would have been required.  For example in certain regions CompassIdentity cards can be used within the public library system in place of a separate library card. 

In order to use CompassIdentity cards with third party systems permission must be given to share information with the other party, parents must give permission for their students through the parent portal.  Parents should log in to Compass using the login details provided by the school for their parent account, this cannot be done from the student's account. For further information on getting your parents logging in to Compass and how to provide them with their login details, please see the Knowledge Base article titled 'Distributing Parent Login Account Details'.
Once a parent logs into Compass they will be on their home screen, pictured below. They will need to hover over the Tools menu (cog icon) at the top right and click 'My CompassIdentity Card' from the drop-down menu.
     

This will take the parent to the CompassIdentity page. This is where they would go to order their child a new ID card to replace a lost one, as well as to check on the status of previously ordered cards. 

At the bottom of this screen is a section titled 'Externally Linked Card Services'. Within this section will be listed any services that are available for the students associated with this account. The parent will see a line for each partner service for each of their students at the school. In the example below the parent has two students at the school and the school has only added one Externally Linked Card Service - the "Eastern Regional Library Corporation".



In order to give permission for Compass to share the user's details with the Partner Service the parent will need to click the tick box for the row under the Permission column. If the box was previously unticked this will open a pop-up window that will display the details of what this partner service will allow once permission has been given, as well as the terms of use.



In order to activate the service the parent will need to tick the "I have read and agree to the terms of use..." tickbox, and click 'Save'.

If the parent has previously given permission for a service and wish to remove it they can do so by clicking on the marked tickbox. This will open a popup asking them to confirm that they want to remove permission for the linked service.

Please keep in mind that synchronisation from Compass to the external system is only done once per day, so users should wait 24 hours from allowing the service before attempting to use it.