eduroam Visitor Access
Smooth, cost-effective connectivity for visitors associated with research and education – using your existing eduroam service.
About eduroam Visitor Access
In HE and FE, you often need to offer temporary connectivity to visitors associated with education or research – such as guest speakers, conference delegates, summer school students, and visitors from schools and colleges.
If you have eduroam, then eduroam Visitor Access is a cost-effective way to offer a smooth connectivity experience for associates who don’t have accounts of their own.
How can eduroam Visitor Access help you?
It allows you to offer temporary credentials to the eduroam network already deployed on your campus. It can help you to:
Save money and time
Helps you reduce the burden on IT while remaining an affordable, cost-effective option.
- Reduce burden on the IT team - the service is designed to be ‘zero touch’ for IT managers, with non-IT staff able to add and remove eduroam Visitor Access accounts via a self-service web portal
- Accounts are time-limited, and automatically deactivate when the time limit is reached – reducing security concerns while saving the effort of removing accounts manually
- More affordable than a dedicated network - the service can save you money and time compared to deploying a dedicated wireless network for each event on your campus. You simply pay an annual charge
Offer a smooth experience to visitors
- The flexible, self-service web portal allows you to create user credentials singly or in bulk
- A personalised process - tailor how you issue credentials to delegates for a specific event. If you have an existing relationship with your campus visitors – such as pre-booked delegates to a conference – you could deliver credentials in advance via text or email
- No splash pages - instead of making visitors connect via a splash page repeatedly, you can give them seamless access to eduroam for as long as their credentials are valid
Read the accessibility statement for the eduroam visitor access portal.
Related services - visitor access
At Jisc, we help you provide internet access to campus visitors in other ways:
- eduroam
Offer federated, roaming internet access to staff and students from other eduroam-enabled organisations – as your users get roaming internet access at their sites - Govroam
With govroam, you can simplify connectivity for members of the wider public sector visiting your campus – including NHS, social care and blue-light workers. The service also helps support collaboration with the public sector - eduroam Visitor Access
This lies ‘in between’ federated roaming and general public access, helping you provide access to people without their own eduroam accounts but who are associated in some way with your organisation’s education goals - Trust and identity consultancy
Our bespoke trust and identity consultancy can help you overcome hurdles and realise the long-term benefits of federated services, such as as eduroam and govroam
At Jisc, we help you provide internet access to campus visitors in other ways:
- eduroam
Offer federated, roaming internet access to staff and students from other eduroam-enabled organisations – as your users get roaming internet access at their sites - Govroam
With govroam, you can simplify connectivity for members of the wider public sector visiting your campus – including NHS, social care and blue-light workers. The service also helps support collaboration with the public sector - eduroam Visitor Access
This lies ‘in between’ federated roaming and general public access, helping you provide access to people without their own eduroam accounts but who are associated in some way with your organisation’s education goals - Trust and identity consultancy
Our bespoke trust and identity consultancy can help you overcome hurdles and realise the long-term benefits of federated services, such as as eduroam and govroam
How we support visitors to your campus
Our access and roaming services work in combination or align to support users of differing needs.
eduroam and Govroam can be "overlaid" for organisations that support staff from education, research and the public sector.
eduroam Visitor Access lies in between federated roaming and public wifi for general public access, helping you provide access to people without their own eduroam accounts but who are associated in some way with your organisation’s education goals.
Our access and roaming services work in combination or align to support users of differing needs.
eduroam and Govroam can be "overlaid" for organisations that support staff from education, research and the public sector.
eduroam Visitor Access lies in between federated roaming and public wifi for general public access, helping you provide access to people without their own eduroam accounts but who are associated in some way with your organisation’s education goals.
eduroam(UK) privacy notice for eduroam Visitor Access end users
The organisation you are visiting and at which you are using the eduroam Visitor Access (eVA) service collects some basic data about you in order to provide you with eduroam guest access. If you are using the self-service SMS request system your mobile phone number will be used to send you your eVA guest access credentials.
The organisation you are visiting is the data controller for your details and will publish a privacy notice to advise you about what data is collected and what it is used for.
The privacy notice published here augments the notice published at the site you are visiting and describes how data is utilised for the provision of network connectivity to you through the eduroam service and in addition how data is utilised for the provision of eduroam access credentials through the eduroam Visitor Access service.
Standard privacy terms that apply to the use of the eduroam service can be found on the eduroam page.
eduroam Visitor Access privacy terms - in addition to the standard eduroam(UK) privacy terms, since eduroam(UK) (aka 'Jisc') processes the data that the organisation you are visiting collects/you provide for the purpose of generating guest access credentials for you, the following should be noted:
eduroam(UK) (aka 'Jisc') acts as the eduroam IdP (for the purpose of providing you with guest credentials: username and password). The IdP function requires the identity of the user for whom the guest account is created to be recorded and retained for a reasonable period of time for security and compliance with acceptable use policies.
Depending on the credentials provisioning method being used, the personal details collected about you may include one or more of: name, e-mail address, mobile phone number. This data is collected and retained solely for the purpose of delivering the service to you. This data will be retained for a period of 6 months after expiry of your guest account.
The organisation you are visiting and at which you are using the eduroam Visitor Access (eVA) service collects some basic data about you in order to provide you with eduroam guest access. If you are using the self-service SMS request system your mobile phone number will be used to send you your eVA guest access credentials.
The organisation you are visiting is the data controller for your details and will publish a privacy notice to advise you about what data is collected and what it is used for.
The privacy notice published here augments the notice published at the site you are visiting and describes how data is utilised for the provision of network connectivity to you through the eduroam service and in addition how data is utilised for the provision of eduroam access credentials through the eduroam Visitor Access service.
Standard privacy terms that apply to the use of the eduroam service can be found on the eduroam page.
eduroam Visitor Access privacy terms - in addition to the standard eduroam(UK) privacy terms, since eduroam(UK) (aka 'Jisc') processes the data that the organisation you are visiting collects/you provide for the purpose of generating guest access credentials for you, the following should be noted:
eduroam(UK) (aka 'Jisc') acts as the eduroam IdP (for the purpose of providing you with guest credentials: username and password). The IdP function requires the identity of the user for whom the guest account is created to be recorded and retained for a reasonable period of time for security and compliance with acceptable use policies.
Depending on the credentials provisioning method being used, the personal details collected about you may include one or more of: name, e-mail address, mobile phone number. This data is collected and retained solely for the purpose of delivering the service to you. This data will be retained for a period of 6 months after expiry of your guest account.