Alberta Student Link

Alberta Student Link is a secure self-service website for third parties to request access to a student's digital records.

Functionality

Browser Support

Alberta Student Link is designed for the latest mainstream internet browsers; the following are the recommended browsers for Alberta Student Link:

  • Chrome
  • Firefox
  • Internet Explorer 11
  • Edge
  • Safari

If a user is using an unsupported browser to access Alberta Student Link, then they will receive the following notification:

It is recommended that one of the supported browsers is used to ensure the user can access all the features of Alberta Student Link.

Service Level Agreements

It is expected that Alberta Student Link:

  • Utilize responsive design of screens.
  • Must be scalable. For example additional resources can be brought on line and the solution will be able to utilize them to provide increased capacity.
  • Support multiple devices (mobile, desktops, tablets, etc.).
  • Be compliant with ministry web standards.
  • Support Web Accessibility standards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_accessibility)
  • Enforce that all communication must be encrypted.
  • Provide 99.9% availability1) outside of scheduled outage windows.
  • Response times on pages must be less than 750ms 80% of the time from the time PASI receives the request to the time it returns a response.

A new certificate was created for the Alberta Student Link. Details are as follows:

  • Client Name: PASI – Alberta Student Link
  • Description: This PASI Client is used by the PASI application Alberta Student Link
  • System Name: Alberta Student Link
  • Client Role(s): PASISystemUser
  • Selected Organization(s): Alberta Education [1]

With this new certificate, any audit records created will now have “Alberta Student Link” as the associated system name and “PASI – Alberta Student Link” as the client name.

1)
See wikipedia for more details