The way that students, faculty, and staff sign into Northeastern sites and services with university accounts is getting a new look later this year, resulting in a simpler and streamlined experience.
Today, there are multiple sign-on experiences for Northeastern accounts. The various choices can cause confusion about the right way to log in for particular services, as well as frustration if you get it wrong. At the same time, as you navigate various sites—your @northeastern.edu email, the Student and Employee Hubs, Canvas, and others—you may need to log in or verify a Duo push multiple times.
1Login is the campaign to bring greater simplicity to Northeastern’s single sign-on (SSO) experience, moving SSO to Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory platform. It helps solve some of the biggest challenges with account logins and provides a single, improved login experience.
In addition to making login simpler and easier, the project is expected to improve overall security for Northeastern accounts and take the university one step closer to a password-less future. Password-less verification methods, such as secure biometrics and authenticator apps, would replace complex and hard-to-remember passwords. They’re the more secure way of the future.
The transition to the new login experience will happen gradually over the course of 2023 as Northeastern sites and services are migrated.
The first services are expected to move over early summer 2023 and include email and the rest of the M365 suite, the Hubs, Adobe, Miro, and Smartsheet, among others. Once they’re moved, the look of the login screens and steps for these services will be different from what they are today. There’ll also be fewer prompts to log in while navigating across the Northeastern digital ecosystem. As the migration approaches, more information will be available to help you prepare.
Other sites and services will follow in the months ahead, and the 1Login website will share the progress of the transition.
Continue to check in regularly for the latest updates on the sites and services you use for learning, teaching, work, and other day-to-day university activities.