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UTORGrouper

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Overview and Key Features:

UTORGrouper is the controlling authority for groups at UofT. Grouper simplifies group management by allowing you to delegate group management or visibility. Grouper enables you to manage your unit’s access groups centrally and have them flow to other services.

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If you’re an application administrator and need help connecting to Grouper, email utorgrouper.admin@utoronto.ca to create an ESC ticket. You’ll get an autoreply with a link to the ticket.

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Grouper currently handles approximately 100 applications, with many more expected to be added over time. Your first point of contact for help is the application administrators or your help desk.

If you’re an application administrator and need help connecting to Grouper, email utorgrouper.admin@utoronto.ca to create an ESC ticket.

UTORid

Overview and Key Features:

The UTORid (along with a password) is a user identifier used to access many University of Toronto services. Some applications requiring the UTORid include:

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To troubleshoot issues with your JOINid or UTORid, see articles on the Help Desk Knowledge Base before contacting support.

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Institutional Identity Services (UTORauth)

Authentication - Free computer icons   Overview and Key Features:

UTORauth is the University of Toronto’s authorization and authentication database. It is the central capability for managing identities and role-based access authorization to U of T resources.

UTORauth works in three ways:

  1. Identification – each person with a relationship to U of T is given central identifiers.
  2. Authentication – UTORauth uses identifiers, such as the UTORid, for validation.
  3. Authorization – UTORauth determines what users are authorized to do based on their roles.

For detailed information about UTORauth functionality, see the Enterprise Service Centre (ESC) article “UTORauth: How it works”.

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Administrative tools

UTORauth provides a set of tools for administrative staff to manage and obtain lists of UTORids and barcodes. An overview of these tools, as well as further information specific to each tool, is located in the ESC Knowledge Base article “UTORauth: Administrative tools”.

Resources

For more details about UTORauth, refer to “UTORauth: How it works”.

For information about UTORable, see “UTORable LDAP service”.

Question mark - Free communications icons   Get Help:

For UTORauth inquiries or technical support, email utorauth@utoronto.ca to create an ESC ticket.

UTORMFA

Product overview - Free business icons   Overview and Key Features:

UTORMFA is the University of Toronto’s multi-factor authentication solution. It verifies your identity using a second factor, like a mobile device or hardware token, to ensure that only you can log in to your account. Users must self-enrol in UTORMFA to access University web services, such as academic course selection.

All students, staff and faculty must enrol in DUO multi-factor authentication in order to access University web systems. Online self-enrolment takes 5-10 minutes and requires you to have a smartphone nearby with an active phone number.

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Get Help:

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For End Users:

Learn about UTORMFA on the Enterprise Service Centre (ESC).

For Staff:

University staff seeking UTORMFA integration with their systems may find additional guides on ESC: