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Blackboard Brings Contactless Student IDs To Apple Wallet For Campuses Nationwide

WASHINGTON, DC -- Blackboard is enhancing the student ID card experience with the ability to add a student ID to Wallet on iPhone and Apple Watch. With Blackboard Mobile Credentials, student credentials in Apple Wallet offer secure access to facilities, residence halls and more, as well as payments for dining, laundry, vending and retail, creating a seamless experience while navigating campus. Washington, DC-based Blackboard says it is the first campus credential solution provider to offer NFC-enabled co...

June 13, 2018

WASHINGTON, DC -- Blackboard is enhancing the student ID card experience with the ability to add a student ID to Wallet on iPhone and Apple Watch. With Blackboard Mobile Credentials, student credentials in Apple Wallet offer secure access to facilities, residence halls and more, as well as payments for dining, laundry, vending and retail, creating a seamless experience while navigating campus.

Washington, DC-based Blackboard says it is the first campus credential solution provider to offer NFC-enabled contactless mobile IDs for iPhone and Apple Watch. This capability benefits today's college students by eliminating the need to carry and manage multiple credentials when trying to navigate the campus environment.

Using contactless credentials, students will simply present their iPhone with iOS 12 or Apple Watch with watchOS 5 to enabled readers on campus for a convenient and highly secure transaction. In addition, institutions will be able to issue (and manage) mobile credentials quickly and remotely to their students' mobile devices.

The ability to add student IDs to Wallet will launch with Duke University, the University of Alabama and the University of Oklahoma this fall. Johns Hopkins University, Santa Clara University and Temple University will bring the capability by end of year and it will expand to additional campuses in the future. These schools will leverage Blackboard's NFC-compatible equipment on their campuses to facilitate a variety of transactions, including secure access to facilities such as residence halls, the dining hall, gym, library or campus events and for making payments at the bookstore, for laundry or off campus where student IDs are accepted.