Making progress in students’ account security

Published on February 28, 2022

Information Technology

Student accounts

In the new year, Information Technology expanded the mandatory enrollment into Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to all students. In mid-February we estimate around 11000 students were enrolled to MFA out of the ~23,000 who need to register for MFA by the end of the project (end of March 2022).

The MFA deployment project in numbers

The percentage of students enrolled to MFA increased up to 72% comparing to 48% at the beginning of the project (Jan 10, 2022).

Students	Number
Total Active Students	45,000
Total Active Students Enrolled	33,093
Percentage Students Enrolled	72%

The project schedule focussed on one faculty at a time to maximize communication and support for students. This approach along with the faculties’ active collaboration, facilitated and increased the acceptance of the change as outlined in the results below:

Faculty/Group deployed	% Students enrolled to MFA (as of February 23, 2022)
Law	100.00%
Civil Law section	99.72%
Common Law section	99.91%
Special Students	93.84%
Engineering	99.71%
Education	96.12%
Medicine	89.24%
Social Sciences	82.47%

Project schedule

The students in the remaining faculties will be required to enroll into MFA in March as outlined in the project schedule below:

Faculty/Group	Tentative start date	Tentative end date
Telfer School of Management	February 28	March 4
Health Sciences	March 7	March 11
Science	March 14	March 18
Arts	March 21	March 25
Saint- Paul University	March 28	April 1

Note: Tentative dates reflect an estimate for the roll-out. Dates are subject to change based on project progress.