Portal Authentication Changes Launched

Late on July 24, 2017, change to Portal authentication were pushed out to all users.

In the past you simply entered your username and password into the appropriate fields and were able to log into Portal. However, where there used to be fields for your username and password you will now find a single Login button. When you click this button, you will be brought to our new central authentication server at https://cas.mlc-wels.edu. Here you will be prompted for your MLC Account username and password and upon entering those correctly and hitting LOGIN, you will be authenticated and transported back to Portal.

Here is a quick video so that you can see the new login flow:

This change has been pushed out to enable some feature enhancements across our services in the future. We are now working on enabling the same sort of login workflow for Moodle and other properties with the added benefit of needing to login once and then you will be logged in across a number of different services. While in the past you used the same username and password, in the future you will used the same username and password but only need to login once and then move between services.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Network Services and ask to talk with either Bob or Aaron.