Students at Purdue University will experience faster and easier access to school premises and services, thanks to Apple. The educational institution recently announced that Purdue University will allow their students to get their digital student IDs using the Apple Wallet app. With this, students can now use their iPhones and Apple Watches to flash their IDs without having to keep a physical card.
Student ID on Apple Wallet Will Allow Easier Access to University Premises
As reported by MacRumors, Purdue University students can now use their Apple devices to access campus buildings and cafeterias. They can also use the digital IDs on their Apple Wallet to buy meals, avail of laundry services and do other transactions within the campus. It will be easier for students now to enter dormitories, bookstores, libraries and gyms in and out of the university by simply displaying their iPhones and Apple Watches.
Students can get their digital IDs in the Transact eAccounts app for the undergraduate students of the West Lafayette, Indiana campus. It should be noted that current students can use both their physical and digital IDs, but incoming undergraduate students can use only their digital IDs as they will no longer be issued plastic ID cards beginning this summer.
It is important that Express Mode is turned on so that students can just hold their Apple devices near a card reader to be granted access. Although, adding the digital student ID to the Apple Wallet app will automatically turn on Express Mode. In case the Express Mode is turned off, the digital ID authentication will require Face ID or Touch ID.
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Apple Wallet's Digital ID to Match Students' Expectations of a Technological Experience on Campus
Apple Wallet is a helpful organizational app that allows iPhone and Apple Watch users to secure and organize their tickets, boarding passes, reward cards, credit cards and more. As per Appleosophy, Apple Wallet started supporting student IDs in 2018. Since then, many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada have supported the student ID feature of Apple Wallet. Now, Purdue University joins the list of educational institutions that use the technology. The university's West Lafayette has 50,000 students.
Loribeth Hettinger, the senior associate bursar of ID Card Operations and Support at West Lafayette Campus, announced the rollout of the digital student IDs for Apple Wallet.
"This will greatly simplify some of our bottlenecks by streamlining our ID card distribution processes to our incoming freshmen while also meeting student expectations - and even save them the time and resources they end up spending when losing a physical card," Hettinger added. Meanwhile, Purdue Student Life vice provost Beth McCuskey said that the digital ID system is a "perfect fit" to the students' expectations of an innovative technology inside the campus.
"We know that Purdue students have high expectations for their technology solutions, and mobile credentialing naturally fits in this space," McCuskey said. "We are excited to launch Purdue Mobile ID as a new way to enhance the student experience."
Apple Wallet was originally named Apple Passbook when the Cupertino tech giant launched this feature at WWDC 2012. It received its current name with the iOS 9 release in 2015.
