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New in SURFeduhub: the self-service portal

Does your educational institution use SURFeduhub? In 2025, with the new self-service portal, you’ll be able to determine which data you share with which applications. This gives you greater control over your data and makes it easier to implement changes.

SURFeduhub is the central platform where educational institutions exchange data with applications, such as timetables or catalogues. Thanks to the new options in the self-service portal, this process is now more transparent and easier.

Three new features

The portal introduces three key new features:

  1. Decide which application receives your data
    First of all, you can choose whether you want to share your data with the connected applications. Do you want to share your data with eduXchange, but not, for example, with DUO's RIO mapper? Turn permission on or off yourself. This also gives you insight into how your data is used.
  2. A tool for OOAPI configuration
    Is it sometimes complicated to put your data in OOAPI format (Open Education API)? This is why the dashboard includes a tool to validate your data. This helps you understand what you need to change to get your data in OOAPI format.
  3. Reports on the usability of your data
    The third new feature: you can have a report created on your data. Is the data complete and in the right format to share with applications? The report will tell you what is still missing or needs to be adjusted. So you always know whether your data is ready to be shared.

A quick refresher: SURFeduhub retrieves data

SURFeduhub is not visible to end-users, but it is very important! This hub retrieves data from educational institutions. That data is, for example, catalogues or timetables. With your permission, these timetables or other information are then shared with connected applications. The two best-known applications are eduXchange and RIO (Registration Institutions and Programmes). There you will see the shared data again.

From email to self-management

More than 50 member institutions are now connected to SURFeduhub. More applications are being added all the time. Each institution can indicate per application whether information can be shared. Currently, this is done by sending an e-mail to the SURF administrators of SURFeduhub. From 2025, you will be able to indicate this yourself in the dashboard, thus retaining responsibility for your own data.

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