As colleges expand online and hybrid programs, remote identity verification has become essential. Institutions must verify student identities and meet IAL2 requirements—often without in-person interaction—while still delivering a seamless experience. Legacy and manual IDV processes struggle to keep pace with increasingly sophisticated fraud, creating risk and unnecessary friction. Modern biometric IDV helps strengthen trust at enrollment and beyond without disrupting legitimate students.

Manual reviews also strain limited staff and slow admissions, financial aid, and student services. Automating identity verification and fraud detection enables institutions to stop bad actors early, reduce false positives and manual workload, and protect funding, compliance, and institutional integrity—while allowing staff to focus on higher-value work.

During this webinar, attendees learned to: 

• Stop fraudulent student enrollments without creating friction for legitimate students
• Prevent financial aid and benefits fraud while meeting compliance and audit requirements
• Verify student identity remotely in online and hybrid learning environments
• Detect repeat or organized fraud across applications, enrollment, and ongoing student access
• Reduce manual review and staff burden caused by identity checks and fraud investigations
• Protect institutional funding, reputation, and accreditation from fraud-related losses