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IAM in education

In education, you manage two worlds simultaneously: employees and students, spread across all your schools. Joinly integrates your student administration system and HR with Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace. Ensuring that accounts and access are managed automatically, privacy-compliant, and demonstrably secure. Ready for the standard frameworks in education.

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Who is this for?

Joinly works for every educational organisation that wants to manage employee account management centrally and securely, while maintaining autonomy per school or location.

  • education

    Primary education

    School boards with dozens of schools and hundreds of employees, often working across multiple locations, working on the IBP standards framework.

    IAM Primary Education
  • secondary education IAM

    Secondary education

    Schools with large, fluctuating teams of teachers and support staff, falling under the same IBP standards framework.

    IAM Secondary education
  • IAM MBO/HBO

    MBO and higher education

    Institutions in secondary vocational education, universities of applied sciences, and research universities that assess via SURFaudit; for colleges and universities, the Cybersecurity Act (NIS2) will also apply.

    IAM secondary vocational and higher education
  • IAM childcare

    Childcare and children's centres

    Integrated child centres (ICCs) that combine education and childcare, with mixed teams of teachers and pedagogical employees.

    IAM Kinderopvang

What is IAM in education?

More and more schools are facing the same challenge: you need to work digitally secure, but no one knows exactly if it is "good enough".

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the set of processes that manages who has access to which systems, and why. In education, this is challenging because staff work across many schools, often at multiple locations simultaneously, and because the inflow and outflow are continuous.

Properly managed IAM means that creating, modifying and revoking accounts is automatic and auditable.

Why IAM is essential for education

Education relies on trust and careful handling of data, with IAM at its core.

  • Strong access security

    With smart access rules and strong authentication, you prevent unauthorized access to sensitive systems and data.

  • Least privilege access

    Employees only receive the permissions they actually need for their role and school.

  • Automated lifecycle management

    Accounts are created, updated, and deactivated with every personnel change, including for substitutes and employees at multiple schools, without manual work.

  • Demonstrably in control

    Logging and reporting show who had access, when, and why, which is essential for accountability and audits.

Ready for 2027

IAM is an integral part of the educational standards frameworks

Digitale veiligheid is in het onderwijs geen vrijblijvende keuze meer. In de normenkaders voor de sector is toegangsbeheer een apart domein, en goed geregelde IAM is precies wat ervoor nodig is.

With automated provisioning, least privilege, logging, and demonstrable reporting, Joinly covers the access control standards of these frameworks.

How Joinly helps

Joinly works as a control and automation layer on top of Microsoft Entra ID or Google Workspace, powered by your HR system.

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  • HR-driven provisioning

    Wij koppelen je personeelssysteem aan de werkomgeving, zodat:

    • accounts are automatically created upon onboarding
    • access is immediately blocked upon offboarding
    • a change in role automatically leads to the correct access
  • Role and access governance

    Roles linked to job title and to school or location

    • teacher, internal coordinator, caretaker and headteacher each have the correct profile
    • transparent translation from role to permissions
  • Logging & Compliance reporting

    we collect and structure provisioning logs, audit trails and exception reports

    • access and changes are transparent for audits and incident response
    • compliance with the standards framework is demonstrable
  • SCIM & application integrations

    employees automatically provisioned to education and business operations applications

    • no silos outside the central working environment
    • complete control over access

Where schools often get stuck

  • Manual account creation and offboarding, done slightly differently for each school.
  • No central role structure (RBAC); fragmented management, leaving the board without an overview.
  • Limited capabilities to log and account for access.
  • Standalone applications without integration with HR or the authorisation process.
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What you achieve with well-managed IAM

Prepare your educational organisation for secure access, reduced administrative burden, and smooth audits.

  • Ready for the standards framework:

    Your IAM is configured to meet the requirements of the IBP Standards Framework and SURFaudit, meaning self-evaluations and audits require less time and fewer corrective actions.

  • Reduced administrative burden:

    Administrators and the management office save time as onboarding, changes, and offboarding are processed automatically.

  • Automated lifecycle management:

    Onboarding, role changes and offboarding are automatically processed in the workspace and integrated applications, without manual actions.

  • Secure and with no residual accounts:

    No forgotten accounts of departed employees; access always reflects the actual situation at school.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Joinly focuses on employee account management from your HR system. Accounts for pupils and students are currently excluded; these remain within your own chain for students and learning materials.

  • With the systems commonly used in education, such as AFAS, Visma, and HR2day. The approach is system-agnostic: as long as your HR system makes changes available, Joinly can work with it.

  • Yes. Joinly works as a layer on top of Microsoft Entra ID or Google Workspace, and can also provision to a hybrid setup with a local Active Directory.

  • Yes. Access control is one of the 15 domains in the IBP Framework. Automated provisioning, least privilege, and logging demonstrably cover these standards, which is useful for the mandatory self-assessment from 2027 onwards.

  • The Cybersecurity Act, the Dutch implementation of the European NIS2 directive, places access management at the heart of its duty of care. Strong authentication, least privilege and logging are essential parts of this, which is exactly what Joinly automates.

  • Yes. The board centrally manages how accounts and access are created, while the school retains control over its own education. This is made possible by roles per school and location.

  • Joinly only shares the necessary data and logs every action. This ensures you operate according to data minimisation and can demonstrate that access is carefully managed.

  • Access is automatically blocked immediately, and accounts are cleared after a set period. This ensures no leftover accounts remain in your systems.

  • With a free IAM scan, we map out how secure your account management currently is and identify the quickest wins. After that, you decide the pace.

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