How do I upload student and faculty user lists to Stemify? – Stemify

User Type > Faculty or Admin

For those schools who choose not to use Single Sign On for the creation and management of student and faculty access to Stemify, student and faculty user lists can be uploaded to an Amazon S3 Bucket.

What is an Amazon S3 Bucket?

An Amazon S3 bucket is a private and secure storage resource available in Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3), an object storage offering. Amazon S3 buckets, which are similar to file folders, store objects, which consist of data and its descriptive metadata.

Stemify uses Amazon S3 Buckets for two purposes:

To retrieve User Lists from schools who do not want to use Single Sign On for the creation of Student, and faculty accounts on the Stemify Platform.
To deliver student Placement Score results to schools.

Download the Amazon S3 Browser

Amazon offers an S3 Browser free for personal use and evaluation, with paid options and support for enterprises and institutions.

To download the S3 Browser for Windows Client, click on this link: https://s3browser.com/download.aspx

Click on the green “Download S3 Browser” button in the upper right corner.

This will trigger a download to your computer. Open the download by clicking on the executable (.exe) file in the lower left corner of your computer screen.

When the File Download dialog box appears, click the Run button.

Click “Next” to continue.

Agree to User Terms.

Choose the location where you want to install the S3 Browser.

Select the additional tasks you would like to perform.

Click on the Finish button to complete the installation and run S3 Browser.

Create a new Amazon S3 Account

When you start the S3 Browser for the first time, you will be asked to add a new Account.

Fill out the following fields:

Account Name - You can assign any name to your Account.
Account Type - Choose Amazon S3 Storage.
Access Key ID and Secret Access Key - Access Keys are used to sign the requests you send to Amazon S3. The S3 Link and the private Access Keys will be emailed directly from the Stemify Project Manager to the school resource who is responsible for loading the file.
Encrypt Access Keys with a password - Turn this option on if you want to protect your Access Key ID and Secret Access Key with a master password. You will be asked for a master password each time you start S3 Browser.
Use secure transfer (SSL/TLS) - Turn this option on if you would like to encrypt all communications with the storage.
Click Add new account.

Now you are ready to start working with S3 Browser.

Upload User Files to Stemify Amazon S3 Bucket

Start the S3 Browser and select the bucket that you plan to use as a destination. Please note that the word "School" is used only as an example in this document. Your actual school name should be displayed as part of the bucket name.

Select the bucket named Stemify-School-input.