[ARCHIVED] LDAP Staff/Students and Canvas Observers

[mwade]

We use LDAP for our staff and students, but have our parents/observers use thier own e-mail address and canvas authentication. It seems that we have to send the users to two different login pages

• /login/ldap
• login/canvas

This is confusing to our end users and clunky at best.

Is there a way to unify this? Or at least add a link to the /login/ldap page to take them to the observer login page?

[lalesi]

 We have the same issue at my school district.   To add to the confusion, when our parents get notifications it redirects them to the wrong login page.   It's very frustrating for our parents.

[Robbie_Grant]

 @mwade ,

We are giving the Canvas Admins area a little bit of love and just want to check in with you.  This will also bring this question new attention. 

Were you able to find an answer to your question? I am going to go ahead and mark this question as answered because there hasn't been any more activity in a while so I assume that you have the information that you need. If you still have a question about this or if you have information that you would like to share with the community, by all means, please do come back and leave a comment.  Also, if this question has been answered by one of the previous replies, please feel free to mark that answer as correct.

Robbie

[mwade]

This has pretty much been ignored by Instructure. It has definately NOT been resolved or answered.

[Robbie_Grant]

 @mwade ,

The way we handle this is a single page with two different links (or buttons) on it.  One for university authenticated users (login/ldap or login/saml) and one for Canvas authenticated users (login/canvas).  This was made even more necessary when we moved to SAML authentication because the default institution.instructure.com page would automatically redirect to our university login page.

Robbie

[mwade]

How do we get this implemented?

[Robbie_Grant]

 @mwade ,

This is something that we did in-house.  You can see an example here:

Academic Technology | New Mexico State University 

The button at the top right says log into Canvas and is for University authenticated accounts.  The one on the bottom left is for Canvas Authenticated accounts.

Robbie

[mwade]

Ok, so this doesn't solve the problem - it's just a work around that we have already done. There are still two login pages...

[lalesi]

I agree this really needs to be addressed and resolved.   I've been dealing with this for close to two years and have 6000 parents frustrated at me for not getting this fixed. The icying on the cake is to make the parent app require a separate user account and the only way to connect to their children is to get their children's networks usernames and passwords..

[dgilogley · Accepted solution]

Hi

I've written some Javascript that you can upload into the theme editor that will solve your problem.

It will create a button below the login box on the LDAP or Canvas page with a link to the other. You just need to set the text in the button and image(logo). This also works for the mobile and desktop.

GitHub for JS: https://github.com/Srulis/Canvas/blob/master/LDAP%20and%20Canvas%20Login.js

How do I upload custom JavaScript and CSS files to an account or sub-account? 

[mwade]

I guess what I don't understand is why Canvas address? Can't be all that hard...