API Admin token working with any school

[BlakeFullerton]

So I am developing a Canvas integration. I am wondering that if I do purchase the sandbox, and I do get an admin key, will I be able to use Oauth with any students token across the country? For example If I have students across the country can I use my one admin token for any student that uses canvas no matter what? I don't want to pay the lump sum for the sandbox but If I do I want to make sure that it will work for every school.

[chriscas]

Hi @BlakeFullerton,

I don't believe you'll get anything universal like that by default, but this knowledge is coming from my experience as a Canvas admin for an institution, not as a developer.  There are what Instructure calls "inherited keys", which I think do work somewhat like what your goal is here, but I don't know how developers get to have an inherited key.  In addition, each school/institution would have to enable the inherited key for their own Canvas instance, and each school/institution may have their own requirements for doing so.

One of the developer friends in this group may be able to shed more light on this topic, but I wanted to at least give you a little bit of info to get started with.

-Chris