With Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), your users can sign in to enterprise cloud applications with their Google Cloud credentials.
Set up SSO via SAML for LearnCore
Step 1: Set up Google as a SAML identity provider (IdP)- Sign in to your Google Admin console .
Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).
- In the Admin console, go to Menu Apps Web and mobile apps.
- Click Add app Search for apps.
- Enter LearnCore in the search field.
- In the search results, hover over the LearnCore SAML app and click Select.
- On the Google Identity Provider detailspage, download the Metadata XML.
- Click Continue.
- On the Service provider detailspage Click Continue.
- On the Attribute Mapping
page, click the Select fieldmenu and map the following Google directory attributes to their corresponding LearnCore attributes:
.Google directory attribute LearnCore attribute Basic Information > Primary Email NameID Basic Information > First Name User.FirstName Basic Information > Last Name User.LastName - (Optional) To enter group names that are relevant for this app:
- For Group membership (optional), click Search for a group, enter one or more letters of the group name, and select the group name.
- Add additional groups as needed (maximum of 75 groups).
- For App attribute, enter the service provider’s corresponding groups attribute name.
Regardless of how many group names you enter, the SAML response will include only groups that a user is a member of (directly or indirectly). For more information, go to About group membership mapping .
- Click Finish.
Send an email to your support contact at LearnCore to let them know you'd like to enable SAML on your account. Include the Metadata XMLyou downloaded in step 1.
LearnCore will let you know when they enable SAML on their side.
- Sign in to your Google Admin console .
Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).
- In the Admin console, go to Menu Apps Web and mobile apps.
- Select LearnCore.
- Click User access.
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To turn a service on or off for everyone in your organization, click On for everyoneor Off for everyone, and then click Save.
- (Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:
- At the left, select the organizational unit.
- To change the Service status, select Onor Off.
- Choose one:
- If the Service status is set to Inherited and you want to keep the updated setting, even if the parent setting changes, click Override.
- If the Service status is set to Overridden, either click Inheritto revert to the same setting as its parent, or click Saveto keep the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.
Note: Learn more about organizational structure .
- To turn on a service for a set of users across or within organizational units, select an access group. For details, go to Use groups to customize service access .
- Ensure that your LearnCore user account email IDs match those in your Google domain.
LearnCore supports both Identity Provider (IdP) initiated and Service Provider (SP) initiated SSO. Follow these steps to verify SSO in either mode:
IdP-initiated
- Sign in to your Google Admin console .
Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).
- In the Admin console, go to Menu Apps Web and mobile apps.
- Select LearnCore.
- At the top left, click Test SAML login.
LearnCore should open in a separate tab. If it doesn’t, use the information in the resulting SAML error messages to update your IdP and SP settings as needed, then retest SAML login.
SP-initiated
- Go to your LeanCore instance.
You should be redirected to the Google sign-in page. - Enter your username and password.
After your credentials are authenticated, you are redirected to LearnCore.
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