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Open edX - SSO Doc - Draft

Third Party Authentication Features in Open edX: Technical Knowledge Transfer

Part 1: Background / Notes

  • Open edX has full, integrated support for three different types of third party auth provider:
    1. OAuth based providers (OAuth2 and the older OAuth v1). Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Azure Active Directory are available by default. Any other OAuth backends supported by python-social-auth v0.2.12 can be enabled by changing a configuration setting. Contributed by Google (John Cox).
    2. SAML / Shibboleth. SAML is an SSO standard mostly used by universities and corporations. Shibboleth is the name of a particular implementation of SAML, commonly used by higher ed. institutions.
    3. LTI. Users can use Learning Tools Interoperability® (LTI®) to authenticate. Support for this was contributed by UBC.
  • The Open edX platform also includes limited support for the following SSO providers.
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