As our Canvas Administrator, I have several Canvas Accounts, and it would make life much easier to be able to stay logged in here in the Canvas Community. Now, when I follow a link in an email update, it does not log in me automatically, so I have to go log in, and then lose the place I was trying to find. I could keep a tab open all the time, but this isn't always convenient.
Please add a "Stay Logged In," (be able to choose the account), to the Community.
I love this idea! Perhaps something we could consider as an update to our v.1 SSO connector, sometime later on ;-)
I'm in the same boat as Kate Hill and would love to have this new feature! It is quite annoying to go through all of those steps, especially the losing the place once you get logged in.
I think Stefanie Sanders expressed those same concerns about losing a place in Community once you log back in.
I'm often guilty of keeping many windows and tabs open although I mostly only log into Canvas as me these days. One of the first things I do when starting my day is to check that I'm authenticated into Canvas and into the Community. After that I rarely need to log back into either and when I click on links I don't have the problem of losing my place and having to re-login. I'm curious as to whether this is what others are experiencing now as well or whether this is still an ongoing problem for some people?
Scott, I've now got the Community pinned to my browser (Firefox) as the first, always-open, tab. So every morning when I launch Firefox, I'm at the Community home screen, and I click on the Log In link at the upper right. Because I have so many Canvas accounts from which to choose, I'm then presented with the drop-down of account choices--and as long as I remember to select the right one (), I stay logged in all day--and I can work in multiple tabs within the Community with no issues.
The issues I related to Biray if I recall correctly (it was quite a while ago) related to my experience with accessing the Community on an iPad through the Safari browser. I haven't done that in awhile, so I'll need to do some new testing to see if those issues persist.
Good point about the mobile experience, Stefanie. I also rarely login any other way than my full size machine.
Hey Kate. I know you posted this about 2.25 years ago so I'm a bit late on my answer, but I found this solution as an admin and I just found your idea and situation so I thought I would relay it.
There is a chrome extension called, EditThisCookie. With that extension you are able to modify the cookie the community uses to lock in place the information you prefer to use to log in to the community. This solution is explained in more detail in Efficiency tips for Admins under the heading "Log into the Community single sign on with a default Canvas instance."
I hope this helps!
This is a really awesome idea. I really don't like having to long in every single time.
Hi Kate,
Thank you for following up on the exchange about this over in the old Zendesk forums. I can see where what you describe would be useful.
Because this isn't a Canvas feature idea per say, I am going to moving it over to Meta Community Group, our community about the Canvas community.