New to Canvas and New to Development

[kevinveku]

Hello Fellow Canvas Devs, 

I have a unique question that I need help with, and this might not be the best place to ask. I have been tasked to create a login page for our Institution, pretty simple. But I am new to Development, I don't know how to connect my login and password fields so that it connects with Canvas Authentication to give access to our Users. Any help would be amazing. 

Thank you in Advance

[chriscas]

Hi @kevinveku,

I don't think "connecting" username/password fields on separate login page is really something that's normally done.  You'd either use Canvas' built-in authentication (where users create their own passwords for Canvas), or you'd set up a 3rd party authentication service (like an institution SSO, google, etc).

Hope this helps a bit!

-Chris

[matthew_buckett]

As @chriscas said normally you'd integrate Canvas with your SSO solution at your institution, however Canvas does allow you to host a webpage that contains a HTML <form> that performs a HTTP POST to the URL https://institution.instructure.com/login/canvas

So allow this you have to put the origin that is serving up the webpage in the list of "Trusted HTTP Referrers" on your account settings page (https://institution.instructure.com/accounts/1/settings#tab-settings). Once you've done this someone should be able to enter their username/password on the page you've designed and then Canvas will check these credentials against their Canvas username/password.

One thing to watch out for is that if the credentials are wrong I think the error message is displayed on the normal Canvas username/password page.