SSO for Commons

[dperpich]

It's great to have a permalink for each resource I share to Commons, but anyone follows that link and then tries to Import the resource ends up being prompted to login to Canvas.com.  The login page is unfamiliar and therefore suspicious. People give up on importing the resource.

What Commons needs is the same kind of "Sorry, we can't automatically authenticat you. Pick your institution" prompt that we're seeing here, in the Canvas Community.

At the moment, the workaround is to send instructions with our permalinks, "First login to ourinstitution.canvas.com, then come back to this webpage/email/social media post, and follow the permalink. Sigh.

[lindgret]

This is also causing issues for us and making Canvas Commons much less useful.

Since we have Canvas Commons integrated as a sidebar option in our instance of Canvas, I assumed that I could link directly to a resource from within a Canvas site and have authentication passed over automatically. That's what integration means. 

Having no provision for SSO handling of authentication seems to be a major oversight in how this was designed. Are we missing something important in how this is supposed to work?

[ProductPanda]

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