How to request Single Sign-On (SSO) for your faculty and students

A guide to setting up Single Sign-On (SSO) for your organisation.

Pre-requisites

To proceed with SSO, you will need to:

• Know what SAML Identity Provider your organisation uses. For example: Google Workspace, Entra ID (Azure AD), Clever, Classlink or any other SAML 2.0 compliant Identity provider. 
• Be able to administer your SAML Identity Provider to set up the integration. 
• Be able to provide your Identity Provider metadata either as an XML file, a link to XML file or the specific values from the metadata. 
• Decide if you will be grouping your users (for example, split out by staff, students, school or grade/year). Digital Theatre+ offers Content Controls to manage access to resources on the platform, so you can be confident that what your students are browsing is appropriate for their age group and your curriculum.
• If separating users into groups, decide what SAML Attributes and Values will be used to do this.

We have written general step-by-step instructions for configuring your IdP for SSO in this article, which also contains links to specific guides for the most common providers.

Got everything listed above?

Great news! You're ready to submit your SSO configuration request form. Please select one of the following options:

• Form 1: Request SAML Single Sign On using bilateral configuration (manual metadata exchange)
• Form 2: Request Single Sign On configuration via Federated IdP  (e.g. EduGain, InCommon, UK Access Management)