Third-party Authentication Add-on for Google. Customer Guide.#

The following configuration will allow the customers to configure the Google OAuth application to implement authentication with Google accounts on their LMS sites.

Integration requisites

  • It is required to have your LMS site in a domain of your own.

  • Enterprise or performance subscription with the add-on third-party authentication enabled.

Configuring the Google OAUTH Application#

  1. Log in to your Google account to access The developer's console.

  1. Create a new API project for the integration with the LMS site.

    1. Select New Project.

    2. Enter your Project Name.

    3. Press Create.

../../../_images/third-party-integration-googleapp-newproject.gif

  1. Enable the Google +API service.

../../../_images/third-party-integration-googleapp-enableAPIS.gif

  1. Go to the OAuth consent screen and configure your app according to the needs and requirements for your initiative.

Configuring Your Project in the Google Console#

  1. On your project, create a set of authorization credentials. Go to The credentials page and define.

    • Authorization type: Web complication.

    • Name: The name of your OAuth 2.0 client. This name is only used to identify the client in the console and will not be shown to end-users.

../../../_images/third-party-integration-googleapp-credentials.gif

  1. Set the Redirect Authorized JavaScript origins to https://YOURLMSDOMAIN (without trailing /).

  2. Set the Authorized redirect URIs to https://YOURLMSDOMAIN/auth/complete/google-oauth2/.

../../../_images/third-party-integration-googleapp-redirecturls.gif

  1. Provide eduNEXT with the credentials recently created.

    The client ID and client secret can be found at the top-right corner or can be downloaded in a JSON file.

../../../_images/third-party-integration-googleapp-json.gif

The credentials look like the example below.

{
   "web":{
      "client_id":"xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.apps.googleusercontent.com",
      "project_id":"your_project_id",
      "auth_uri":" https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
      "token_uri":" https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token",
      "auth_provider_x509_cert_url":" https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs",
      "client_secret":"xxXXXxxxXXXXxxxXXXXxxxxX",
      "redirect_uris":[" https://YOURLMSDOMAIN/auth/complete/google-oauth2/"]
   }
}

Send this information to the eduNEXT customer support team via the Edunext Control Center > Customer Support > Submit a Ticket