Set up Single Sign-On (SSO) on Clever with the WordPress OAuth & OpenID Connect Single Sign-On plugin for education and protect your complete WordPress site behind SSO. Implementing Clever SSO allows students, teachers, parents, and school district admins to log into your websites and applications with a single set of credentials using the enterprise-level Clever OAuth provider.

Clever acts as the OAuth Provider (Identity Provider) and WordPress acts as the OAuth Client (Service Provider). WordPress Clever Authentication provides smooth login between these two, removing the need to remember usernames and passwords.

The Clever OAuth WordPress plugin also provides advanced SSO features like user profile attribute mapping and role mapping to grant varying levels of access to faculty in an institute/school. Students will also get access to specific school courses on the website based on their sections or school levels. Clever WordPress OAuth SSO plugin secure’s the user’s login process and improves user authentication authority. Follow the steps in the guide below to install this plugin.

We provide WordPress Single Sign-On (SSO) with multiple education providers, such as:

ClassLink

Canvas

Google Classroom

Office 365

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Prerequisites: Download and Installation

• Log into your WordPress instance as an admin.
• Go to the WordPress Dashboard -> Plugins and click on Add New.
• Search for a WordPress OAuth Single Sign-On (SSO) plugin and click on Install Now.
• Once installed click on Activate.

WordPress Clever SSO solution with LearnDash allows the website content to be accessed based on the Clever user roles such that students can only access the website courses but teachers can edit the courses.

Steps to configure Login with Clever (Clever SSO) into WordPress

1. Setup Clever as OAuth Provider

• First of all, go to https://dev.clever.com/ and sign up/login to register a new app.
• Under Start your Clever Sandbox, click on the click here to get started option.

• Go to https://apps.clever.com/signup and signup/login to your account.
• Follow the steps to create an application. (refer to the images below)

• Click on Clever Instant Login option to continue.

• Click on next button to continue.

• Copy the Client ID and the Client secret and store it in your miniOrange OAuth Client Plugin under the Client ID and Client Secret text fields respectively. Copy the Redirect/Callback URL from your miniOrange oauth client plugin and store it in the Redirect URIs text field. Finally, click on the Save button to save your configurations.

• Click on the Next button to continue to next step.
• Select the browsers you want to be supported for certificate survey and select Secure Authorization Grant Flow for the which authorization flow do you use question (refer to the image on the next page).

• Enter all the other fields according to your use case and click on the Submit button in the end to save your configurations.

You've successfully configured Clever as OAuth Provider on your WordPress site, allowing users/students to securely access their WordPress site with Clever SSO or Clever Single Sign-On (SSO) for Education to improve user authentication.

2. Setup WordPress as OAuth Client

3. User Attribute Mapping

• User Attribute Mapping is mandatory for enabling users to successfully login into WordPress. We will be setting up user profile attributes for WordPress using below settings.

Finding user attributes

• Go to Configure OAuth tab. Scroll down and click on Test Configuration.

• You will see all the values returned by your OAuth Provider to WordPress in a table. If you don't see value for First Name, Last Name, Email or Username, make the required settings in your OAuth Provider to return this information.

• Once you see all the values in Test Configuration, go to Attribute / Role Mapping tab, you will get the list of attributes in a Username dropdown.

4. Role Mapping [Premium]

• Click on “Test Configuration” and you will get the list of Attribute Names and Attribute Values that are sent by your OAuth provider.
• From the Test Configuration window, map the Attribute Names in the Attribute Mapping section of the plugin. Refer to the screenshot for more details.

• Enable Role Mapping: To enable Role Mapping, you need to map Group Name Attribute. Select the attribute name from the list of attributes which returns the roles from your provider application.
  Eg: Role


• Assign WordPress role to the Provider role: Based on your provider application, you can allocate the WordPress role to your provider roles. It can be a student, teacher, administrator or any other depending on your application. Add the provider roles under Group Attribute Value and assign the required WordPress role in front of it under WordPress Role.
  
  For example, in the below image. Teacher has been assigned the role of Administrator & Student is assigned the role of Subscriber.

• Once you save the mapping, the provider role will be assigned the WordPress administrator role after SSO.
  Example: As per the given example, Users with role ‘teacher’ will be added as Administrator in WordPress and ‘student’ will be added as Subscriber.

5. Sign In Settings

• The settings in Single Sign-On (SSO) Settings tab define the user experience for Single Sign-On (SSO). To add a Clever login widget on your WordPress page, you need to follow the below steps.

Sign in settings for WordPress 5.7 and before

• Go to WordPress Left Panel > Appearances > Widgets.
• Select miniOrange OAuth. Drag and drop to your favourite location and save.


Sign in settings for WordPress 5.8

• Go to WordPress Left Panel > Appearances > Widgets.
• Select miniOrange OAuth. Drag and drop to your favourite location and save.

• Open your WordPress page and you can see the Clever SSO login button there. You can test the Clever Single Sign-On (SSO) now.

Sign in settings for WordPress 5.9

• Make sure the "Show on login page" option is enabled for your application. (Refer to the below image)

• Now, go to your WordPress Login page. (Eg. https://< your-wordpress-domain >/wp-login.php)
• You will see an Clever SSO login button there. Once you click the login button, you will be able to test the Clever Single Sign-On (SSO).