Product: LaunchPad
Audience: ClassLink Administrator
Launch the ClassLink IDP Console
After you login to the IDP Console, click on COPY EXISTING from the top of the navigation menu. This will present a list of pre-configured SAML connections.
Copy the Canvas (RosterServer required) template from the library.
You will now see the Canvas SAML connector in your list of applications. Copy the IDP Metadata URL and provide that to your Canvas integration engineer. This is a unique URL for your district.
If you have access to the Canvas admin console, input the metadata URL in the SAML settings, otherwise, please contact Canvas for assistance. Canvas will use this URL to establish a trust with ClassLink. Once the trust is established, Canvas will provide metadata or a metadata URL. This information needs to be added in the metadata field. To do this, click Edit.
While editing the SAML app, locate the Login URL field then input your LaunchPad custom login URL.
Not sure what your custom login URL is? The login page URL is located in the ClassLink Management Console under Settings>Login Page. See below.
Scroll further down to the metadata override and locate the Consumer Service URL field. Update the placeholder URL http://YOURDOMAINNAME.instructure.com/log/saml.
Once you've completed updating the SAML settings, scroll down to save.
After your connection has been tested, you can deploy the link to your users. Click on the drop down next to the IDP Metadata URL and select Copy IDP Initiate Login URL. This is the URL you will deploy to your users from Assign Apps.
The URL will look similar to the following.
That's it!