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The article has been updated successfully.How does the Single Sign On (SSO) integration feature work?
What is Sigle Sign On?Our Single Sign On (SSO) feature lets your quiz automatically identify users who are already logged into your website. This feature is used when you have embedded a quiz on your site or when you have information about the user such as their name & email id that you wish to pass to the quiz. That way the quiz taker does not need to enter their name & email id and are automatically identified.
Why is Sigle Sign On Needed?
This feature is also very userful when you have a large number of users who have already logged in to your website or have identifying information of a large number of users. By using single sign on the users are automatically identified by the quiz (Without the user being asked for their name, email id etc) and when as the quiz author you review the report, you would see who took your quiz. This prevents quiz takers from re-entering their information each time to take the quiz and makes the overall system more secure as users are identified by system rather than trusting the user to enter the correct identifying information.
How do I integrate & use single sign on ?
Integrating When You Link to Quizzes Hosted At ProProfs.com
If you are linking to quizzes that we are hosting for you, you can simply pass to the URL the following two variables:
- user_name - for user name
- user_email - for user's email address
Example: See the URL below. Notice that email and Name boxes are not shown to the quiz taker.
The system already knows the user and prevents the user from typing in this information again.
Integrating When You Embed Quizzes On Your Quiz
Lets take an example of your website url (link) where you have embedded the quiz.
http://www.mywebsite.com/quiz/
http://www.mywebsite.com/quiz/page.html
We use two variables from query string to fetch the user data from the query string. These are:
- user_name - for user name
- user_email - for user's email address
You need to provide these two variables with the quiz page url, where you embedded the quiz.
For example:
You have embedded the quiz on the website page: http://www.mywebsite.com/quiz/page.html
Then add the two variables like this:
http://www.mywebsite.com/quiz/?user_name=John&user_email=john@email.com
The quiz will automatically fetch the user name and email address from the URL. See the example screen shots below:
If you have any trouble implementing the SSO on your website, please contact support for assistance.
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