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Step 1: Obtaining an IllumiDesk Staff Role Account

Greg Werner
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Getting your Staff Role Account Credentials

Getting a new IllumiDesk account with the staff  role is the first step to getting IllumiDesk setup with your LMS.

New IllumiDesk accounts with the staff role are created by an IllumiDesk Team member. Once you have access to this account, you can then create the OAuth2 application and integrate IllumiDesk with your LMS.

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Additional accounts are created within IllumiDesk on behalf of the OAuth2  application, since it has the staff  role. 

Wait What?

IllumiDesk authenticates to the LMS using OAuth2 credentials. OAuth2 is the same standard that powers the ubiquitous Sign in with <insert social auth button here> . OAuth2 credentials, which consist of a Client ID  and Client Secret , are associated to a specific IllumiDesk user with the staff  role.

An IllumiDesk staff  user has permissions to create other accounts within the IllumiDesk system, similar to an admin  account but with permissions limited only to create other user accounts. After the IllumiDesk application has been added to the LMS teachers, teachers assistants, and students can then spawn their own workspaces without having to create an account directly within IllumiDesk.

The Account Creation Worklow

  1. An IllumiDesk team member receives a new account request and creates one with staff  privileges within the IllumiDesk system.

  2. The IllumiDesk team member sends the account credentials to the new user.

  3. The user then logs into IllumiDesk to create their own unique OAuth2 application and then get the associated Client ID  and Client Secret  in Profile --> Settings --> OAuth2 .

  4. The staff user adds the IllumIDesk App  to the LMS course(s).

  5. Students, teachers assistants, and teachers that then interact with the IllumiDesk App from within the LMS have IllumiDesk accounts created on the fly.

Note: The last point above means that additional users have no need to request account credentials directly from IllumiDesk.

 

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