Integrate with an LDAP server

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) integration with your organization's database provides single sign-on (SSO) access for Möbius users.

TIP: Are you an instructor? Ask your organization's Möbius administrator if your organization uses LDAP.

When LDAP is integrated by your IT group, all Möbius user profiles and user authentication are managed automatically by Möbius retrieving basic user profile information from the LDAP server. Example — Email address and student ID

NOTE: The LDAP server is a central repository that's managed by your organization's IT group.

User authentication is handled entirely by the LDAP server, meaning that users will always use their organization's user login and password to access Möbius.

A user's Möbius user login, email, or password aren't required for logging in; students just need their organization's user login and password to access Möbius.

NOTE: Administrators don't have to worry about user logins, emails, passwords, or resetting passwords in a Möbius environment that's integrated with LDAP. These credentials are handled by your IT group.

NOTE: Administrators work with DigitalEd's Support Team (support@digitaled.com) to configure which information in the LDAP profile will be made available to Möbius.

Log in with LDAP

Any user who is stored in the LDAP directory for your organization can log in to Möbius.

Users log in to Möbius using their organization's user login and password.

NOTE: Möbius stores the user login as found in the LDAP directory and that user login will appear in web pages and reports.

Forgotten passwords and LDAP

If a user forgets their password, the user must contact their organization's IT group.

NOTE: Möbius doesn't manage passwords in an LDAP environment, and your organization's Möbius administrator can't reset or retrieve passwords.

Create users with LDAP

Administrators (and users with the instructors + create privilege) can search for users in the LDAP directory who don't have a Möbius account and create an account for them.

1. Click System User Manager on the System Homepage.

1. Click Add User.

1. Select the user attribute you want to search for in the LDAP directory.

1. Enter a value for the selected user attribute.

TIP: You can perform a wild card search by entering a string of text with an asterisk (*). Wild card searches aren't case-sensitive. Example — an* in the Last Name field will display all last names that start with an that are in the LDAP directory but not in Möbius.

1. Click Search.

1. Select the user check boxes from the search results that you want to add to Möbius and click Submit to create the LDAP user profiles in Möbius.

Enroll users into a class with LDAP

Administrators and instructors can enroll users into a class using a user roster file when LDAP is enabled.

TIP: Check out Enroll users into my class to learn how to enroll students using a user roster file.

NOTE: When LDAP is enabled, users must already be registered in Möbius to be imported into a class using a user roster file.

NOTE: The user roster file should only contain user login values when enrolling users into a class using a user roster file. The user login values in the import file are used to match users to the LDAP directory. Check out Work with a user roster file.

User information is verified and updated from the LDAP directory when you import users into a class with a user roster file from a Möbius environment that's integrated with LDAP.