We currently offer SSO access to SchoolsBuddy via ManageBac+, Google, Microsoft Office 365, AzureAD, PowerSchool, iSAMS.
For ManageBac+, Google, Azure AD, and Office 365 you can enable this yourself in your SchoolsBuddy account.
For iSAMS SSO, you will need to contact the iSAMS support team for some information, please see the guide here.
For Powerschool SSO you will need to install a plugin and provide credentials and a signing key to the Support team.
We can also enable Firefly and My School Portal SSO.
For Firefly, please send your Firefly URL to the Support team
For MySchoolPortal, please send your MSP URL to the Support team
We are currently unable to offer SSO for VeraCross, Engage.
SSO will be available for staff, parents and students for the above-mentioned providers. Please note that users can login immediately with SSO, they do not need to be activated in SchoolsBuddy.
New users must be imported to SchoolsBuddy before they can login with SSO. The data import runs every twenty-four hours between 1:00 - 3:00am in the default timezone for the server region (UTC in EMEA, UTC -5 in US, UTC +8 in Asia).
The default SchoolsBuddy welcome email contains a link to set a new password. We can amend the welcome email template if SSO access only is needed and remove the request to set up a password. We can also remove the username and password login option from the homepage if all your users will use SSO.
When SSO is configured, you will see a button on the login page that takes you to your chosen provider's login page. Parents, students, and staff will be able to choose whether they log in with their SchoolsBuddy email address and password or with the chosen SSO provider. If you are already logged in with them, your email will be authenticated and you will be logged straight into SchoolsBuddy.