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Authenticating with Google Sign-In (SSO)

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Simplify user management and secure your Mobile Guardian console by leveraging Google Workspace. By integrating Google Single Sign-In (SSO), your users can access Mobile Guardian using their existing school credentials, reducing password fatigue and streamlining onboarding.

Why Use Google SSO & GWS Sync?

  • One-Click Access: Teachers and administrators log in securely using their familiar Google credentials.
  • Automated Provisioning: Synchronising teachers directly from Google Workspace eliminates manual account creation.
  • Role-Based Access Control: Effortlessly map your GWS organisational structure onto Mobile Guardian.

Understanding the Partial Sync Behaviour

When syncing your teaching staff from Google Workspace, it is important to understand how Mobile Guardian handles user creation:

Note: When you initiate a sync from GWS, Mobile Guardian imports your teachers' basic profile information (names, emails from the organisational units). However, this is considered a partial setup until those users log in for the first time via Google SSO.

  • Before First Login: The teacher's account exists in Mobile Guardian in a pending/linked state.
  • After First Login: Once the teacher authenticates via the Sign-In with Google button, their account profile is fully activated, authorised, and mapped to their respective school or district permissions.

Step 1: Ensure your Teachers and Admins are sync’d

  1. Go to the Settings or ChromeBookSettings 
  2. Select the specific Organisational Units (OUs) containing the teachers you wish to import.
  3. Run the User sync.
  4. Ensure the respective teacher and administrators are sync’d over.

 

Step 2: The Teacher Login Experience

Once the sync is complete, instruct your teachers to access the platform using these steps:

  1. Open the Mobile Guardian login page.
  2. Click the Sign in with Google button.
  3. Enter their User credentials.

Upon successful authentication, their partial account becomes fully active, and they will immediately see their assigned schools, classes, or student dashboards.

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