SS&E - Authentication & SSO

Overview This article outlines instructions for implementing SS&E Authentication for new customers. If you are an existing customer and your institution would like to move from another authentication method to Office365 Authentication for SS&E, please reach out to your CSM or submit a support request at https://support.watermarkinsights.com/hc/en-us/requests/new for hel...

SAML is a single sign-on protocol supported by various applications. Student Success & Engagement (SS&E) also supports SAML. Note that SS&E only supports service provider initiated SSO via SAML. IdP initiated SSO is not supported. Watermark will provide SS&E metadata to the institution, which contains the information necessary to configure SS&E as a service provider. T...

Overview When setting up OneLogin to serve as the SAML identity provider you will need to configure a new generic service provider as you will not find Watermark Student Success & Engagement in the list of apps. IMPORTANT: You will need to contact SS&E support to setup a time to configure the SS&E side of the SSO connection and test login once the configuration is compl...

If you are using or are planning to use Quicklaunch 8 SAML as your identity provider there are a couple of extra tasks Quicklaunch needs to perform for you before SAML authentication will work with Watermark Student Success & Engagement products. Once you have the SS&E metadata from Watermark you will need to work with Quicklaunch support to setup the SS&E service prov...