Does your organization or your client’s organization use Microsoft? It is now possible to let participants log in to LearningStone automatically using their own work Microsoft account. No extra passwords, no separate accounts - just log in with what they already know. Designed especially for large organizations that want more control over access and security.
SSO by Microsoft Entra (formely known as Azure Active Directory).
Security and ease of use rarely go hand in hand - yet that is exactly what SSO delivers. Research by the Ponemon Institute (2023) shows that weak or reused passwords account for more than 80% of data breaches in organizations. Nick van der Meulen (MIT Sloan, 2022) highlights that employees lose an average of 11 minutes per day to login problems - time that comes at the expense of learning and working. SSO solves this by centralising identity management: the organization retains control, and the employee experiences no barrier. For L&D professionals this means less drop-off at the start of a training, fewer support requests, and more focus on actual learning.
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Participants log in with their trusted Microsoft work account. If someone tries to log in with an email address from the configured domain, LearningStone automatically redirects the user to the organisation to log in there. No new password required. Read more
If a participant logs in for the first time and no account exists yet, one is created automatically. The trainer does not need to do anything for this.
A groupspace can be further secured by adding the domain to the allowlist, so that participants without SSO cannot be added to the group. This keeps access fully under the control of the organisation.
The SSO integration is based on the OpenID Connect protocol - an open standard. The underlying Open-ID technology was developed open source for the City of Amsterdam by Driebit and made available via the Zotonic framework, which was subsequently integrated into the LearningStone platform. Reliable, transparent, and widely accepted.
The configuration works via an App Registration in the Microsoft Entra admin center, where LearningStone is set up as an OpenID Connect provider. The organisation's IT department does this once in consultation with LearningStone, after which everything works automatically.
Want to know how to set it up? First get in touch with us and check the full help page at www.learningstone.com/help-entra
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