Facebook sign-in integration
Customers, partners and other external learners sign in to Intellum with their Facebook account. Facebook passes the person’s email to Intellum, and Intellum uses it to identify them.
Common uses of Facebook sign-in
- Public audiences sign in to your academy with a Facebook account they already have, with one less password to create.
- Partners and other external learners reach training without an account in your company’s identity provider.
How Facebook sign-in works
Facebook sign-in uses social OAuth. A person signs in with their Facebook account, and Facebook passes their email to Intellum. Intellum uses that email as the identifier for the person’s account.
How to set up Facebook sign-in
Intellum sets up Facebook sign-in for your site.
- A Facebook account for each person who signs in this way
- An email on that account, which identifies the person in Intellum
How Facebook sign-in for Intellum handles access and data
- Authentication: social OAuth with Facebook.
- Data: the person’s email passes from Facebook to Intellum and identifies the person.
- Accounts: admins remove accounts through the API or a recurring user file.
What to know about Facebook sign-in
- Social sign-in is built for external audiences. For employees, connect your identity provider through SAML 2.0 or OpenID Connect.
Questions about Facebook sign-in
Yes. Facebook sign-in uses social OAuth, so customers, partners and other external learners sign in with a Facebook account they already have.
Social login lets people sign in with an account they already hold, such as their Facebook account. Intellum offers it for external audiences through social OAuth, and the account email identifies each person.
No. Facebook sign-in is meant for external audiences, such as customers and partners. For employees, connect your identity provider, such as Okta or Microsoft Entra ID, through SAML 2.0 single sign-on.
The person’s email. Facebook passes it to Intellum, which uses it as the identifier for that person’s account, and data moves one way, from Facebook to Intellum.
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