Schoology API: Login and Authentication

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Schoology API: Login and Authentication

Overview

Create a Schoology testing account (using the Questable Gmail account, login in Slack) and use it to login/authenticate/connect to the Schoology REST API

Resources

• Schoology API documentation
• What is a REST API?
• React Query v3 documentation (We are using v3, not v4!)

Frontend

• Create a component <SchoologyAPILogin /> in src/components/teacher that will contain the login button for Schoology account and the authentication logic for Schoology
  • For cleanliness you can also create a SchoologyAPI.tsx file in src/utils
• Import and display <SchoologyAPILogin /> in routes/teacher/ClassSettings.tsx to make sure it works

Backend

• Create a Schoology account and send the login credentials in the team Slack (using the Questable Gmail account, login in Slack)
• Implement functionality to connect with the Schoology API in SchoologyAPILogin />. In general, these are the steps you MIGHT need to take in the authentication process:
  • Upon click of a "Login" button in <SchoologyAPILogin />, send the user to some login portal (to log into Schoology account)
  • Upon login, redirect the user back to Questable and serve them with an authentication token
  • Use the authentication token to make authenticated requests to the Schoology API (for various sorts of data)