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title: How do I use Okta or OAuth2 with Thinkific?
description: "**Setting Up An Okta Connection** 1. Log into your Okta Dashboard 2. Click **Applications** on the left-hand side and click **Create App Integration** ![](https://www.wooninja.io/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image.png) 3. Click **OIDC - Open ID Connect,** then **Web Application**, then **Next** ![](https://www.wooninja.io/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image-1.png) 5) Give your…"
url: "https://www.wooninja.io/documentation/how-do-i-use-okta-or-oauth2-with-thinkific/"
updated: "2023-06-07"
category: WooNinja SSO
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# How do I use Okta or OAuth2 with Thinkific?

**Setting Up An Okta Connection**

1. Log into your Okta Dashboard
2. Click **Applications** on the left-hand side and click **Create App Integration**

![](https://www.wooninja.io/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image.png)

3. Click **OIDC - Open ID Connect,** then **Web Application**, then **Next**

![](https://www.wooninja.io/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image-1.png)

5) Give your app a name of your choice, then enter:

- Sign-in redirect URIs: [https://www.example.com/login/okta/callback](https://www.example.com/login/okta/callback)
- Sign-out redirects URIs (Optional): [https://www.example.com/logout](https://www.example.com/logout)

![](blob:https://www.wooninja.io/09507e7a-834d-402c-affc-aa2d57fe59bd)

Finally, click **Save**

**Important:**Leave this window open as you will shortly need credentials from it.

6) In a new window, open the WooNinja SSO application, login using your email and password, and click **Add Connection**

![](https://www.wooninja.io/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image-2.png)

7) In the modal, by referring to your other window that displays your Okta app

- Enter the **Client ID** and **Secret**

![](https://www.wooninja.io/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image-3.png)

- Select **Okta** as your provider
- Click **Add**, and in the box type **base_url** and in the next box enter your **Okta domain**(You **must** add https:// before this domain e.g. https://dev-1234.okta.com)

![](https://www.wooninja.io/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image-5.png)

When complete, your modal should look similar to this:

![](https://www.wooninja.io/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image-6.png)

**Important: **

- Verify your information before proceeding as you cannot modify this data once the connection is set up.
- Okta must return the full name and email of the user to be correctly authenticated to Thinkific

Finally, click**Create**

8) When the connection is saved successfully, you can click **View Connection Details**to display the login link your users must click to gain access to Thinkific

![](https://www.wooninja.io/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image-4.png)

**Top Tip:** We recommend you copy the Login link to an incognito browser, open it and verify the login flow is working correctly.