Applicable Products: CertMaster Learn
Note: The following requires that you have an LMS integration with CompTIA already configured in your LMS. If you are interested in setting this up, please contact your Sales representative, who can get you in touch with our integration team. For more info on the configuration process, see our other articles on LMS integration.
Due to a technical conflict between CompTIA and Blackboard’s LTI implementation, implementing a CertMaster Learn integration works in a slightly less intuitive way than with other LMSes. It’s broken up into two parts: 1) Setting up a single LTI link that launches students into our platform, and 2) Optionally setting up a student-hidden section that will act as a conatiner for Blackboard gradebook endpoints to catch grades from graded assets in our platform. See Part 3 for more info.
Part 1: Create Landing Page link in Blackboard Learn
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Navigate to your course, and then to the Content tab.
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Under the Course Content section, click the small '+' icon in the center, and select Content Market.
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At the bottom of the window that appears, you’ll find the Institution Tools section. Select the small '+' icon at the bottom right of the CertMaster Learn <Certification Name> Landing Page item.
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Note that if you miss clicking the tiny '+' icon, it will just open up the Landing Page, rather than placing it in your course!
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Part 2: Create Connection to the Blackboard Gradebook (OPTIONAL)
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Under the Course Content section, click the small '+' icon in the center, and select Create.
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Select Folder from the list that appears.
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Rename the folder something like ‘CertMaster Learn Gradebook Endpoints (Administrative Use Only)’. You may leave it 'Hidden from students' for now. Click Save.
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Click the empty folder to reveal a '+' icon. Click it, and then select Content Market.
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At the bottom of the window that appears, you’ll find the Institution Tools section. Select the CertMaster Learn <Certification Name> Gradebook Connector item, and after a few seconds, the CertMaster Learn Content Selector will appear.
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Check each graded item that you’d like to create a gradebook connection to. Note that for this to function properly, you may only select items from the Practice Questions, Performance-based Questions, or Assessment categories of the content selector. Items from the Lessons and Study Tasks sections will NOT create a connection to the Blackboard Gradebook. A link for each item will appear in the folder. However, please read the following note:
Creating these links also created columns in the Blackboard Gradebook for the course, which are now connected to any student activity in our platform. As long as a student enters CertMaster Learn through the Landing Page link, any time they complete one of the linked activities, their grade will be sent to the Blackboard Gradebook within seconds. However, note that due to the aforementioned technical conflict between our platform and Blackboard, links created by the Gradebook Connector tool will NOT send users to the content listed when clicked. If a user clicks one of these links, an error will be thrown. Only the Landing Page link created in Part 1 will successfully log the student into the CertMaster Learn platform.
As such, we recommend that you name this folder something that will make it clear to students that it is not intended for their use. You also have the option of hiding the folder by using the ‘Hide from students’ option in Blackboard, but this will also hide the grades from the students.
How to find the Content Market:
Where to find CertMaster Learn tools in the Content Market:
Final View of Content section: 
