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 D2L Brightspace’s LTI implementation, implementing a CertMaster Learn integration works in a slightly less intuitive way than with other LMSes or other CompTIA products. 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 Brightspace gradebook endpoints to catch grades from graded assets in our platform. See Part 3 for more info.
Part 1: Create Landing Page link in Brightspace course
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Navigate to your course, and then to the Content tab.
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Click Existing Activities and select External Learning Tools.
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From the list that appears, find the CertMaster Learn Landing Page tool for the desired certification.
Part 2: Create connection to the Brightspace Gradebook (OPTIONAL)
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In the module with your Landing Page link, scroll to the bottom and click 'Add a sub-module…' Name it CertMaster Learn Gradebook Connectors (Administrative Use Only).
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Under your new module, click Existing Activities, and select the CertMaster Learn Gradebook Connector for the desired certification, 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 Brightspace 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 Brightspace 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 Brightspace Gradebook within seconds. However, note that due to the aforementioned technical conflict between our platform and Brightspace, 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 Brightspace, but this will also hide the grades from the students.
Where to find CertMaster LTI 1.3 Tools in D2L Brightspace:
Step 2.3 Using the Gradebook Connector. Use the + and - signs on the right to expand and contract categories, and select as many items as you wish,but ONLY select items from the Practice Questions, Assessments, and Performance-Based Question categories when creating Gradebook Connections.
