Applicable products: CertMaster Practice
Note: The following requires that you have an LMS integration with CompTIA already configured in your Canvas instance. 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 configuring our products in Canvas.
Our LTI 1.3 implementation of CertMaster Practice is still in development, and as such, using LTI 1.3 for CertMaster Practice is only recommended in certain situations – namely, when you wish to create individual links in Canvas for every CertMaster Practice module in a course. For most customers, we recommend a more pared-down implementation: one link to a Learner Dashboard, one to an Instructor Reporting Dashboard, and one to the final Practice Exam. However, if your institution’s needs differ, LTI 1.3 may be right for you.
Adding CertMaster Practice content to your Moodle course
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In your Moodle course, click the Turn editing on button in the top right.
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Scroll to (or create) the topic you want to place CertMaster Practice content in.
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Click + Add an activity or resource at the bottom right of the topic to open the Activity Chooser.
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Find and select the desired CertMaster Practice tool in the All or Activites tabs, or search for it using the Search bar at the top.
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The tool name can be set to anything your LMS Admin wants, but if our recommended configuration was followed, it will be called ‘CertMaster Practice for <Certification Name> Learner Modules’
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If you cannot find the tool in the Activity Chooser, your LMS Admin may have chosen to not show it there. In this case, select External tool from the Activity Chooser, and in the dialogue that appears, select the desired tool from the Preconfigured tool dropdown second from the top.
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In the External tool dialogue that appears, leave the Activity Name blank, and click the Select content button near the top. After a few seconds, the content selector will appear.
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Select the item you wish to place in the Module.
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Repeat steps 3-6 for each desired item.
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Moodle will process the selected items into graded Activities automatically with a corresponding column in the Moodle Gradebook. Graded items default to 100 points, but the point value can be edited after the items are added to the course.
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Click Save and return to course and your selected items should now appear under the desired Topic.
Functionality and Tips
This seems like an awful lot of links, and each has its own gradebook entry? And what about an Instructor Dashboard?
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We generally recommed an LTI 1.1 implementation that sends the user to our platform’s Learner Dashboard, as well as provides an entry point to an Instructor Reporting Dash.
Assignment and Grade Services (AGS) Functionality
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Our tools utilize LTI 1.3’s Advantage Services – specifically Deep Linking and Assignment and Grade Services (AGS) – to allow grades to automatically pass from our platform to the LMS gradebook as they’re completed. See our article LMS Integration: Assignment and Grade Services (AGS) for Technical Requirements, Frequently Asked Questions, and other information on this process.
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Note that due to the nature of the smaller CertMaster Practice modules – taking the user through each question multiple times until they ‘master’ them – completion of a module implies a grade of 100%, and only the final Practice Exam, which functions as a traditional exam, will return anything other than a grade of 100.
For more assistance, see the screenshots below.
Step 4. The Moodle Activity Chooser. You can search for ‘CertMaster’ at the top and then select the desired tool directly (such as ‘CertMaster Learn for A+’), or select ‘External tool’ and then pick the specific tool from the ‘Preconfigured Tool’ dropdown in the dialogue that appears.