Before proceeding with the following steps, you must complete the LMS integration process. Integrating your LMS can save you time and resources. This article helps instructors understand the process and what is automatically created inside the CertMaster learning platform.
Alert: You DO NOT need to create classes inside of the platform when you are using LMS Integration.
1. In your Learning Management System (LMS), click a link created for you by your LMS course design team or LMS administrators. These links are generally in a course section or class.
2. If you're not automatically taken to the content, click Launch to proceed. Once you are in the CompTIA learning platform, click the Home icon.
3. Click the My Institution tab at the very top.
In the Classes tab, your LMS class name will now show in the platform, and any users who click into our platform through the integration from that LMS course will be associated to it.
4. Click Students.
5. In the Students tab, the name of your student(s) will automatically appear if they have clicked over from your LMS to the platform.
6. Click your Profile Name in the Upper Right (such as Sunny Day) and select My Profile.
Several things happened when a user clicks an integration link:
- The First Name, Last Name, and email are brought over from your LMS user profile when you clicked the link.
- If the user has an existing account, the user is logged into it.
- First, we check an invisible, LMS-generated user ID called the sub in the LTI payload
- If there's no match to that, we match accounts based on email, and then associate the sub for next time.
- The course the user clicked in from is activated and/or associated to their account.
- Their account is automatically associated to the institution that owns the integration.
You are now ready to go! You can run reports, see which students have joined the class (after they have also clicked the links from your LMS), etc.