Platform: Moodle (v4 or newer)
This guide will assist in creating Moodle assignments that will link directly to a CertMaster course resource.
Note: After this process, if you find that some links have created unexpected Moodle gradebook columns, and your integration tool was configured before 2024, your configuration may need to be updated. Confirm your configuration using the article linked here, specifically the parts described in Step 8.
Steps
Note: In newer versions of Moodle, you may need to navigate to the Course's settings, select 'LTI External Tools' from the 'More' dropdown, and enable the CertMaster LTI Adv tool before proceeding.
1. While logged into Moodle as an instructor, navigate to the desired Moodle course and click 'Edit Mode' button in the upper right:
2. Click 'Add an activity or resource'
3. Click CertMaster LTI Adv (or the name your school has given the tool)
4. Click the 'Select content' button
5. Click Course Resources
6. Search for and select the desired product.
- If your institution purchases license pools or uses Usage-based Billing, you can check Only show institution licensed products to show only the products that have been set up for those purchase methods.
Please note the different CertMaster product types, and only select one for any given certification line you wish to place into your course. Not every Certification offers every product, though almost all of them do.
- Learn (and TestOut Pro): The base-level product. Contains reading content, interactives, quizzes, simulation-based Labs, as well as Assessments and Practice Exams.
- Labs: Supplementary product that contains Virtual-Machine-based Labs that allow students to practice in a full version of the operating system in question. Only available for products released in 2024 and after.
- Perform: The flagship product. Contains all of the above. Only available for products released in 2024 and after.
7. Click the chapter you are working on in the left column and then select the checkboxes for the subjects that you would like to create links to in the right column
8. Click the Continue button
9. Check the items you wish to be graded, and click the Create Links button
10. Click the Save and return to course button. (Note: This may take up to a couple of minutes depending on how many links you've added. Moodle may seem to stall, but it is adding the links in the background. You can verify by reloading the course in a separate tab.)
11. Confirm that the links appear in your course
Next Steps for Instructors and Learners
Please make instructors and students aware of our article LMS Integration: Using Integrated LMS Courses for first steps with an integrated course. No manual setup of users or classes is required in an integrated course, and if an instructor attempts it anyway, it can cause technical issues.