This guide is meant to help place links to CertMaster Class Assessment exams directly into your Canvas course. You can create an assignment link to any assessment using the CertMaster LTI Advantage tool.
Note: If your integration was configured before June 2024, your tool title may use ‘LabSim’ or ‘TestOut’ instead of ‘CertMaster’
Steps
1. From within a course that will use CertMaster, navigate to Modules, click + Module, name your module (such as Week 1), and click Add Module.
2. Inside your module, navigate to more menu (the three vertical dots) and choose CertMaster LTI Adv (please note that CertMaster LTI Adv is the default name. During installation a different name may have been used).
3. Once the CertMaster LTI Adv tool loads, click Class Assessments.
4. Select the Class Assessment for which you want to create an assignment link.
5. Select the number of points that you would like the Class Assessment to be worth inside the Canvas grade book (Please note this will not change the value of the Class Assessment inside of CertMaster).
6. Click Create Link.
7. In your module group, you will see the link to your Class Assessment (Please note you will need to publish the assignment for your students to see it in their course).
8. In the Assignments (possibly named CertMaster or CompTIA) group you can Edit your Class Assessment to adjust a Due Date, Points, or other options supported by Canvas in More Options.
Important Information:
Automatically Creating a class and Enrolling students
AS THE INSTRUCTOR:
Click one of the CertMaster assignment links in your LMS course. When you click on the link, a like-named class is automatically created in CertMaster. You can view this class on your home (MY School) page within your CertMaster account. As applicable, make sure to click a link from each of your LMS courses. When you do, again, a class matching your LMS course's name will be automatically created in your CertMaster account. As a best practice, don't rename, archive, or manually create a duplicate of this class in CertMaster. However, you may archive the class after your semester ends.
DO NOT create your class manually in CertMaster.
Note: It is critical that at least one initial assignment be clicked to establish integration between your LMS and your CertMaster account, which involves the creation of the automatic class within your CertMaster account, as well as its associated start/end dates. See below for additional information around class dates.
INSTRUCT YOUR STUDENTS:
Click one of the CertMaster assignment links inside your LMS course. Upon clicking, a student account will automatically be created for the student in CertMaster, and the student will be enrolled in the corresponding class in CertMaster. It is critical that at least one initial assignment be clicked to establish integration between your LMS and the CertMaster student and instructor accounts. This is how the CertMaster platform knows that your student exists, and is also important for multiple aspects of integration functionality, such as score return from CertMaster to your LMS.
Licenses: If your agreement with CompTIA involves pre-purchased licenses or usage-based billing, a courseware license is also automatically activated and applied to the billing method in question.
Access Keys: If your students will be gaining access through Access Keys (usually purchased by the student ahead of time via a bookstore or https://shop.testout.com/), they will be prompted to enter their access key when they click their first CertMaster link. If purchasing from https://shop.testout.com/ a student purchase price code can be obtained from your school's CompTIA Customer Success Manager.
- For students who already have CertMaster accounts, make sure that the email address associated with their CertMaster account is the same as the email address of their LMS account. This way, the integration will be able to find and connect to the existing student CertMaster account.
- DO NOT create your students' accounts inside CertMaster through CSV, individually, or through email.
- Students DO NOT need to create their accounts through testout.com.
Regarding Start and End Dates of your CertMaster class
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If the LMS course start date is known via the integration, this date will be used as the start date for the CertMaster class.
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If the LMS course end date is known via the integration, this date will be used as the end date for the CertMaster class. The end date shouldn’t exceed 18 months from when a course is first created in CertMaster.
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If the LMS course start date is NOT known via the integration, the date when the first initial TestOut assignment link is clicked will be used as the start date for the CertMaster class.
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If the LMS course end date is NOT known via the integration, the CertMaster end date will be 12 months from the start date (the start date is based on the standards set above).
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If the LMS course end date is set to continuous, the CertMaster end date will be 12 months from the start date (the start date is based on the standards set above).