External Content and Certificates

External Content and Certificates

Some pieces of content that you select in the Veracity Launch Portal may link to another Learning Management System (LMS) outside the Portal. After you complete the external content and download a certificate of completion from that other system, you must then upload the certificate into the Portal to get credit.

If the Portal administrator configured the piece of content to open an external link and to let you upload a certificate, then you’ll see something like this when you launch it:



Access External Content

To open the external piece of content:
  1. On the Content page, in the card for the piece of external content, click the Launch button.

  2. On the next page in the Portal, click the Click here to access the external content link, to open the piece of content in a new tab.

  3. Complete the external content. You may have to log-in to another LMS, and then the content may open in yet another tab or new window.

Download the Certificate

The piece of external content may offer a certificate of completion in a few ways:
  1. When you complete the content, it may offer the option to view your certificate of completion immediately. If so, then select the option. Usually, the certificate opens in a PDF viewer tab. Click the Save button (diskette icon) to download the file.

  2. Close the tab or window with the external content. This should return you to the other LMS and give you credit in that system. The other LMS may then also offer the option to view your certificate from there too. If so and if you haven’t already downloaded the certificate, then select the option. Usually, the certificate opens in a PDF viewer tab. Click the Save button (diskette icon) to download the file.

  3. Once the browser finishes downloading the certificate of completion, you can log-out of the other LMS and close the tabs for the other LMS and the certificate.

Upload the Certificate

To upload the certificate of completion to the Portal:
  1. Back in the tab with the Portal, click the I attest that I completed the external content checkbox.

  2. Click the Choose File button.

  3. In the popup file dialog window, navigate to the certificate file (usually in the Downloads directory), select the file, and click the Open button.

  4. In the Portal page, click the Submit for Credit button.
To confirm the upload, click My Progress in the left menu. In the report, the record for the piece of external content should now have a Show Certificate link next to it!