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Testing New and Updated Certificates

Testing New and Updated Certificates

Owned by Caleb Wardell (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Feb 05, 2021
2 min read

When creating a new certificate or updating an old one, they must be tested using the normal user experience. This is due to re-rendering an existing certificate or using the Template Viewer on /Pages/Dev does not catch all the issues that could be caused by custom code in the certificate.

To start go to the organizations home page. Then:

  • Edit > Links

  • Add > Course Home Page (use 'test' or similar)

  • Click on that newly create page and go to Edit > Links

  • Add > Exam From Repository

  • Select the 'Acknowledgement' and click 'Add'

  • Go to /Pages/Dev

  • Click on Custom DNS and set up an incoming DNS so the test student can log in:

  • Run the following commands:

AddRegistrationCompletionRule [coursePath] AllExamsComplete() CreateCertificate [OrgPath] testCert "Testing Certificate" [TemplateFileName].cshtml AddCertificateRule [coursePath] AllExamsComplete():testCert

  • Go to that newly create course page

  • Add a default offering (Manage > Registrations)

  • Register a test student in the newly created course

  • In a new browser or incognito sign in as that test user and complete the acknowledgement

  • Note: The deferred actions must not be paused to award the certificate

    ContinueAutomaticOfferingRuleProcessing

  • to verify if it has been processed use the following command (should read '0' ; e.g. processed):

    GetUnprocessedDeferredActionCounts

  • Go to Manage > Reports > Grades (by student) Report on the course page.

  • Click on the test student's certificate to verify.