NCAA CPL Navigation Exam cheat sheet

CPL (College/Continuing Professional Learning) platform login requires institutional credentials issued by the campus CPL administrator; self-registration is not available for staff roles.

The dashboard has four primary areas: Catalog, My Learning, Reports, and Administration; the Administration area only renders for accounts with an administrative role assignment.

Role determines visible navigation: Learners see Catalog and My Learning; Reviewers see a review queue; Administrators see user management and reporting.

Course search supports filtering by subject, credit type, delivery mode, and status; filters persist for the session but reset on logout.

Breadcrumb trails at the top of each page show the navigation path and allow one-click return to any parent level.

Notification badges on the bell icon indicate pending review items, expiring enrollments, or system announcements; counts clear when the item is opened.

The profile menu exposes account settings, accessibility preferences, role display, and logout; session timeout follows institutional single sign-on policy.

Help and support links appear in the footer; the support form auto-attaches the current page URL and user ID to speed ticket resolution.

A catalog course record contains title, subject code, credit value, description, learning objectives, delivery mode, and status (draft, published, archived).

Only published courses appear in the learner-facing catalog; draft and archived records are visible to administrators only.

Enrollment can be open (self-enroll), approval-required (administrator or instructor approves), or assigned (pushed by an administrator or learning path).

A learning path is an ordered or unordered collection of courses with optional prerequisites; completion of a path requires completion of every required course.

Prerequisite rules block enrollment until the prerequisite course is marked complete; administrators can override with a documented exception.

Unenrolling a learner preserves their completion records but removes the active enrollment and any pending assignments.

Archiving a course removes it from the catalog and blocks new enrollments while retaining historical enrollment and completion data.

Capacity limits, if set, cap active enrollments; waitlist behavior is configured per course and is not global.

NCAA initial-eligibility core courses fall into four areas: English, mathematics, natural/physical science, social science, and additional courses; the specific count depends on the division.

For Division I, 16 core courses are required: 4 English, 3 math, 2 natural/physical science, 1 additional English/math/science, 2 social science, and 4 additional courses.

For Division II, 16 core courses are required with a different distribution: 3 English, 2 math, 2 natural/physical science, 2 social science, and 3 additional, plus 4 more from any area.

A core course must be in English, math, natural/physical science, social science, world language, or comparative religion/philosophy, and must be taught by a qualified teacher at the high school.

Remedial, vocational, and credit-by-exam courses generally do not satisfy core-course requirements unless specifically approved.

Rules education content should be versioned; updates to NCAA legislation must be reflected in course content and communicated to learners with a completion re-attestation where required.

Completion of rules education modules is tracked per learner with date, module version, and score; records support institutional compliance attestations.

Division III does not use the NCAA Eligibility Center core-course certification model in the same way; content should distinguish division-specific requirements clearly.

Progress percentage equals completed required items divided by total required items, expressed as a whole number; optional items do not affect the percentage.

A course is marked complete only when all required modules and the final assessment meet the passing threshold defined in the course settings.

Assessment attempts may be limited per course; the attempt count, highest score, and latest score are all retained in the record.

Passing thresholds are configured per assessment; a common institutional default is 80%, but the course record is authoritative.

Completion records capture learner ID, course ID, completion date, score, and the rules-education version where applicable.

Incomplete or expired enrollments show as in-progress or expired, not complete; expiration dates are set by course or path configuration.

Re-taking a completed course creates a new attempt record; the original completion date is preserved for audit purposes.

Learners can view their own transcript and download completion certificates; certificates reflect the data at time of generation.

Standard reports include enrollment roster, completion status, assessment scores, and rules-education attestation; each can be filtered by date range, course, and role.

Exports are available in CSV and PDF; CSV exports include raw timestamps in the institution's configured time zone.

Compliance documentation must be retained per institutional records-retention policy; the platform retains completion records and does not auto-delete them.

Key roles: Learner, Instructor/Reviewer, CPL Administrator, Compliance Officer, and System Administrator; permissions are cumulative by role assignment.

The Compliance Officer role can view all completion and attestation reports but cannot edit course content or enroll learners.

Audit logs record administrative actions (enrollments, overrides, role changes) with actor, timestamp, and before/after values.

Reports should be generated at the end of each rules-education cycle and archived with the module version number for defensibility.

Access to reports is role-gated; sharing exports outside the institution requires approval under the data-handling policy.

Common access issues: expired single sign-on session, incorrect role assignment, and browser cache conflicts; clearing cache and re-authenticating resolves most cases.

Supported browsers are current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari; unsupported browsers may block assessment submission.

Accessibility features include keyboard navigation, screen-reader labels, adjustable text size, and captions on video content; preferences are saved to the user profile.

Account lockouts after repeated failed logins are released by the CPL Administrator or help desk; users cannot self-unlock.

Role changes require an administrator action and are logged; role changes take effect on next login.

Support tickets should include the page URL, user ID, timestamp, and a description of the expected versus actual behavior.

Password and credential resets follow institutional identity-provider policy; the CPL platform does not store passwords for SSO accounts.

Data export and account deletion requests are handled under institutional privacy policy and require identity verification.