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Issue course certificates

Create a certificate for your course, set where the student's name and details show on it, then issue it to students automatically when they complete the course, or by hand. These steps are for the platform admin.

Steps to create the certificate​

  1. From Courses in the dashboard, click Edit Curriculum for the course you want to issue a certificate for.

    The Courses page and the Edit Curriculum button of a course

  2. Go to the Certificates page, then click Create New Certificate.

    The course Certificates page and the Create New Certificate button

  3. Create the certificate:

    • Type a name to identify the certificate in the Name field.
    • Upload the certificate image in the Certificate Base Image field. The image must have the space of a full line to write the student's name.
    • Click Create Certificate.

    The create new certificate form with the name field, the base image and the Create Certificate button

  4. To change the certificate, click its name in the table, or click the ⋯ (Actions) button at the end of its row, then click Edit.

    The list of certificates and the edit certificate button

  5. Change the certificate as you like:

    • You can change the certificate Name.
    • Choose whether to issue the certificate automatically or not, with the Issue this certificate automatically option.
    • Change the place and size of the student's name with Name Offset (from top) and Font Size.
    • To add the student's national ID, turn on Show national ID, then change its place and size.
    • To add the issue date, turn on Show issue date, then change its place and size.
    • To add a QR code, turn on Show QR code, then choose the QR Code Position and change the QR Code Scale.
    • Click Save Changes.

    The edit certificate window with the auto-issue, national ID, issue date and QR code options

    The QR code position and scale settings and the Save Changes button

Note

A course can have many certificates, but only one of them can be issued automatically. Automatic issue works only if the course has at least one milestone target.

Send the certificate​

If you turned on automatic issue, the certificate is issued when the student completes the course.

If the certificate is not issued automatically, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Students page of the course.

  2. Find the student you want to send the certificate to, and click Edit.

    The list of students in the course and the Edit button next to a student

  3. Click the Actions tab.

    The edit student page and the Actions tab

  4. Choose the certificate in the Select a certificate to issue field.

    The Select a certificate to issue field in the Actions tab

  5. Click Issue Certificate.

    The chosen certificate and the Issue Certificate button

The certificate is sent in an email to the student.

The issued certificate in the Actions tab and the Revoke Certificate button

The email the student gets with the certificate link

The student's issued certificate page and the button to download the certificate as an image