Certificates are a powerful tool to enhance your learners’ experience. By increasing motivation and participation, certificates can increase engagement in your learner community, making your Mini Courses more impactful and rewarding.
With Mini Course Generator, setting up certificates is quick and easy, allowing you to effortlessly reward your learners with a sense of accomplishment.
Let’s see how.
Before you Start
Certificates work collection-based. If you’d like to give certificates for a single mini-course, it has to be the only mini-course in its collection.
If your collection’s learners' access setting is everyone can access, the learner name cannot be collected.
Therefore, your certificates {recipient.name} attribute, which is learner name and surname, will be empty at all times.
Certification only works with the first card layout of mini courses. Find detailed information on card layouts in this article.
How to Issue Certificates
On your collection, go to Certification tab and create a certificate.
Now that you created a certificate, learners that complete this collection will earn a certificate.
Two options are available to reward learners, completion certificate or success certificate.
If you’d like to reward every learner that completes the collection, choose Completion Certificate.
If you’d like to set a specific success threshold and reward only the learners above the success threshold, choose Success Certificate and set a success rate.
💡 Success rate of a collection is sum of Mini Course scores divided by the Mini Course number. Mini Course score is the percentage of correct answers given to all quiz questions in a Mini Course. If there aren’t any quiz questions in the Mini Course, score of learner is always 100%.
Customize the Certificate
Now that we’ve decided who gets a certificate when, let’s design what we’d like to share with our learners.
Click on Change Template to see all of our available templates.
Create Template
If you prefer, you can create your own certificates from scratch instead of using our pre-defined templates.
To customize your certificate, click Create Template button, remove the background image and upload your own design from Source.
ℹ️ You can create your certificate in Canva or any other design tool you prefer.
You have the flexibility to add new text blocks as required. You can also remove all existing text blocks and dynamic attributes.
You can modify the style of your text blocks, including adjusting the size, font, and color. Text can be formatted as bold, italic, or underlined. Additionally, you can change the alignment of the text blocks.
You can use four dynamic attributes: Collection name, Recipient name (Learner name), Certificate ID, and the date the certificate was issued.
You can also choose a certificate you’re using for another collection. To do this, find the desired certificate under My Designs when you click on change template.
You can also customize the message displayed when the certificate is earned. The Customize Message area is an HTML editor in which you can embed media, upload images, add a hyperlink and format your text the way you’d like.
Check here for details on how to embed media.
Nice! Our certificate is ready to go. Let’s see how it looks.
Certificates come with a unique Credential ID and a URL for easy validation. Additionally, they are easily shareable on social media, allowing learners to display their achievements with ease. For added flexibility, certificates can be downloaded as JPG files, making them accessible for both online and offline use.
ℹ️ If you have a custom domain set up for your collection, your learners’ credential url will be in line with your custom domain. Click here for further details on custom domains.
Creating a certificate for your collection is quick, simple and takes only a few minutes. Your learners are driven by the promise of recognition, knowing their achievements will be rewarded with a certificate. Plus, the certificates can be shared online effortlessly, offering a great opportunity to enlarge your learner community!