Certificates come with the Quizzes & certificates add-on, $29 CAD one time for every course on your account. Get it on the Add-ons page in your dashboard's sidebar. Certificates are then on for every course, so there's nothing to set up.
Open your certificate's settings
Open the course's Settings and click When students finish. Give a certificate when they finish is ticked to start with. The certificate under it shows your logo, colours and fonts from your Brand settings, the course's name and your signature. Click it to see it full size.
Pick a style
Under Style, click the one you'd like: Classic (a double frame and a seal), Modern (your colour down one side, with your logo), Elegant (a cream page with a ribbon seal) or Minimal (a band of colour across the top). Each one uses your brand.
Change the wording, if you like
Under The wording, Title is Certificate of completion to start with, Before the course name is has completed, and Signed is your business name. Leave a box empty to keep what it says.
Publish your changes
Go to Publish and click Publish changes. A new style or wording also shows on certificates you've already given.
What students do
Once a student has completed every lesson, and passed each quiz that's needed to complete its lesson, the last lesson says You've earned a certificate! They type the name they'd like on it and click Get my certificate, then View my certificate. Your certificate in their lesson list takes them back to it.
Each certificate's own page
- It shows the certificate, who it was given to, for which course and when, with its Certificate ID.
- Download PDF or print opens the print screen: choose Save as PDF to keep it. It fits one landscape page.
- Copy link copies its address, to share on social media, a CV or in an email. Anyone with the link can see it, so they can check it's real. Search engines are asked not to list it, and the student's email is never on it.
See who has one
Certificates, along the top of the Students page (your dashboard's, or the course's own tab), lists everyone who has one, each linking to its page. On a course's tab it also shows the certificate students get. Each student with one shows Certificate on their row, and Download spreadsheet adds a certificate column with each link.
Good to know
- Course Mark checks on its own servers that a student has finished: every lesson on their path complete, and each quiz that's needed to complete its lesson passed. Optional quizzes don't count.
- The date on it is the day they finished the course.
- Students can fix the name any time with Change the name. The link stays the same.
- Change your brand, and certificates already given show your new look.
- Don't want certificates on a course? In the course's Settings, under When students finish, untick Give a certificate when they finish, then publish. Certificates already given stay.
- Removing a student takes their certificate away, and its link stops working.
- In Preview course you see what students see, but no certificate is made. A downloaded copy of your course doesn't give certificates.
More help guides
Still stuck?
In the builder, click Help and tell me what's happening: I'll see which course you mean. Or email support@coursemark.co.