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Course Certificate

Course certificate settings and branding.

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Written by Liam Basham
Updated over 5 months ago

About course certificate

When a learner has finished a course, a certificate will be available for download (in pdf-format). Below you can see an example of a Learnster certificate. In this article you will learn how to adjust settings and branding for your learners' certificate.

ℹ️ Course name and participant name are automatically generated to the certificate.

Certificate settings

To add information or change the settings, go to Course Settings > Certificate. See below for more detailed settings descriptions.

Certificate settings descriptions

Setting:

Description:

Certificate of Completion

Choose if the certificate should be enabled for this course.

  • On (green): a certificate will be available for this course.

  • Off (red): the certificate will not be available for this course.

Certificate logo

You can use a custom certificate logotype per course. If a course-specific logotype is not used, the default logotype from Settings > Customize > Certificate > Logotype will be used.

Certificate description

Add a course description that will be displayed on the certificate.

Course instructor

Add the name of the course instructor. Click on the empty text field and start typing to select the course instructor. Course instructor name will be displayed on the certificate. Make sure that the instructors have been assigned the role Instructor and have uploaded a signature in Users > Instructors. Click Use a custom name use if you wish to use a course-specific custom name for the course instructor.

Issuer name

Add the name of your organization or the organization you want to use as the issuer for the certificate.

Issued date

Choose if the course completion date or the date of the user's last finished activity should be used as Issued date.

Show course length

Choose if you want to include course length in the certificate.

Preview the certificate:
Click Settings > Certificate and click the button Preview the certificate

Certificate branding

To customize the certificate's branding, go to Studio > Settings > Customize. These are your default settings which will be used if you haven't specified other in the certificate settings in a specific course.

Logotype: Upload a default logotype to be displayed in the certificate. Supported formats are .jpg, .jpeg and .png with a maximum height of 50 pixels.


Participant name: The color of the course participant name.

Issued by: Type a default Issued by name. This name will be displayed on the certificate if there's no instructor assigned to the course and no custom name is used.

Display signature: If the assigned instructor has uploaded a signature, it will be displayed on the certificate. To add this, upload a signature image to the Instructor’s profile settings (in .png format).

Preview course certificate

You can preview the certificate for each of your courses. Open your course and go to > Settings > Certificate > Preview Certificate.


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