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Course certificates are a great way to acknowledge learners for completing their course. On our platform, you can quickly create a certificate for anyone who completes a course. You can customize certificates, but customization options vary depending on your plan. The free plan provides essential tools to help you design a simple, effective certificate, while paid plans unlock advanced design features and greater flexibility.
In the sections below, you’ll find step-by-step instructions for creating and editing certificates on both free and paid plans.
Free Plan
Click Courses
Click Edit on the desired course
Select Certificates
Click Edit
In the first step there tick the box to turn on certificates for this course/ untick to turn off certificates for this course:
In the second section enter the cert title, organisation name (if different than your main Enlight organisation name), and additional text for the certificate (if desired):
Certificate signatures are an organisation-wide setting, To add a signature to your certificates, go to "Organisation > Course Settings" and upload a signature image (and name/position) there. It will then appear on your certificates as shown in the theme samples.
To customise your certificate layout:
You can choose from one of the four default themes.
Note: You must choose a theme or no certificates will be sent! So make sure you select one of them.
You have the option on higher plans to make custom certificates. See How to customise your certificates for details.
Viewing and sending certificates:
A link to the students certificate is automatically emailed to the student on course completion if:
"Send a certificate on completion of their course?" is ticked in these settings (above)
Or, the "Purchase Checksheet" step is enabled in the "Final" section of the course checksheet (see below)
If you wish to view or resend the students certification:
Go to "ACTIVITY > Enrollments"
Select "Completed" as the course status type
Find the student's enrollment for the applicable course
Then ...
To view a student's certificate:
Find the student's enrollment for the applicable course and click "Certificate PDF"
To re-send a students certificate:
Find the student's enrollment for the applicable course and click "Send Certificate Again"
Confirm that you wish to email the student their certificate link.
They should very shorty get an email with link to their course certificate.
Other information:
Having student pay for their certificate (on free courses):
You have the option of prompting a student to pay for an otherwise free course. It is an optional step - if the student does pay for it then they will receive the course completion certificate. You set the price for this, or you can set a minimum price and have the student optionally pay more (what they believe it was worth).
To set this up edit the course checksheet, go to the "Final" section and select "Purchase Certificate" and fill in the corm questions for this.
What are those strange long numbers on the certificates?
The number printed on the bottom (or elsewhere) of each certificate is a "UUID" - a Universally Unique IDentifier. A UUID is used for information in computer systems and are practically unique (the way UUIDs are generated the probability that a UUID will be the same as another UUID anywhere in the world .... is basically zero!). So it is on the certificate for validation purposes - if anyone queries the certificate or thinks someone may have a forged/faked certificate they can ask you to verify the UUID number. That's why it is printed on all certificates.
Paid Plan
Click Courses
Click Edit on the desired course
Select Certificates
Click Edit
In the first step there tick the box to turn on certificates for this course/ untick to turn off certificates for this course:
In the second section enter the cert title, organisation name (if different than your main Enlight organisation name), and additional text for the certificate (if desired):
You can also add additional info on the certificate:
To modify the date format, see:
You can show organization signature as well.
To move elements up, use negative values, such as -10, -20, etc. To move them down, use positive values, such as 10, 20, etc.
For horizontal positioning, negative values move elements to the left and positive values move them to the right:
To set certificate signatures:
Certificate signatures are an organisation-wide setting, To add a signature to your certificates, go to "Organisation > Course Settings" and upload a signature image (and name/position) there. It will then appear on your certificates as shown in the theme samples.
To customise your certificate layout:
You can choose from one of the four default themes.
Note: You must choose a theme or no certificates will be sent! So make sure you select one of them.
You have the option on higher plans to make custom certificates. See How to customise your certificates for details.
Viewing and sending certificates:
A link to the students certificate is automatically emailed to the student on course completion if:
"Send a certificate on completion of their course?" is ticked in these settings (above)
Or, the "Purchase Checksheet" step is enabled in the "Final" section of the course checksheet (see below)
If you wish to view or resend the students certification:
Go to "ACTIVITY > Enrollments"
Select "Completed" as the course status type
Find the student's enrollment for the applicable course
Then ...
To view a student's certificate:
Find the student's enrollment for the applicable course and click "Certificate PDF"
To re-send a students certificate:
Find the student's enrollment for the applicable course and click "Send Certificate Again"
Confirm that you wish to email the student their certificate link.
They should very shorty get an email with link to their course certificate.
Other information:
Having student pay for their certificate (on free courses):
You have the option of prompting a student to pay for an otherwise free course. It is an optional step - if the student does pay for it then they will receive the course completion certificate. You set the price for this, or you can set a minimum price and have the student optionally pay more (what they believe it was worth).
To set this up edit the course checksheet, go to the "Final" section and select "Purchase Certificate" and fill in the corm questions for this.
What are those strange long numbers on the certificates?
The number printed on the bottom (or elsewhere) of each certificate is a "UUID" - a Universally Unique IDentifier. A UUID is used for information in computer systems and are practically unique (the way UUIDs are generated the probability that a UUID will be the same as another UUID anywhere in the world .... is basically zero!). So it is on the certificate for validation purposes - if anyone queries the certificate or thinks someone may have a forged/faked certificate they can ask you to verify the UUID number. That's why it is printed on all certificates.
