The custom certificate can be added just like any other activity in Moodle. Visit a course, turn editing on and click to Add an activity or resource and select Custom certificate from the available options.
Certificate Settings
General
Give your certificate a name and description.
Options
Delivery Options
You can select to have the certificate downloaded to the desktop or open in the browser.
Email students/teachers/others.
These settings enable the emailing of a certificate when a user can view it.
Allow anyone to verify a certificate.
Each certificate when issued is assigned a unique code. It is possible to have this code displayed on the certificate by adding it as an element. To validate a certificate a person (e.g. employer) may want to enter the code displayed on the certificate to confirm that it is indeed authentic.
Required minutes in course.
This is the number of minutes a user is required to be in a course before they can be awarded the certificate. This uses the logs in Moodle and hence can not guarantee the result to be 100% accurate.
Set protection.
This determines what protection we want to set on the PDF.
Restrict Access
In this section you can set parameters that the student must meet in order to receive the certificate.
Save and Display
Editing a custom certificate
Once you have added a certificate to your course you can then choose to edit the appearance of it. To do this click into the certificate and select Edit certificate from the Administration menu.
On the edit page you can see a list of the elements that have already been added to the certificate. You can edit, delete, and move these elements. The order of these elements determines when they are rendered on the PDF. So, if you were to add a background image you would want this rendered first.
You can also choose to load a template on this page.
Adding/editing an element
The above is the list of items that come with this plugin. When editing a custom certificate, you can choose to add an element which will take you to the page to edit them.
Each element defines what characteristics you can edit. In the above example we are editing the 'Date’ element.
Repositioning elements
Under the list of elements there is a link 'Reposition elements' that will take you to a page where you can drag and drop the elements.
While on this page you can also click on the elements to bring up a dialogue that will allow you to edit its properties without having to go back to the edit custom certificate page.
Save and close when you are happy with your certificate. To preview your certificate, click the Save changes and preview on the Edit certificate page.
Viewing issued certificates
To view issued certificates a user with the appropriate permissions can simply click on the certificate and click View certificate.
Once the certificate has been issued you can view who has been issued a certificate by clicking into the certificate activity in Moodle.
