How to Customize Certificates
Providing a certificate for your students at the end of each course is a great way to encourage and reward them for their effort.
Thankfully, onlinecoursehost.com has a variety of eye catchy certificate backgrounds you can issue to your students.
Your students will be able to download a certificate upon completing your course from their dashboard.
In this article, we will walk you through how to customize certificates for your courses by going through these steps:
- Upload a certificate thumbnail.
- Select a certificate background image.
- Enter the certificate's custom title.
Upload a certificate thumbnail
Step 1: Go to your desired course and click on Edit => then select the Certificate tab.
Step 2: Click on the edit button in the empty image box.
Step 3: Next, select an image already saved on your device, and it will automatically be uploaded to the image box as the certificate thumbnail.
Note that the certificate thumbnail isn't the certificate background it will only be displayed as a mini image on top of the certificate and the recommended image size is 563 x 317 pixels.
Also, you can use the delete icon beside the thumbnail to leave this image box blank, and your course image will be displayed as a thumbnail on your certificate.
Select a certificate background image
The certificate background image is what the main design of your certificate will look like.
Now, there are two options you can choose from when selecting a background image for your certificate.
- Select from our amazing list of available backgrounds: To do this, simply click on the circle to highlight this option, then proceed to click on the Select button. Then, scroll through our collection of background images, and click Choose to select an image.
- Upload your own background: To do this, simply click on the option to “Upload your own background.” Then proceed to click on the image box and select an image already saved on your device, and it will automatically upload to the image box.
You can delete the certificate background image by using the bin icon next to the image box.
If you haven't selected any background image, a default background image from our collection of background images will be used for you.
Enter the certificate's custom title
You may want to enter a certificate custom title for your students; perhaps something to congratulate them for completing your course.
By default, the custom title is “Congratulations on completing this course!” but you can change this to your own custom title by clicking the custom title field and inputting your own choice of words.
Note that the certificate custom title can only have a maximum of 60 characters.
After following these simple steps, click the Save button and your certificate will be ready to be downloaded by your students upon completing your course.
This is what a default certificate would look like:
What a fantastic way to approve your students for a course well done!
NOTE: Quizzes and assignments cannot be completed via checkboxes by the students.
The quiz has to be correctly answered and can be reset and retaken by the student if required, but cannot just be marked as completed.
This also means it is required for your students to submit an assignment for your approval, only then is the lesson automatically marked completed.
We recommend that you add assignments and quizzes to your course, as not only does this give way more relevance and meaning to your course, but it also ensures that the students have truly earned the certificate.
How do I preview my certificate?
To preview your certificate, kindly login to your account => click courses => view course => take all your lessons, including the quizzes/assignments => and click Digital Assets. You will be provided with the different ways through which you can get your certificates.
Kindly refer to this link for more information about the certificate badges you can get on onlinecoursehost.com
NOTE: If your course does not require a certificate, you can always make the certificate for any course optional by clicking the 'Disable certificate for this course' button in the top left corner of the certificate page.
