Create a custom certificate
The custom certificate allows you to design and issue PDF certificates to students in recognition of their achievement in your Moodle course.
You can issue certificates for completion of a particular activity or attaining a particular grade in a quiz, or for completion of a whole course.
You can customise the certificate with a number of dynamic fields, layouts and design and colours, logos and signatures. These are known as elements.
Certificate templates are now available with the new Warwick branding in a range of brand colours.
Instead of issuing certificates, you may consider using badges - digital awards that are displayed in a user's Moodle profile.
In this guide:
Table of contents
Add a custom certificate
- Enable Edit mode .
- Click the Add content button and select Activity or resource.
- Select Custom certificate from the list.
- Give the Custom certificate a Name and Description.
- Click the Options header to expand the section.
- Select whether to email a copy of the certificate to students or teachers using the Email students and Email teachers drop-down menus.
- Under Set protection, select whether to prevent users from printing, modifying or copying the certificate.
- Amend any other settings as preferred and click Save and display.
Use a Warwick brand template
- Go to the Edit certificate tab of the certificate.
- To load the template, scroll down to Load template and choose one of the options. All templates contain the same background and text elements:
- Background image (contains the Warwick crest and wordmark on a coloured background)
- Certificate of Completion
- This is to certify that
- [Student name]
- has successfully completed the course
- [Course name]
- [Completion date]
- You will be asked to confirm that you wish to load the template. Note that if you have already designed a certificate here it will be overwritten. If you need to keep the existing layout, create a brand new custom certificate activity, as above. Otherwise, click the Continue button to confirm.
- Click the Save changes and preview button to preview the certificate at any time.
Click through the slides to see how to load an existing template.
Design your own certificate
You do not have to use one of the templates; you can design your own certificate.
Load one of the Warwick templates and then add/remove/edit elements to customise the certificate to your desired design.
- Go to the Edit certificate tab.
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By default the width and height are set up for an A4 certificate. You may change these as well as the margins as required.
- Click the drop-down list that says Background image to see which elements can be added to the certificate.
- Select an element and click the Add element button.
- You can edit the name of an element to enable you to better identify it. Click the Edit button next to the name, enter the new name and click Enter to save it.
- In the Actions column, you can Edit, Delete or move elements up or down the list.
- Edit options vary according to the element type but may include font type and colour, date format.
- Click the Reposition elements link to preview the certificate and drag each element to the desired position. Hover over an element and drag it to move.
- Click the Save changes and preview button to preview the certificate at any time.
Go to the Restrict access section of the certificate settings to keep it unavailable until participants have fulfilled the required criteria. See the Restrict access to activities and sections and Completion tracking guides for more information.