Generate and send certificats automatically by email

[mahmoudmadiou]

Hi, I would like to know if somebody already implemented this.
Generate a custom certificate : I saw some videos, and documentation
Send automatically by email : found nothing about this

I will appreciate any best practice to share

Thanks

[ywarnier]

Hi @mahmoudmadiou

To generate custom certificates, you can either go to the "Assessment" tool in any course, set a default certificate to your liking (upper right icon) and configure the assessment/gradebook itself to generate a certificate (it's a checkbox in the edition - pencil icon - page). When students obtain the minimum score in the course (you have to setup your assessment for that), then when they visit the assessment tool, the certificate is generated.

Alternatively (to have more customization options), you can enable the "Custom certificate" plugin in the admin section, but that's only if your customisation requirements are relatively high.

There is no feature to automatically send an e-mail to users with that. This would need a custom development (which Chamilo providers can do for a price or you can do or hire a PHP developer to do), but the assessment tool allows you to send a notification e-mail to all users who have reached the minimum to get their certificate (but it doesn't send the certificate in itself, they have to come and get it on the platform).

Certificates in Chamilo have a unique ID and can be configured to be viewed publicly, which will transform your Chamilo portal in a certification platform where anyone can follow a certificate link and confirm that your organisation effectively certified the person in the corresponding topic. I feel like very few people use this, still (it's been there for years).