# Certificate Link is Not Appearing on Instructor Dashboard **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Operators\ **Created:** [November 29, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/certificate-link-is-not-appearing-on-instructor-dashboard/936 "2019-11-29T14:51:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![samuelallan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@samuelallan](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/samuelallan)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/certificate-link-is-not-appearing-on-instructor-dashboard/936/11 "2020-04-23T00:03:26Z")
@chinmaybhatk @deep06 We recently ran into similar issues with certificates. Here are some tips that may help. If the ‘Certificate’ tab is not shown on the instructor dashboard: in the Django Admin, navigate to “Certificates” \> “Certificate generation configurations”, then select “Add certificate generation configuration”. Check “enabled” and save. ![1587093298](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/openedx/original/1X/b8f5c1b40eb64aea9855a3825805097130a0063b.png) If you want to enable ‘Student-Generated Certificates’ for a self-paced course, but the button to enable it isn’t shown on the instructor dashboard “Certificates” tab: student generated certificates should be auto enabled for self-paced courses, and so the button is hidden. Sometimes though, there is a bug that causes student generated certificates to not be auto enabled for self-paced courses. There are two options when this happens: 1. Apply the patch from [edx/edx-platform#23735](https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/pull/23735) to unhide the button. Then you can click the button to enable student-generated certificates. 2. Perform an action from Studio that will trigger a publish event. For example, make a change to a unit and publish the changes. This should trigger the action to enable student-generated certificates. Note that this is simpler because it doesn’t require code changes, but it may not be reliable - option 1 is more reliable. --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/certificate-link-is-not-appearing-on-instructor-dashboard/936)._