Enhanced Certificate Generation: Completion, Grades, and Tiers

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@TomS, yes, we plan to introduce a verification mechanism. We considered adding a separate UUID that could be shared with a third party. It would not allow them to download the PDF from the LMS, but they would rather use it in a web form (with an API available) that would display the certificate’s metadata (learner’s name, course name, date, etc.).

Adding a QR code or a verification link is also an option; however, for PDF certificates, it means that the URL would need to be maintained indefinitely, as there would be no option to update it for existing certificates.

To prevent less technical users from tampering with the certificate contents, we encrypt each PDF file with a random password to only allow printing and extracting text from it and forbid other actions (see “TABLE 3.20 User access permissions”).

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Thanks a lot. Sounds good! I understand the concerns about the Link/QR code. On the other hand the QR code was a real benefit for employers as they wer easily able verify the certificates. I don’t have any numbers though how many actually used it.

Just a thought on the encryption of the certificates: On our previous platform, we also encrypted our certificates in the beginning. However, we removed that later on as we received lots of complaints from our learners that they were not able to merge several certificates into one PDF file, e.g. to add a single PDF including all certificates and other records in an application form or email.

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