Printing a certificate.

Oct 04, 2011

Hello all,

 I am not sure if this is question has been answered before. During my research on your forums I came across some similar questions  but couldn't find an answer to my problem.

 Our client wants us to print out a certificate of completion which would should get the current  date from the system and name from the student. We have been provided with the template with the important signatures on it. 

So the problem is for me to figure out how to do this in presenter. I do not have any quiz at the end. Most of the content is delivered through video files and testing is being done with quiz-maker and engage interactions.

 Course ends on some video material and there we need to enter the certificate.

 Our course is being hosted on the LMS and will be sent out on cd/dvds too , but we are required to add the certificate within the presenter. Is it possible to do that?

9 Replies
David Anderson

Hi Ayesha,

Did you see this thread on certificate options? You could use something like a web object and ask the student to fill in a few lines of data (name, etc) and use that as a possible way to generate the certificate.

Another option is to use Quizmaker, but only use a blank slide and to generate the customized report.html file. You can customize blank slides to look like your regular course slides so there doesn't have to be a visual break in your course design.

Now, because you're working with video files at the end of your course, you could just as easily include the video files on blank slides in Quizmaker and use Quizmaker's submit button (customize the text label) to move forward through the video screens. You can modify the wording in report.html to remove any mention of "quiz" and "score" to give the report.html a "certificate" look and feel.

Do you think that will help?

Juan Carballo

Please I need some Help with printing certificate at the end of the training.

When you finish a training and pass the test appear a windows with printing option. At this moment you can print the certificate typing your name, but continue open the same windows with the same print option. For that other student in the same machine can print another version of certificate. How can I set the windows to close after click print option. I know that after click finish the windows close, but I need close when click print.

Please help me.

Brian Batt

Hi Juan,

Out of the box, this isn't currently possible.  However, if you edit the quiz.js file (located in the quiz_content folder of your published output) in a text editor, you can make the following change:

Look for:  case "CC_PrintResults":

Before the "break" code, add the following:

[quote]

if (!g_bLMS)

{

if (FF)

{

setTimeout("CloseWindow()", 100);

}

else

{

CloseWindow();

}

}

[/quote]

By making this change, we basically grab the functionality of the Finish button & add it to the end of the Print Results button.  Keep in mind that if an end-user has a pop-up blocker installed (default in the browser Chrome), then the quiz will just exit without displaying the printed results.  

Please note that the above method is not supported by Articulate.

Brian Batt

Hey Dave,

The only reason that I didn't make a screenr was because the results are a little flaky.  When using Chrome, if you click on the Print Results button, it'll close the browser completely and you never see the printed results.  This is because the default for Chrome is to block new windows.  Thus, it blocks the printed results and then we exit the content.  So, this is a "use at your own risk" unsupported workaround.

Bradley Craig

Hi,

I am trying to create a certificate in 2013 as I did before in Presenter 09. But it does not seem to work.  I did it the same way in past as described here;|
http://www.articulate.com/support/quizmaker-13/how-to-create-certificates-by-customizing-the-reporthtml-file

Previously I would:


1.  publish it for manual uploading to Articulate Online
2.  Rename the output file to have a .ZIP extension
3.  Unzip it
4.  Navigate in the unzipped folder to where you find the report.html file
5.  Replace the report.html with the one in the zip file above
6.  Place the quizimages folder in the same folder as the report.html

The quiz is in the 2013 presentation, and I update the report.html and add the file quizimages, but it does not generate a certificate.

Any suggestions?

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