Customised Certificate

Aug 07, 2012

Hi,

I am customising the certificate at the end of a test. I want to add several fields to the certificate, including; name, company and date. How do I do this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Nicola

14 Replies
Jeanette Brooks

Hi Nicola!  Quizmaker doesn't really offer a certificate feature that allows learners to customize or print a certificate of completion, but if this is something you'd like to see in a future enhancement, our dev team appreciates feature requests! In the meantime, one possibility would be to modify the Print Results feature in Quizmaker so that it creates a printable certificate rather than just showing the usual quiz results. Here's a knowledgebase article with more info about that, if you'd like to explore the idea.

Michael Culligan

I have successfully reconfigured the html file to generate a formated certificate where the course report used to be.  When users print the "report.html" document, however, the printed paper comes pre-formatted with a header (providing the url) and footer (including page 1 of 1 and the date/time stamp.  Do you have any suggestions with regard to the best way to remove these pre-programmed formats from the printed certificate?

Jeanette Brooks

Hey Michael - the information you're seeing in the header/footer of the printed html page is coming from the browser's settings; it isn't something that can be controlled from within Quizmaker or the published quiz. Your browser, however, may allow you to turn the header/footer off. This resource has some info about that.

Michael Culligan

As a work around, I have developed my certificate in Adobe Acrobat Pro, making the document a customizable form.  There was  a bit of a challenge that results from Quizmaker's inability to attach files (unless I am missing something.  To circumvent this limitation, I embedded the quizmaker inside a Presenter document and had the quiz navigate to the last Presenter page (with the Adobe customizable form link) upon successful completion of the quiz.

This workaround makes the form personalized, customizable and printable without printer header/footers.

Sue Lorusso

Michael - do you know if an Acrobat form could be customized to include the date? Also if it could be embedded into Storyline?

Michael Culligan said:

As a work around, I have developed my certificate in Adobe Acrobat Pro, making the document a customizable form.  There was  a bit of a challenge that results from Quizmaker's inability to attach files (unless I am missing something.  To circumvent this limitation, I embedded the quizmaker inside a Presenter document and had the quiz navigate to the last Presenter page (with the Adobe customizable form link) upon successful completion of the quiz.

This workaround makes the form personalized, customizable and printable without printer header/footers.

Michael Culligan

Anyone reading this thread should know that there have been updates to Acrobat Reader that make this work around problematic.  Depending on the internet browser your end user launches, many .pdf files are now being forced to open in internet browsers NOT Adobe Reader. 

This puts a wrench in this work around because the customizable PDF forms option does not work in browsers.  According to Adobe support, the option of whether a .pdf files in a browser or in Acrobat Reader is determined by end user configuration  setting of Acrobat Reader.

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