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?
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.
I would also like to see this feature. I am about to embark on creating a number of certifications using story line, and a requirement is that at the end of each module the user will receive a certificate (if they pass). Think this would be a good enhancement for future versions of the software.
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?
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.
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 - 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.
Crazy coincidence... ... I received that exact question form a friend of mine earlier today. While that might be possible, I did not incorporate a time stamp for an automatic date placement. My experience with Acrobat Pro is relatively novice-level and I am not sure how to accomplish this task.
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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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.
I would also like to see this feature. I am about to embark on creating a number of certifications using story line, and a requirement is that at the end of each module the user will receive a certificate (if they pass). Think this would be a good enhancement for future versions of the software.
Hi Aman! Yes, totally agree. Keep the feature requests coming.
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?
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.
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.
Nice solution, Michael - thanks for sharing!
Michael - do you know if an Acrobat form could be customized to include the date? Also if it could be embedded into Storyline?
Crazy coincidence... ... I received that exact question form a friend of mine earlier today. While that might be possible, I did not incorporate a time stamp for an automatic date placement. My experience with Acrobat Pro is relatively novice-level and I am not sure how to accomplish this task.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm rather a novice at Acrobat Pro as well. Maybe it's time to get to know it better.
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.
I accomplished this by inserting a java variable in storyline. Worked like a charm.
Hi Lindsey! I'm not sure if Maya is subscribed to the thread, so you might want to shoot her a PM
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