Use certifications when you want to track competency levels in a defined body of knowledge. Users may need to complete a specific learning activity to be certified. They then need to take some ongoing learning activities to retain their certification. Certification / recertification can be granted automatically by the system or be manually recorded for individuals. This feature is particularly useful for organizations with ongoing continuing education requirements.
Certification can offer several levels and can be set to expire at intervals (for example, annually), requiring re-certification. For example, completing a Basic First Aid program certifies the user for a year, then an annual refresher is needed to retain the certification.
Certification is often offered at multiple levels.
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Note: Certifications are not the same thing as completion certificates.
Users are granted certification either manually or when a user completes an activity that sets a system global objective that has been mapped to the certification. Re-certification is granted through global objectives or by extending a user's certification manually. Administrators can edit a person’s certification and change the expiry date. The LMS keeps a history of these edits.
To implement certifications, follow these steps:
Choose the appropriate client or your own organization.
Enable certification for the LMS.
Configure the list of possible certifications and, optionally, the certification levels.
Optionally, assign certifications as prerequisites to learning activities if you are using self-registration and want to control sign-up for an activity based on the learner’s current certifications.
Add certification
to a user's account
- or -
Load content that allows users to earn a certificate or re-certify
by completing learning activities (established in the content's global
objectives).
Note: Re-certification is granted only through global objectives.