YES…Absolutely!
Many instructors who are launching their e-courses, and even students, wonder about the validity and legality of issuing certificates.
In order to answer this question, it is first necessary to understand that a short course is not intended to graduate students, but to update or improve a certain knowledge.
These courses are sought after by people seeking to enhance their skills and improve their position in the work market.
– E learning and Corporate Training
Thus, it is understood that if the course is not technical, technological or superior, it is a short course, and individuals and institutions can minister these courses and issue certificates to prove participation.
So, make your online courses with certificates without fear!
And if you want to know how, check out some tips on how to produce your own certificate.
1. Information
A certificate is a formal document, and to create one you need information.
To begin, gather the data that should appear in the document, which, although they may vary depending on the course, are most often the following:
Name of the student;
Name of course;
Teacher’s name;
Course date;
Workload;
Signature of the person in charge of the institution/course.
Other information, such as company responsible for the course (if applicable), the law that regulates the course, the institution’s website, the learning platform used, etc. may be added if necessary.
2. Template
The layout of the certificate is important because it transmits formal character and gives greater credibility to the document.
With the data mentioned above in hand, time to arrange them in the template, which must be clean, readable and well organized.
If you are using a website that has ready-made templates for formatting your certificate, such as Canva, for example, it will guide your next steps..
But if you prefer to do a custom, using tools like PowerPoint, you can choose to insert some graphic elements, such as your school logo.
3. Emission
Task that demands work in online courses with certificate, the issuance of the document can be done in different ways.
Manual Issue
After creating your first certificate, save the document in editable mode, as your first choice is to edit the file with the name of each student.
Carefully enter each student’s name and change other information if necessary, save and send one by one. Or, if it is to be printed, make multiple copies of the main template and leave blanks to fill with the variable data with a pen.
Easier emission
Want to make this process more efficient and put it on automatic? There are softwares that can help you. On the Internet you can find some specialized platforms for this type of service.
4. Digitized signature
If you are creating online courses with certificate, and are responsible for the lessons and information that appear in the document, it should carry your signature.
To do this, either you print everything, sign one by one and mail it to each student, or make everyone’s life easier and digitizes your signature.
Anyway, by following these simple tips, you can create online courses with certificate and add this differential to your course.
Summing Up
Once you are able to execute all of these steps, you need to get started! Launch your online course and hit the ground running.
Also there are many different online platforms that make it easy for you to create an online course and issue certificates but I would recommend you to choose Coursefunnels.
Why?
Because it not only offers a wide range of features to create, sell and advertise courses but it also helps you to generate beautiful certificates for your students on course completion.
I hope this helped, let me know if you have other questions. I would be happy to help further. :)