How to generate certificate after passing course

Hi @emmanaes - another solution that you might be interested in? We’ve previously used an email template and used HTML to make it look like a certificate. It had a border around it with an official logo at the top, the course name and then piped text for the participant name. We figured that if people wanted to print a copy of it, they could simply print the email out and it seemed to work fine for our purposes.

Unfortunately it was in my previous role so I no longer have access to the code but from memory it was basically a table with only the outer border, and then fields in the centre to ensure the alignment.

@ashleigh_quaill Thank you for your input here! 

If you formatted the email to look like a certificate, you could set a trigger to send the email to the respondent after they completed the survey. Or you could have the certificate saved on a shared drive and have the survey go to the file link after the survey is complete.

Great idea!

The no code way to do a custom certificate would be to create the certificate without a name and save it as a graphic. Then using the Rich Text Editor in Qualtrics you can inlude the graphic and use piped text to position their name in the right place at the right size. You could do this in email but because every email client handles HTML differently its harder to get a consistent experience in the layout without getting into the underlying code. It also adds a bunch more junk to the printed page if they choose to print it.  

My recommendation would be to do this with the End of Survey message so they can then print to PDF using their browser functions and there is no chance the certificate is lost to spam filters or internet gremlins.

If you are willing to use a little HTML/CSS at the code level you can create a simple button on the page that makes it easier (and more obvious) to print. Think recipe websites.

The HTML looks like this:

<button class="printbutton" onclick="window.print()">Your Button Text</button>

You can then use CSS to make the button prettier… or not and it will look like a standard basic operating system button.

Consider that if you do add a button (or anything else), then it will print with the document unless you do a little more HTML and CSS to make parts of the page unprintable.

Welcome to the coding slippery slope. Its ok. There’s cookies at the bottom.

This can surely be used somewhere :)