You can reward your learners with a personalized certificate when they complete a Mindsmith lesson or course. Certificates are automatically generated as PDF files and can be downloaded directly by the learner, providing a great way to verify compliance or celebrate learning milestones.
Enabling Certificates
You can turn on certificates for any individual lesson or full course.
To enable certificates:
Open your lesson or course in the editor.
Click the Settings button in the top toolbar to open the settings menu.
Click on the Grading tab.
Scroll to the bottom and toggle on Include Certificate.
Note: The certificate feature requires a paid plan (Professional or Business+). The toggle will be disabled if you are on a free plan, or if your content is currently being viewed inside a learning management system (LMS) that handles its own certification.
Setting Completion Requirements
To ensure learners actually earn their certificate, you should verify your completion requirements within the same settings menu.
While in the Grading tab, you can adjust the following settings:
Passing Percentage: Set a minimum score required to pass.
Completion Criteria: Choose whether learners must pass the assessment, or if they need to both pass the assessment and view all content.
Require Interactives: Mandate that learners complete all interactive tiles before finishing.
Learners will only trigger the certificate download prompt after successfully meeting all of the criteria you set here.
How Learners Receive Certificates
The certificate generation process is completely automated and requires no manual work from your team.
When a learner meets the completion criteria:
A completion dialog will automatically appear on their screen.
The system will ask the learner to enter their Name and Email address.
Once they fill in both fields, they can click the Download Certificate button.
A customized PDF document will instantly download to their device.
The downloaded PDF will automatically include the learner's name and the title of your lesson or course.