Certificate Builder

Give students a certificate when they finish a course. You design it once in the built-in builder, and Academy LMS fills in each student’s name, course and date. No page builder plugin is needed.

Turn on the Certificates add-on in Academy LMS → Add-ons first. It comes with ready-made designs.

Pick the certificate students get

Go to Academy LMS → Courses → Certificates.

Students get no certificate until one is marked Primary. Open the ··· menu of a certificate and choose Make Primary.

If you see Action Required: Download Fonts, click Download Fonts first. Certificate PDFs cannot be created without them.

Create your own certificate

The builder opens. Drag blocks such as Text, Image, QR code, Signature and Date from the Blocks panel onto the page.

Inside any text, add fields that fill in automatically:

Use Page Setup to change the size later, and click Save.

Use a different certificate for one course (Pro)

Open the course, go to the Settings step and scroll to Certificates. Click Select Certificate and choose one. This course now uses it instead of the Primary certificate.

Let people verify a certificate (Pro) {#verification}

Anyone with the certificate number can check that a certificate is real, for example an employer or a university. Visitors don’t need an account.

Before you start, make sure your certificate design shows {{verification_code}}. Without it, holders have nothing to type in.

1. Copy the shortcode

Go to Academy LMS → Tools → Shortcodes and copy Certificate Verification:

[academy_pro_certificate_verification]

2. Add it to a page

Create a page, for example “Verify a Certificate”, and add the form one of two ways:

Publish the page.

3. Check it works

Open the page, type a certificate number and click Verify Certificate.

Verification only matches certificates issued on your own site.

Troubleshooting