Do you want to reward your members and motivate them to finish your courses? Sharing a course completion certificate when a member finishes a course provides recognition for their achievement, encouraging continued learning and adding value to your online programs.
If you want to make sure that the certificate will be issued only to those students who get a passing grade, then you should use Thrive Apprentice together with Thrive Quiz Builder.
In this article, we’ll show you how you can use the features available in Thrive Quiz Builder and Thrive Apprentice to make sure that the completion certificate will be issued only to those students who get a passing grade.
- Setting Up a Quiz in Thrive Quiz Builder
- Configuring the Result Page in the Quiz
- Creating a Course Using Thrive Apprentice
- Adding the Quiz to a Course
- Configuring the Mark as Complete Setting
- Setting Up the Course Completion Behavior
Setting Up a Quiz in Thrive Quiz Builder
To be able to mark a course as complete the first step is to create a quiz that you can add in a lesson.
So, to create a quiz in Thrive Quiz Builder read our document here.
Configuring the Result Page in the Quiz
While creating a quiz, ensure you’ve configured a results page that’ll help you display the quiz result.
While doing so, it’ll also be a good idea to add a Retake a Quiz link on the Result page. This will let users retake a quiz if they haven’t scored the required result in an attempt.
Creating a Course Using Thrive Apprentice
After you’ve created a quiz and added a results page using Thrive Quiz Builder, the next step is to create a course in Thrive Apprentice.
Adding the Quiz to a Course
Now that you have a quiz and a course on your website, add the quiz in a lesson inside the course. To do so, read this section here.
Configuring the Mark as Complete Setting
When a quiz is added in a course, next, you’ll have to enable the Mark as Complete feature when a user completes a quiz or scores the set results.
To enable the Mark as Complete feature for a quiz in Thrive Apprentice, refer to our document here.
Setting Up the Course Completion Behavior
After you complete all the above mentioned steps, the next step is to set up the course completion behavior.
To manage the Course Completion behavior, first, open the individual course page in Thrive Apprentice and click to open the Course Completion tab.
If you want to customize what happens when a user completes the course, click on the toggle button to Customize course completion behavior.
If you want to know more about course completion behavior, refer to our document here.
To issue a certificate when a user completes the course, click the toggle button to Issue a course completion certificate.
When you enable the setting to issue a certificate on course completion, you’ll see a popup with the Data Processing Agreement for PDF Certificate Creation. To proceed, read this and click on I Agree.
After enabling a certificate that’ll be issued after course completion, you’ll see an option to edit the certificate. To do so, click on Edit with Thrive Architect.
This will open the certificate in the Thrive Architect editor where you can edit and design it further.
To understand certificate issuance on course completion, refer to our document here.
We’ve just seen how you can create a quiz and a course, add the quiz inside the course, mark a lesson complete only after a user completes the quiz, and then issue a certificate on course completion.
To take a virtual tour of this, refer to the video below.
Next, if you want to add a Download Certificate button on a course completion template, refer to our document here.