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Certificates now offer a new option called Auto-issue upon completion found inside the Issue Options section of course certificate settings. When selected, this new option issues a certificate when users meet the criteria for obtaining a certificate, if they have not already acquired it.
Administrative
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set up
1. Enabling Auto-issue upon completion for the site
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If you would like to schedule the auto-issue at a different time or more frequently, simply request that your Refined Specialist schedule this task for you.
Setting up the certificate in the course
Create the certificate as usual. In the Issue Options section of the certificate creation screen, enable Auto-issue upon completion for the certificate:
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 | When certificates are set to deliver via email, the first run of the Auto-issue task will deliver all previously un-issued certificates to users. In addition, managers who are set to be notified when one of the users they are managing receives a certificate will also receive this notification upon auto-issuance of certificates. |
Using Groupings with Auto-issue upon completion
Multiple certificates with Auto-issue upon completion can be set inside a course, all linked to the same or different activities. Only those users in the specified groupings will be issued a certificate when the Auto-issue task runs overnight.
First you must set up [[groupings]] in the course. (https://refineddata.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/202354884#Common_Module_settingssee section in linked article 'Common Module Settings'). Then, in the certificate set-up, select which grouping will receive the certificate:
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Even if all users access the same activity, they will be emailed their grouping-specific certificate when the Auto-issue feature runs overnight unless they have already accessed them inside the course.
Reporting
All certificates issued by Auto-issue upon completion appear in the Flexible Certificates/Completion report when filtered for by short name of the course. The certificate completions are also available using the report builder data source called Course Completion (by certificate).