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Hi everyone,
New here - love Forma - perfect for what I need to do. (Coming from Moodle - way too complicated.)
I have figured out most things I need to do - FORMA is very intuitive - thanks to the developers.
Anyway, a question with certificates - could someone explain the difference between "Certificates" and "Meta Certificates".
I've read the DoceboLMS 4.x manual and don't understand the purpose of Aggregated/Meta certificates.
With a test student I can allocate an automatic certificate to a course and it appears for download or print under "Certificates", which is what I need, so cannot see a use for the "Meta/Aggregated Certificate" section - but then I don't know what it is for so I might use it if I did know.
Thanks,

Hi
welcome on board!
Aggregated certificates are actually very rarely used (I've never seen anybody use them). They are a certificate that puts together your completion of several courses, not only one.

Like

[display_name] has passed
course 1
course 2
course 3
course 4

Thanks Max,
That makes sense now when I read the manual and go through the process of setting up a meta-certificate.
So for example - as you indicate - might have 4 "little" courses that combine to make up one "big" course, with all the "little" courses listed separately.
All makes sense.
Could be very useful here in Australia where with a formal qualification under our vocational education system a student might pick 10 subjects (we call them units of competency) out of a total of 20 available for a full qualification, with each student getting the full qualification/certificate but with each students individual units listed - each student might pick a different selection of units to study depending on the outcomes they require. Very nice!
Thanks again for prompt answer,
Dave.

Nuevo aqui

Requiero generar certificados para diferentes cursos, es decir utilizar una plantilla y que automaticamente genere el certificado para los alumnos. Favro enviar el ejemplo

Hi, bienvenido!

sorry, we speak a little Spanish but we need to limit the discussions to Italian and English.
- Create a certificate template, with a background (jpg) of 842x595 and using all the tags you need
- assign the certificate to your courses, setting that only those who have completed the course will get the certificat
- enjoy!

(there is a lot of other things you need to know, but you better start by reading the tutorials and the manual available on this forum)