[ARCHIVED] More fields to the certificate?

[eamtsberg]

Is there a way to add additional fields to the Catalog certificate?

These are standard:

student_name: The name of the student
catalog_name: The name of the school or institution
catalog_logo: The URL of your catalog logo;  
award_name: The name of the certificate
completion_date: The date of completion

Is there an easy way to generate: Course Title, Course ID, Course SIS ID ?

Title an ID would be helpful, since you could get a certificate for completing a course, not an entire program.

[michelle_steven]

 @kathy_harris ‌ has modified our certificates. She may be able to help you.

[kathy_harris]

I have not added any additional Catalog Generated items to the certificate. I have done custom certificates and hard coded everything. I believe I asked, too, if we could use any other info from the course, and I was told that those items that you listed are the only items that we can pull automatically from the course. (Unfortunately!!! The only items that I find helpful are the student name and the course completion date.)

One suggestion I have, though, you could put the Course Title as the name of the certificate, and call it in that way. Other than that, I would suggest hard coding a custom certificate.

Tip: (sorry if you already know this!!) To get a certificate border, host a .jpg of a blank certificate somewhere on the web, and use html coding to call in the .jpg image as the background image.

[kathy_harris]

I'm also going to tag the https://community.canvaslms.com/groups/catalog-users-group?sr=search&searchId=e01cd16c-e5a6-479f-8b5...‌ to see if anyone there has any suggetions.

[eamtsberg]

Thanks for the input. The thought of creating individual certificates makes my head hurt.  It just seems odd to me that you can't pass variables that are already stored in Catalog.

[davi]

I agree that not being able to pull in the course_title and other course-specific content is a glaring oversight on the part of the Catalog team. Yes it can be hard coded to the html since the custom certificate is unique to the course, but this requires customizing the code on every certificate.

[jsowalsk]

You can host that information on a server with a PDF filled in with this information or even try some HTML code.

Such as something like this:

<div style=" position: absolute; box-sizing: border-box; width: 10.6in; height: 7.5in; margin:auto; margin-top: 40px; border: 4px solid #000; padding: 1em; text-align: center; overflow: hidden;">

      <img id="logoFEMA" src="http://www.start.umd.edu/sites/default/files/images/FEMA_Logo_Blue.jpg" alt="Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)"  width="310" height="110" style="position: absolute; bottom: .5in; left: .5in;">

      <img id="logoSTART" src="{{catalog_logo}}" alt="National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)"  width="300" height="61" style="position: absolute; bottom: .75in; right: .5in;">

      <p style="font-size: 250%;">Certificate of Completion</p>

      <p>Awarded to</p>

      <p style="font-style: italic; font-size:200%;">{{student_name}}</p>

      <p>For Completing</p>

      <p style="font-size: 150%;">Community-led Action in Response to Violent Extremism</p>

      <p>{{completion_date}}</p>

      <p>4 Contact Hours</p>

      <p style="font-weight: bold;">

        Developed by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism

        <br>

        in cooperation with the

        <br>

        Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency

      </p>

    </div>

[davi]

Thank you, Jessica. This helped me get much further along.

[jsowalsk]

No problem. Glad to help.