Certify

June 26, 2009 - 10:16 — Håvard Pedersen

Version:

1.6.2

Short description:

A module that lets you bundle tests in a curse, and issue a pdf certificate to the student when he / she has passed all tests. Student sees a progress bar all the way, instructors have an instructor view.

Blog posts about this:

Announcing Certify!

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Certify Module Issue

August 4, 2009 - 18:38 — Stuart Azad (not verified)

Hello,

I have downloaded the Module Certify, however I am experiencing some issues when trying to upload a certificate (PDF). Is there a different format that I have to use to upload the certificate?

Another question that I have is: where does the certificate appear once the user has successfully completed the test(s).

Any help on this matter would be highly appriciated.

Hia, have you read the

August 4, 2009 - 19:10 — Vegard A. Johansen

Hia, have you read the announcing Certify post? there's quite a bit of info there.

First and foremost, you will need pdftk on your server, you might have to contact a server administrator to get this installed.

If you wish to use a different template than the default one you will have to create that pdf as a pdf template using a program like Adobe Professional. Add whatever graphics you wish, and make sure to add the text fields with the same names as the ones in the default one (we should definately document this better, but for now the best solution is to examine the default one).

The students find it under the "certificates" tab that you can enable as a student tool.

Server Issue

August 4, 2009 - 19:53 — Stuart Azad (not verified)

Thank you for your quick response.

Can/will it work with a different product than pdfk as our server will not accept it.

Thanks

Not likely

August 5, 2009 - 20:44 — Vegard A. Johansen

hia, I'm sorry but I don't think it is likely that we will find a better solution than pdftk soon, but if any developers wish to have a look at it and expand this they are more than welcome to!

Sorry for my english. I've

August 24, 2009 - 11:29 — Massimo Isotti (not verified)

Sorry for my english.
I've installed Certify module i atutor.
When I try using it I've cthis message:
Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, postmaster@haprogetti.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
What can I do?
Thanks

Re: Sorry for my english. I've

August 25, 2009 - 07:46 — Serhiy Kostyshyn

Hi,

It might be a bug in the module itself, or it might be a server configuration problem.
The error message along with the reason should be recorded in your server's error log. If you're using Linux, that's most probably file /var/log/httpd/error_log . Please have a look at it.

It was a server

August 25, 2009 - 10:26 — Massimo Isotti (not verified)

It was a server configuration problem.
Thank you.

Re: It was a server

August 25, 2009 - 10:32 — Serhiy Kostyshyn

It's my pleasure.

Problems with Certificate Status

August 26, 2009 - 12:38 — Max (not verified)

First of all thanks for the module, it's really usefull. In my installation I've got a problem, Certificate Status is always at "0%".

I've taken the test several times, the question (it's a test made for test, it's got only one question) has got one point associated with it. When I finish the test I read that I got 1/1 points but the certificate status is always at 0%.

Any idea?

Bye,
Max

Pass score?

August 27, 2009 - 12:55 — Vegard A. Johansen

Hm, have you set a pass score / percent for the test? Certify tells you how far you are on you way to obtain the pass score(s) set on the test(s) included.

So if you have one test in the certificate, and this test has a pass percent of 75%, Certify will show 100% when you have obtained more that 75% correct in that test.

Yes, I did:

August 27, 2009 - 14:14 — Max (not verified)

Yes, I did: http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/8600/39750837.gif

Ciao,
Max

instructions

August 27, 2009 - 17:40 — William (not verified)

I'd like to see complete instructions on installing this, configuring it with a custom made certificate, etc. I'm not a programmer or web administrator, just a language instructor, and though I thought I knew what I was doing, I can't seem to make this work.

I log is as a full administrator to install the module. that seemed to go well enough. I then enable the module.

Then I log in as an instructor and go to the test I've created, and add the certificate to the test.

The passing score is set at 72%.

All students are showing a "progress" of 0%.

Also - how do I create a custom PDF certificate? I tried opening the default certificate to look at how the fields were named and configured, and Adobe Acrobat simply crashed.

which Atutor version?

August 27, 2009 - 18:57 — Vegard A. Johansen

it's working just fine for us on 1.6.2, and we have not tested it on 1.6.3 just yet - which version of ATutor are you using?

my Atutor version

August 27, 2009 - 19:46 — William (not verified)

This is what I found in the admin's panel:
ATutor Version: 1.6.2.
PHP Version: 5.2.8
MySQL Version: 5.0.67
OS: Linux 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL.wh1smp

instructions

August 27, 2009 - 21:37 — William (not verified)

Let's start from the first problem.
If I create a PDF from scratch, how can I get it to work with the Certify module? Do I add fields to it?

Add text fields

August 28, 2009 - 09:15 — Vegard A. Johansen

Yes, you add correctly named text fields to it. We use Adobe Acrobat Professional to do this, but there are probably other tools as well.

Here are the names of the fields that Certify uses:

course_name
email
full_name
issued_date
score
test_name

(test_name is the name of the certificate)

I'm exactly in the same

August 28, 2009 - 07:35 — Max (not verified)

I'm exactly in the same situation as William, and I also think there could be a lack in documentation. A step-by-step tutorial (covering everything from module download to getting a certificate at a course completion) might be useful.

This is my system:

Database:
1.78 MB
Courses:
2
Users:
17
ATutor Version:
1.6.3. Check Latest Version.
PHP Version:
5.1.4
MySQL Version:
5.0.22-community-nt
OS:
Windows NT 5.2

Ciao,
Max

progress

October 8, 2009 - 00:23 — utor (not verified)

We also had the problem of always showing 0% progress.
I noticed that the table AT_certify_tests in the database was always blank and the page to add tests was always showing the tests unselected, even after selecting all and saving.

The problem turned out to be the following code in certify_tests.php (line 125)

]" value="1">

If your web server's php.ini has "short_open_tag = Off" (default in PHP5?) then [<?= $id ?>] would not expand as expected and the HTML form has bad values.

Fix: change the code to [

<?php
 echo $id 
?>

] or enable short_open_tag on php.ini in the server.

After that, the progress changed to 100% as expected.

But then I got a PDFTK error when downloading the certificate which was logged by the server as "Failed to open PDF file: ATutor/mods/certify/mods/certify/test.pdf". Note "mods/certify" repeated in the path. That can be fixed in download_certificate.php, line 17

$template = dirname(realpath('test.pdf')).'/test.pdf';

Now to create our own templates... :-)

Hope this helps.

OdR

Atutor.no

Certify

Comments

Certify Module Issue

Hia, have you read the

Server Issue

Not likely

Sorry for my english. I've

Re: Sorry for my english. I've

It was a server

Re: It was a server

Problems with Certificate Status

Pass score?

Yes, I did:

instructions

which Atutor version?

my Atutor version

instructions

Add text fields

I'm exactly in the same

progress

reload tests

progress

I understand it. I'm going to

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