How Do I Send out a Certificate to Students Who have Completed a Blackboard Course?
If you would like your students to automatically receive a completion certificate when they complete a Blackboard Course Successfully, follow the steps below:
There are 2 ways for Blackboard students to receive automated certificates when they have successfully completed their course.
First, be sure that you have set up the appropriate values for a passing grade in the Blackboard Module. The "Grade watch column" indicates the column in the Blackboard Grade Center that is being monitored for the values that are listed. Each value can be separated with a @ symbol. For example, in any Blackboard course, if a student gets an "A" or a "Complete" in the "Total" column, GoSignMeUp will consider it a "pass", or a successfully completed course.
For more information about setting up the grade value, see the help guide, How do I set up the grade center?
Option 1: Assign a Completion Certificate to be E-mailed to the student
Select the appropriate certificate in the COURSE set-up. You can assign this when you ADD a Course or EDIT a Course.
Note: Only Custom Certificates can be selected for this process. Please ask GoSignMeUp Support if you need to create a custom certificate.
Option 2: Assign a Survey (Evaluation) to the course that has a certificate attached
Another option is to have your students receive a SURVEY after they have completed the course successfully. If you select the certificate here, they will get the certificate AFTER they have completed the survey. Be sure that the survey is not marked as "anonymous" because the system needs to know the student's e-mail address and name (to fill in on the certificate).
Note: Be sure to check with GoSignMeUp support to be sure your system has had the survey module activated before you use this option.
IMPORTANT NOTE: DO NOT ASSIGN BOTH METHODS TO THE SAME CLASS!
If you assign the Certificate in the COURSE details (Option 1) AND in the SURVEY (Option 2), your students will get the certificate twice! Once after they receive a passing grade and again after they complete the survey. Decide which method is best for each course and choose either Option 1 OR Option 2.
