Design Courses & Issue Certificates in Moodle

  1. Create a new course

  • Log in to Moodle with an admin account.

  • On the main page → click Site administration → find Add a new course Clean

  • Enter information such as course name, short name, and set course visibility to Show. Clean

  • Click Save and display

  • Add lesson content

  • In the course → Select Question Bank Clean

  • Select Create a new question Clean

  • You must select a question type to create a new question, e.g.: Multiple choice,… -> click Add Clean

  • Fill in the required information or select the options for the question, then click Save Changes to save the question.

  • Do the same with the Content Bank section to add theory to the course

  1. Install the certificate plugin
  • Go to https://moodle.org/plugins, search for the Custom Certificate plugin -> download
  • In the terminal, run the command scp -i ~/Downloads/mykey.pem path/to/mod_customcert_moodle41_*.zip ubuntu@yourip:/tmp/ to upload the mod file from your computer to the Ubuntu server
  • Access Moodle via browser
  • You will see a Current release information table, scroll down and select continue Clean
  • Then the plugin installation page appears, the customcertificate plugin has been added to the system → click “Upgrade Moodle database now” to complete. Clean

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  • If you do not want to change anything, leave the default settings and click save changes The Custom Certificate plugin has been successfully installed on your Moodle!
  1. Use the Custom Certificate plugin
  • Go to any course
  • Main page → Select a course → Turn editing on
  • Add an activity or resource
  • You will see an item “Custom certificate” in the list of activities
  • Click to add it