Custom Certificate

The Custom Certificate plugin lets you replace the standard gradebook certificate with your own design — logos, a seal, up to four signature images with captions, a background image, margins, and content built from placeholder tags.

Turning It On for Your Course

After your administrator enables the plugin and sets a default template, turn it on per course from Course Settings:

• Custom certificate enable in course — Activates the feature for this course

• Use default custom certificate — Uses the platform's default template instead of designing your own (these two options are mutually exclusive; Chamilo warns you if you try to enable both)

This makes a Certificate setting tool available in your course, where you design or edit the template.

Designing the Certificate

The certificate editor uses tags that get replaced with real data when a learner's certificate is generated, for example ((user_firstname)), ((course_title)), ((gradebook_grade)), and ((date_certificate)). Beyond content, you can set:

• Up to three logos, a seal image, and a background image

• Up to four signature images, each with its own caption

• Margins and the delivery/expedition date and place shown on the certificate

Use Certificate to preview your design, or Delete certificate to remove a course's custom template.

Tips

• Students see nothing different — They still download their certificate the normal way from the Gradebook; it just uses your template

• Preview before relying on it — Check the preview with real placeholder data to catch layout issues before learners start generating certificates

• Coordinate with your administrator — If you want a platform-wide default template rather than a one-off per course, that's set up by your administrator first