Certificates and Skills

Chamilo allows you to award certificates to learners who meet specific achievement criteria, and to validate skills associated with those achievements.

How Certificates Work

Certificates are linked to the Assessments (also called Gradebook). When a learner's grade meets or exceeds the minimum threshold you define, a certificate becomes available for them to download.

The workflow is:

1. Set up the Assessments with your exercises, assignments, and other graded activities

2. Define a minimum certification score (e.g., 70%)

3. When a learner reaches that score, they can download their certificate (either within the Assessments tool itself, or from a learning path if you've configured the final step for that). As a teacher, you can also use the Generate certificates action in the gradebook to create the PDFs in batch for all eligible learners.

Certificate Templates

Certificates use templates defined by the platform administrator. The template typically includes:

• The learner's name

• The course name

• The date of completion

• The score achieved

• A QR code or URL for online verification

Skills

Skills represent competencies that learners acquire. In Chamilo:

• Skills can be linked to gradebook achievements

• When a learner earns a certificate, any associated skills are automatically validated

• Skills accumulate on the learner's profile, creating a competency record

• Skills can be organized hierarchically (e.g., "Data Analysis" under "Research Methods")

• Skills can be further evaluated by peers (360° evaluation)

Viewing Certificate and Skill Status

As a teacher, you can see:

• Which learners have earned certificates in your course

• Which skills have been validated

• Learners' progress toward the certification threshold

Learners can view their own certificates and validated skills from their profile, and can access the Skills Wheel to check what skills are in demand in their organisation.

Tips

• Set clear expectations — Tell learners at the start of the course what they need to achieve to earn a certificate

• Use meaningful skill names — Skills should describe what the learner can do, not just the course name

• Combine with portfolios — Encourage learners to add their certificates to their portfolio

• Extend certificates — Ask your admin to enable the Custom Certificate plugin to unleash even more certificate templating power