Quiz Certificates
For each quiz you may apply a certain certificate that can be printed by the Students if they pass the quiz. The system allows you to create customizable certificates containing Students’ personal data.
To work with the list of quiz certificates:
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Enter the necessary course and click the
Quizzes icon (
) in the top course menu. The system will display a list of quizzes for the given course.
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Click the
Certificates icon (
) in the top menu. A list of available certificates will appear:
Fig. ‘List of Quiz Certificates’
Use the icons at the top of the list to perform the following operations:
| Icon | Name | Step |
_icon.png "categories_list_(quiz)_icon") | Categories List | Click the Categories list icon to display a list of available categories. |
| Quiz Management | Click the Quiz Management icon to display a list of quizzes. |
 | Reports | Click the Reports icon to display a list of quiz reports. |
| Certificates | Click the Certificates icon to display a list of quiz certificates. |
 | Images List | Click the Images List icon to add images. |
 | New certificate | Click the New certificate icon to create a new quiz certificate. |
 | Edit certificate | Select a check box next to the certificate that you want to modify and click the Edit certificate icon. |
 | Delete certificate | Select check boxes next to certificates that you want to delete and click the Delete certificate icon (use the Name check box to select all entries in the list). |
 | Preview certificate | Select a check box next to the certificate that you want to preview and click the Preview certificate icon. The selected certificate will be opened in a new window. |
Creating Quiz Certificates
The system allows you to design quiz certificate yourself: you may use any background image or text that you need.
To create a new quiz certificate:
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Enter the necessary course and click the
Quizzes icon (
) in the top course menu. The system will display a list of quizzes for the given course.
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Click the
Certificates icon (
) in the top menu. A list of available certificates will appear.
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Click the
New certificate (
) icon at the top of the list to display the following form:
Fig. ‘Creating a Quiz Certificate’
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Fill out the form fields as described in the table below:
| Field | Step |
Certificate name
| Enter the certificate name here. |
| Choose a file | Click the Browse button to specify a path to an image file on your computer. Uploaded image will be used as a background of the certificate. |
| Certificate text | Enter the text that should be displayed on the quiz certificate. If necessary, use variables. |
| Text alignment | Select how the certificate text should be displayed:
- Left-aligned,
- Centered,
- Right-aligned. |
| Show shadow | If you want to apply a shadow effect to the certificate text, select Yes. Select No to leave the text without shadow. |
| X,Y coordinate of the text (px) | Set coordinates of the text (in pixels) against the image background (these fields accept whole numbers only). |
| Height of the text (px) | Set the height of the text (in pixels) that will be displayed on the certificate (this field accepts whole numbers only). |
Text font
| Select the font type for the certificate text. |
Custom text fields
| Besides compulsory certificate text field you can add other text fields to the certificate:
- Text Field: enter the text for a custom text field;
- Shadow: if you want to apply a shadow effect to the certificate text, select Yes. Select No to leave the text without shadow.
- X, Y, H: set coordinates of the text (in pixels) against the image background (these fields accept whole numbers only).
- Font: select the font type for the custom text field.
Click the New button. Your custom text field will be saved and you can add more fields now. |
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When finished, click the
Save certificate icon (
) at the top of the form to add the new certificate. Click
Back (
) to discard changes and close the form.
Certificate Variables
The Certificate text field allows you to use the following variables (the variables will be replaced by specific data later on for each particular Student):
| Variable | Description |
| #name# | When the certificate is generated, the #name# is automatically changed to the name of the user who did the quiz. |
| #course# | When the certificate is generated, the #course# variable is automatically changed to the name of a corresponding course. |
| #reg_answer# | When the certificate is generated, the #reg_answer# variable is automatically changed to the answer that the Student entered when s/he was registering at the course.
Note: Use this variable only if the course option Additional registration info is enabled. |
| #date# | When the certificate is generated, the #date# variable is automatically changed to the date when the certificate was issued.
Note: For the #date# variable you can use various date formats, for example:
- #date(Y-m-d)# will be changed to 2007-01-01,
- #date(d F Y)# will be changed to 01 January 2007. |
Editing Quiz Certificates
To edit a quiz certificate that was earlier added to the system:
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Enter the necessary course and click the
Quizzes icon (
) in the top course menu. The system will display a list of quizzes for the given course.
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Click the
Certificates icon (
) in the top menu. A list of available certificates will appear.
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Select a check box next to the certificate that you want to modify and click the
Edit certificate icon (
) at the top of the list.
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Modify certificate properties as described in the Creating Quiz Certificates topic.
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Save changes.
Previewing Quiz Certificates
A Teacher can view certificates that were earlier added to the system. To do so:
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Enter the necessary course and click the
Quizzes icon (
) in the top course menu. The system will display a list of quizzes for the given course.
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Click the
Certificates icon (
) in the top menu. A list of available certificates will appear.
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Select a check box next to the certificate that you want to view and click the
Preview certificate icon (
) at the top of the list. The system will open the certificate in a new browser window. An example of a quiz certificate is represented below:
Fig. Quiz Certificate
Quiz Reports
When a Student does a quiz, his/ her answers are saved and included into a quiz report. A Teacher can check the report later on to see Student’s answers. Each attempt to do the quiz generates one Report.
To view the list of quiz reports (that is to view how many times Students tried to do the quiz):
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Enter the necessary course and click the
Quizzes icon (
) in the top course menu. The system will display a list of quizzes for the given course.
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Click the
Reports icon (
) in the top menu. A list of reports will appear:
Fig. ‘List of Reports’
Each list row contains information on one attempt to do the quiz:
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Date and time when the quiz was started;
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Student who did the quiz;
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Name of the quiz;
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User score;
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Total score of the quiz;
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Passing score of the quiz in percents;
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Icon defining whether the user passed the quiz or not;
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Time spent by the user to do the quiz.
Use the icons at the top of the list to perform the following operations:
| Icon | Name | Step |
| | Categories List | Click the Categories list icon to display a list of available categories. |
| Quiz Management | Click the Quiz Management icon to display a list of quizzes. |
| Reports | Click the Reports icon to display a list of quiz reports. |
| Certificates | Click the Certificates icon to display a list of quiz certificates. |
| Images List | Click the Images List icon to add images. |
 | Print CSV report | Click the Print CSV Report icon to export the list of displayed reports into a CSV file. The file with reports can be opened or saved on your computer. |
| Delete report | Select check boxes next to reports that you want to delete and click the Delete report icon (use the Name check box to select all entries in the list). |
By default the system displays reports for all users. However you can use the filter drop-down lists under the top menu to define the quiz and the user who tried to do the quiz.
Tip: This report is available from the Tracking section too.
To view detailed statistics on Student’s answers, choose the necessary report from the list and click the Date Time link in a corresponding list row. You will be able to see statistics on the quiz questions:
Fig. ‘Quiz Questions Statistics’
Fig. ‘Question Report’
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