Do you still have them, your old school diplomas? And do you also have your diploma's from your further studies (college or university) or another completed course or training? It feels good to have completed such a course and you can look back on it with pride of what you have accomplished. But diplomas and certificates are not only fun to achieve, they are a piece of evidence. In black and white, to show you have completed a course. Which is why they are often also a requirement within professional and vocational training programs.
For your students, such a certificate can also be valuable, when they have completed a module or finished your course.
Within Kajabi, you can automate the awarding of certificates. There are different options, such as the new Kajabi certificate of completion option, as well as our much more flexible Gamify Pro options.
What is a certificate and why is it important to use them?
A certificate is a written statement that you receive after completing a study or course, for example. With this, you can demonstrate and prove in black and white that you have successfully completed this study.
The certificate is motivating for your students to achieve. With this, they can demonstrate that they have acquired a certain skill during your course. Furthermore, it is a method of promoting your course, making it more important and confirming your status as a coach or trainer. Your successful course participant proudly shows the certificate to others. It works as word-of-mouth advertising. In addition, your trainings become more interesting as accredited courses.
Option 1. Kajabi Certificate of Completion (basic)
In early 2023, Kajabi added a certificate option to the online courses. This certificate can be automatically sent to your course participants, after they have completed the course 100%. This means they must have seen all the videos and all the text lessons must be "marked as completed". The certificate is very basic. You can only upload your logo and a few text lines. It is not possible to add your own background, styling or color. What can be done is to add a unique serial number on the certificate, the date of completion and an expiration date.
The advantage of this certificate is that the completion date will be on the certificate and that every Kajabi user can send a certificate without external applications.
The disadvantage of this certificate is that it cannot be styled. The layout is very simple and does not fit within the branding of many companies. Furthermore, it is only sent at 100% (not 99%) completion. This means that if you have text lessons (which are not automatically marked as completed), and the course participant has not checked it off manually, your course participant will not receive a certificate.
For now, the Kajabi certificate of completion is a nice addition for the beginner online business. But if you have requirements for branding and flexibility when the certificate is sent, then you need other tools.
Option 2. Gamify Pro Certificates (best choice)
In our gamification templates Gamify Pro, we have added our own certificate options. The certificates within these gamification templates can be fully styled and controlled from within Kajabi. This already makes a big difference.
1) You can upload your own certificates and fully format them in your own branding.
2) You can award the certificate based on a percentage of completion, for example 95%. You can also award certificates based on the actions of your course participants. For example, when they have successfully completed an assessment or quiz.
The advantage of the certificates within the Gamify Pro template is its flexibility. Besides the styling and trigger to send them, you can also assign multiple certificates within one course, for example per module. You are not limited to a single certificate at the end of the course.
Create your own certificate in Canva
Canvais a very handy tool for creating digital designs. When your certificate design is ready, you can download it in Gamify Pro. You can then automatically fill in the empty text fields with information from your course, such as student name, date, or trainer name.
To give you more of an idea of what you can create, here are some more examples of certificates made on Canva.
Option 3. Google Slides (complex)
It is also possible to use external tools. For example, Google Slides. This is a free tool from Google that allows you to create presentations and spreadsheets, similar to Powerpoint. You first create a basic design for your certificate in Canva or you canuse this standard template. The texts can be adapted to any language, the name of your course can be added, and the date and name of the student can be specified. For this you can use macros or variables, such as {{student_name}} and {{date}}.
The connection between Kajabi and Google Slides is more technical and difficult to achieve. Kajabi hasa complex step-by-step planthat you must follow in full. In short, it means that after a student has completed a certain lesson, the tool Zapier is called via an automation in Kajabi. Zapier can send the information from Kajabi to Google Slides and create the certificate. Then you can also send an email to the relevant student with the personalized certificate using Zapier. The macros or variables used by Zapier and Google Slides are recognized by Kajabi, so that the information on the certificate is always correct.
The advantage of Google Slides is that you have unlimited flexibility. That is, if you are very skilled in Google Slides. You can customize the entire styling and add as many extra fields as you want.
The disadvantage of Google Slides is the complexity. It takes a lot of work to set up and you need external tools such as Google and Zapier. Not everyone is waiting for that.
Option 4. Accredible (expensive)
Accredible is a paid platform where you can create digital badges and certificates. However, the starting price is a whopping $960 per year. And that's for the smallest package. Accredible works roughly the same as Google Slides. You create a design, in which you also use macros/variables such as {{student_name}} and {{date}}, and can then generate the certificates automatically.
The advantage of Accredible is that the platform is set up to make certificates and badges. So you'll get professional and polished certificates. But the annual price is quite high for a solution that can now also be arranged natively from Kajabi, if not with our Gamify Pro template.
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Agnes & Bastiaan - Kajabi Specialists since 2014
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