[Building Sakai] Has anybody created a PDF Certificate tool?

[May, Megan Marie]

We've also had a recent request from the School of Medicine at IU for exactly this functionality.

Megan


From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Mukul Tiwari
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 5:23 PM
To: Brian Baillargeon
Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Has anybody created a PDF Certificate tool?

Brian,

Yes, we have worked on a tool very similar to the requirements you have described below. It does utilize Itext libraries. You can create certification definitions as a set rules based on scores or grades received in Gradebook items. For template pdf documents you can also specify what data would populate these template field at the time of certificate attainment. Site participants can look at different certificates available to them and would be able to download and print the certificate themselves once they meet the criteria defined to attain the certificate.

We can put this into contrib for anybody interested to evaluate it.

Thanks,
Mukul Tiwari

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Brian Baillargeon <bbailla2 at uwo.ca<mailto:bbailla2 at uwo.ca>> wrote:
Hello,

I would like to know if anybody has created a tool or is interested in assisting in creating a tool with the following requirements:

An instructor specifies a pdf template file for a certificate in their course's resources.
The instructor specifies a minimum grade and a gradebook column.
There could be other info for the instructor to specify as well such as whether to display the student's grade in the certificate, the pixel positions of each stamp, font sizes, etc.

If a student has met the minimum grade for the provided gradebook column, they get a link to save or download a pdf stamped with their name (and other info if applicable).

I've created a simple proof of concept, but if anybody has been working on something similar I'd be very interested.

Thanks,
Brian


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