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

[Regan, Alan]

Dear Mukul,

Yes, if you could add to contrib so institutions could evaluate, I'd be grateful.  Sounds like others would like this opportunity as well.

This would help us with some of the challenges we're running into when working with instructors creating self-paced class sites.  Many of these are one-unit or remedial classes to help students prepare for required classes.  (Basic statistic skills, for example, for MBA students that have forgotten the concepts or never took a basic stats class as an undergrad.)  The goal is to make them fully-online and self-paced.  Some of the challenges include:

   * Certificate of completion as downloadable or printable PDF once student achieves passing grade in class based on overall grade calculation in Gradebook.

   * After an assessment, returning the student to the module if they launched the assessment from the module (either Lesson Builder or Melete). This helps make the process more seamless and easy for the student -- less navigation back and forth, and less training required to take the class.

   * Alert emails to instructors in the event that students pass or fail assessment(s) in Tests & Quizzes.  Since classes are designed to be self-paced, the professors won't know where all of the students are in the process.  Alert emails that are based on triggers (such as grade less than 60% or grade higher than 75%) would help professors manage the site and help identify the students that need extra attention or who have completed all assessments successfully, etc.

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Sounds like your PDF certificate development might help us with one of our challenges.  Thank you in advance for adding to contrib so we can evaluate.

Sincerely,

Alan Regan, MFA
Manager, Technology and Learning
Information Technology
Pepperdine University
(310) 506-6756



-----Original Message-----
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 15:22:37 -0700
From: Mukul Tiwari <mtiwari at rsmart.com>
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Has anybody created a PDF Certificate
	tool?
To: Brian Baillargeon <bbailla2 at uwo.ca>
Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
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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> 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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