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

[Mukul Tiwari]

Here is the link to svn.

https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/rsmart/certification

Cheers,
Mukul Tiwari
rSmart

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Regan, Alan <Alan.Regan at pepperdine.edu>wrote:

> 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.
>
> ****
>
> 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
> Message-ID:
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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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