[Building Sakai] Certification Tool in Sakai 10

[Brian Baillargeon]

The certification tool in contrib hasn't been touched in nearly two 
years. We have been actively updating our fork of the certification tool 
in our msub:
https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/msub/uwo.ca/certification/trunk/

We have it deployed in production here at Western University (we're 
running Sakai 2.9.1), and it's used by a few sites, though we keep it 
stealthed. Here are a few of the features we have that you won't find in 
contrib

  * a reporting interface that you can export into a few different formats
  * certificate expiration
  * improved UI, forms are more intuitive
  * requirements can be displayed to students (this is configurable)
  * bug fixes

The logic to determine whether you have earned a certificate is 
different in our instance - when a student checks their status, the tool 
always checks if they met their requirements on the fly. In contrib, it 
awards the student once, then stores a row in the database indicating 
the student's success.

It's still a work in progress, there's a lot of grade calculation logic 
that needs to be replaced with edu-services calls, but these problems 
are also in contrib. That's why we keep it stealthed.

We encourage you to check it out, it may save you a lot of work.

-Brian

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