To generate a certificate for CE credit to be added to an administrator-developed course, you must add a certificate template.
To add a certificate template
On the Courses tab, click Add a Certificate Template. The Certificate Template Editor page appears.
Enter a certificate template name. Be sure to enter a name that corresponds with the accrediting/approving body to which the certificate template is associated for easy recognition.
Select the Share this certificate with subsidiary institutions check box only if you are certain that this is compliant with accrediting/approving body guidelines. Selecting this box when a certificate template is added at the enterprise level makes the template available for use at the institution level.
Create the certificate template as required by the accrediting/approving body using the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor. (See Using the WYSIWYG Editors for further details.)
To add information
to the certificate that is not available until an associated course is
completed, such as Course Name,
Student Name, Completion
Date, etc., add a placeholder code snippet by clicking the code
snippet icon 
to access the list.
Code snippets populate data to the generated certificate of course completion and can be placed where needed within the certificate template. Code snippets draw data from other pages within the HLC. For instance, the Credit Units code snippet draws data from the Add Course CE Credit page when CE is added to a course.
When you have completed designing the certificate template, click Save or click Save and Add Another if you wish to add an additional new certificate template.
Tip: You can also follow the steps above to design a generic (non-CE) certificate template to associate with non-CE administrator-developed courses or curricula.
Certificate templates are dynamic, meaning, any time a change is made to the certificate template, or to any of the data fields from which code snippets draw their information, the certificate will be changed. For example, if a student completes a course and views or prints a certificate at the time of course completion, and subsequent changes are made to the certificate template itself or to data that are pulled into the certificate via code snippets, viewing or printing the certificate will display changes, not the certificate as it appeared at the time of course completion. This may pose a compliance issue for accrediting/approving bodies. To preserve a certificate as it was at the time of course completion when subsequent changes are made:
Determine what page will be affected by the changes: certificate template, student record, course properties, accrediting/approving body, course provider, or accredited/approved provider.
Create a new certificate template, as well as a new accrediting/approving body and/or course provider if needed.
Create a new/updated accredited/approved provider.
Create a new course or, if appropriate, a new version of the course, making the original course unavailable by retiring or inactivating the course. Attach the CE credit that includes the new/updated accreditation information and the new/updated certificate template.
Currently enrolled students should be un-enrolled and re-enrolled into the new version of the course so that they will receive the appropriate CE credit information on their certificate upon course completion. Those completing the prior version of the course will continue to view/print the certificate as it was at the time of course completion.
