Hi Carlos,

I translated the simple certificate language strings into Mexican spanish at AMOS (http://lang.moodle.org/). I will try it in my local server and report to you.

It certainly looks very nice and useful.

That is great, thanks

Hi Carlos and community.

I need your help with "Simple Certificate Module". I need change the name of PDF, specifically the certificate ID por User ID.

Thank you for your help or that of any other member of the community.

Me too

hello you could solve the name of the pdf

Hello Carlos,

I'm using the Simple Certificate plugin and accurate paste text and a picture on the back of the certificate on page 02.

Carlos, I find the code below, the file generated QRCode locallib.php referring to on page 02 of the single certificate, but each course to the back of the certificate must contain a list of course topics and signature of the school principal.

There is a possibility I ensirir an image, PDF or text on page 02?

/ / Add code certificade using QRcode, in a new page (to print in the back)
         $ pdf-> AddPage ();
         $ style = array (
             'border' => 2,
             'vpadding' => 'auto',
             'hpadding' => 'auto',
             'fgcolor' => array (0,0,0),
             'bgcolor' => false, / / array (255,255,255)
             'module_width' => 1, / / width of a single module in points
             'module_height' => 1 / / height of a single module in points
         );
         $ codeurl = "$ CFG-> wwwroot / mod / simplecertificate / verify.php? issuecert-$ code => code";
         $ pdf-> write2DBarcode ($ codeurl 'QRCODE, H', 10, 10, 50, 50, $ style, 'N');
         $ pdf-> SetFontSize (10);
         $ pdf-> setFontStretching (75);
         $ pdf-> Text (9, 60, $ issuecert-> code);

return $ pdf;
}

In this plugin it's not possible to do that, put an image on page 2.

You can create an image with all you needs ( borders, signature, ...) and puts on page one, or put the course topics in certificate text.

I think you the Mark Nelson's certificate module will be better to you, because it's more simple to modify a certificate php code.

Mark Nelson's and my plugin uses TCPDF lib, and it's not difficult to use it, has many examples

Marta, porque estamos escrevendo em inglês ???

Carlos, eu achei que era possível, visto que, no arquivo mod_form.php poderia acrescentar um campo 'imagem_back' semelhante ao da pagína 01 onde o administrador do curso faz upload de uma imagem de fundo do certificado e no arquivo locallib.php direcionar a impressão para essa imagem, ou seja, ao invés de imprimir o QRCode imprimiria essa imagem.

Seria tudo de bom...pois o seu plugin é mais fácil para manusear.

Obrigada pelo retorno.

Abraços

Possível é, só que esse plugin não faz isso, não na versão atual, quem sabe no futuro.

Assim como é possível colocar a image e o QR code juntos, vou colocar como uma melhoria futura.

Carlos, só não mencionei a impressão do QR Code Junto com os demais itens do verso do certificado, porque não usamos a impressão do QR Code,inclusive a impressão do QR Code poderia ser opcional.

Após fazer várias pesquisas com colegas que trabalham com o moodle, constatei que 99% dos orgãos públicos trabalham com a emissão de certificado,contendo frente e verso e, no verso há apenas descrição dos tópicos abordados no curso e assinatura do diretor.Atualmente a maior parte das pessoas ainda emitem certificados fora do moodle.

Portanto, o ideal é que duplique dois campos o certificateimage (certificateimageback) e o certificatetext(certificatetextback) e dessa forma poderiamos fazer upload da imagem,incluisve com as assinaturas que desejamos, e manusear o texto do verso com a mesma facilidade do texto da primeira página.No certificate.php imprimir o arquivo com a imagem e texto informados no mod_form.php na segunda página no verso.

Vou aguardar uma versão futura..rss

Hi Carlos, I have downloaded Simple Certificate for Moodle 2.3 and I think it is a great contribution. Thank you very much.

However I have been a problem with the QR code: I get an error when I access the link generated by the QR code:

error/Invalide certificate code

If the QR code is: f345c4e0-8182-11e2-afa8-4b7df1272463 it generates de folowing link:

http://[our_url_moodle_server]/mod/simplecertificate/verify.php?code=f345c4e0-8182-11e2-afa8-4b7df1272463

Can I disable the QR page in the certificate?

---

Alberto García Gómez
This is odd, because i have tested it, the code is the same that was printed below QR code picture? it's the same at mod/simplecertificate/report.php ? (column code).
In this version you can't disable it, may be in future version.

---

Carlos, when I launch mod/simplecertificate/report.php I obtain this message:

There are no certificates that have been issued

I'll test version 1.2.3 for Moodle 2.4 and I'll tell you if it works fine.
---

Hi Carlos, I have tested simple certificate 1.2.3 in Moodle 2.4 and it occurs the same error with the QR code...

I have attached some captures.

Hi Alberto, I use the Simple Certificate and Certificate and the two work perfectly, but my version is current and working with Moodle 2.4

As for your question Can I disable the QR page in the certificate?

Yes, you can open the file moodle / mod / simplescertificate / locallib.php and place the passage (lines 513-528) in comments below:

/ * Add code certificade using QRcode, in a new page (to print in the back)
       $ pdf-> AddPage ();
         $ style = array (
             'border' => 2,
             'vpadding' => 'auto',
             'hpadding' => 'auto',
             'fgcolor' => array (0,0,0),
             'bgcolor' => false, / / array (255,255,255)
             'module_width' => 1, / / width of a single module in points
             'module_height' => 1 / / height of a single module in points
         );
         $ codeurl = "$ CFG-> wwwroot / mod / simplecertificate / verify.php? issuecert-$ code => code";
         $ pdf-> write2DBarcode ($ codeurl 'QRCODE, H', 10, 10, 50, 50, $ style, 'N');
         $ pdf-> SetFontSize (10);
         $ pdf-> setFontStretching (75);
         $ pdf-> Text (9, 60, $ issuecert-> code) * /

Hope this helps you ...

Thank you very much Marta. It works perfectly for me. I'll continue testing the module to find the problem...

Alberto, do this, please:

Assign a student to your course;
Login as this student account (can use "login as" function);
Get the certificate;
Verify the QR code;
Logoff and login as moodle Admin (as administrator);
Go to report page and you should see the issueds certificate list;

This module don't save Admin's certificate

Thank you Carlos! Indeed, everything worked fine when I enrolled as a student.

I thought I had tested this option as a student, but I was enrolled as a non-editing teacher (I should change my role in any of the tests)...

Sorry about the time I made you lose.

No problem

Alberto, this isn't an error, you don't has issued any certificate (as a student)! Admin certificates are not saved.

May be this is the cause your QR code error!

Please, vote in this module in Moodle Tracker, to the moodle admin give me edit access to tracker, so i can use it to put improvements tasks and any one can report a bug (in moodle tracker).
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-4120

Hi Carlos,

This may be an ignorant question but do I understand this module to allow for custom certificate? I mean can I create a custom cert. in a PDF with appropriate spaces for customizable text, and just upload it into the system?

Thanks in advance, Steve

No, this module will create a PDF file, you must upload an image (background) with all stuff that not change in certificate (like signature, certificate title, watermark, seal, logos, .....). And you can write and a custom text with special marks that will be replaced by moodle's variables:

Imaging you are a student making the course "Advanced XTPO", and you generate your certificate, and the text of your certificate is:

Certificate

for

Advanced XPTO

to

Steve Giesel

March, 21 2013

In certificate configuration, in the certificate text option will be :

Certificate

for

{COURSENAME}

to

{USERNAME}

{DATE}

This modules has other options like Certificate size, text position, date format, ...

Thank you Carlos. That isn't significantly different from the built-in certificate is it?

Steve

Which built in certificate ? moodle don't have any built in certificate in your core code (as i know).

There is an another plugin called certificate, maintained by Mark Nelson, as written in my documentation, and has a huge difference, in certificate module you must change php files (programatic) and upload it to change certificate format, and if you want a new border, watermark, you must upload it out side of moodle, the module configuration don't have this possibility and because this, backup don't work very well (i think).

But Mark Nelson has new ideas to a new certificate module, so i think the certificate module will be discontinued in future (again)!

Olá, Carlos!

É possível me passar todas as variáveis de customização deste certificado? Não sei se conseguirei extrair os dados do campo de Login do usuário e inseri-lo no certificado. Porque digo isso? É que foi instituído que o campo de login seria o CPF do aluno e preciso colocar o CPF no certificado. Se não houver solução, terei que pedir que o cadastrante repita o CPF em algum campo do formulário, par que eu possa usar a variável X: {PROFILE_X}.

De qualquer forma, obrigado!

Works great with 2.4.3 so far. Thanks for doing the mods. One question: Is there a way I can add variables other than the ones you've listed in the module help? Info from other global or custom fields? I added a couple of unique fields to the user profile area and I need the info displayed on the cert.

Thanks,

Greg

In version 2.0 of this mod will be possible to add any user fields, including user custom fields, and has others enhancements, sugestions made here, like disabling QR code, image and text in certificate back page.

You can see the progress at:

https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/issues?milestone=1&state=open

sorry, but until now i don't have an moodle tracker write access, so i use github

hi

just for information, french language file (thanks to Daniel Methot) is updated in AMOS system for all Moodle 2.x versions.

cheers.

That's great!

More than 1000 downloads, that's great, thanks for all

you can add in the certificate list of fully equipped Scorm with the completion date?
something like the attached file

No you can't

Hello again Carlos, I think I found a little bug in this module.

With the module installed, if I try to launch an activity report I get an error message that says it can not access the table "simple_certificate" (in debug mode).

I tried to copy the table "simplecertificate" into a new table called "simple_certificate" and the error has been fixed.

Added in issue tracker, thanks

Thanks to you!

it's fixed in version 2.0.0

New version has come, version 2.0.0, with many improvements like:

2-side certificate with text and image;
disabling QR code;
user's profile fields (user custom fields too)

Enjoy

This plugin is now available to moodle 2.5

Thank you very much for releasing this great plugin and updating it for moodle 2.5!

As i tried to include Japanese characters in the cerficate, i found a way to do that.
i just added the description to http://docs.moodle.org/24/en/Simple_certificate_module#Languages_with_special_character .

I see your modifications in docs, thanks,

this an TCPDF problem which don't use only complete UTF-8 charset fonts !, so you must install a new one.

More about this problem: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5333702/tcpdf-utf-8-problem

Solutions: Install new fonts in TCPDF folder, in moodle lib (lib/tcpdf/fonts/)
http://www.tcpdf.org/fonts.php
http://sandeepverma.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/create-tcpdf-php-fonts/

On-line converter (not tested)
http://www.xml-convert.com/en/convert-tff-font-to-afm-pfa-fpdf-tcpdf

Thanks, well done, local font solved.

Bohus

Hi Carlos, I've installed Simple Certificate 2.02 (2013070501) into Moodle 2.5.1 (20130712). I can get the text to appear in the Certificate (provided the only surrounds all the HTML) but I cannot get the font face and size to change.

My installation is on WIndows Server 2008 with IIS 7.5, PHP 5.5.0, MySQL 5.6.12.2.

you must install fonts in tcpdf folder in moodle (lib/tcpdf/fonts) , moodle provided by default a small numbers of fonts to reduce "moodle size"

Try to use <H1> tags, and do not use css files or class, use tags

Hi,

I am new to moodle and my first add-on is simple certificate and found it very useful and easy. Just one suggestion if can be consider to add a unique certificate number (auto generated) and provided a variable of the same so it can be displayed on the certificate.

thanks

This plugin already has this function, the QR code does just that.

All issued certificates has an unique auto generated code, and when the certificate is issued a barcode (QR type) and the textual code are shown on the second page.

The certificate can be verified in URL http://<YOUR MOODLE URL>/mod/simplecertificate/verify.php

I think you asking to put textual code without QRcode, like {CERTIFICATECODE} text mark, ok i could do that in next version

Hi,

Yes you understood perfectly,

"I think you asking to put textual code without QRcode, like {CERTIFICATECODE} text mark, ok i could do that in next version"

this is the feature I am looking for. tks sikandar

Olá Carlos,

É possível neste módulo realizar a liberação do certificado apenas quando o aluno atingir uma nota X (60% por exemplo)?

Caso seja possível, como eu poderia configurar esta opção?

Romulo, esse fórum é em inglês, o fórum em português é https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=230459, mas tudo bem eu traduzo aqui.

O moodle que oferece isso para qualquer tipo de plugin, acredito que tenha que ativar algo na configuração do curso , procure por conditional activities, algo assim

--- Romulo Afonso

Hello Carlos,
This plugin can only issue certificate only if the student reaches a score X (for example 60%)?

If possible, how can I set this option?

--- Anwser

Moodle has this function to all modules, i think you must enable something in the course settings, look for Conditional Activities.

Obrigado pela resposta Carlos,

Contudo, esta opção conditional activities ficava dentro do módulo de certificado anterior. Ou seja, era configurada diretamente no certificado qual atividade o aluno deveria fazer para liberar o certificado ou qual a nota final do curso. O seu módulo não dispõe desta opção?

--Thanks for the reply Carlos,

However, this option was conditional activities within the module of the previous certificate. Ie was configured directly on the certificate which activity the student must do to release the certificate or where the final course grade. Your module does not have this option?

http://docs.moodle.org/23/en/Conditional_activities

Hi, Carlos. Nice Job with the plugin.

I've installed and tested it and i really like it. There's some issue that i'd like to tell you about: When you use an empty parragraph tag in the text box, the whole text disappears. I mean that if i use in the html code, the whole text get lost, whereas using tags works fine. I've tried in different browsers with the same behavoir. It's not a big deal, just a bit odd.

Does it happen to you, or should it be something about my theme, browser, or whatever?

Thanks.

I didn't understand where the text disappears, in the textbox or in the certificate file (PDF )?

If in PDF file, it's never happen with me, and it's first time someone report it.

if in Textbox:
I use the same textbox used by many others plugins, it's part of moodle's libs, so try to use textbox of others activity, like forum , if you have the same problems it's something wrong with your browser, or at your moodle installation.

There is some plugins in the browser can help you , like firebug for firefox

It's in the pdf. The textbox works fine, but when you generate the certificate, it shows only the background image without any text.

I'll try to find out if it's browser related or something in my moodle installation.

Thanks

OK, put your moodle in debug mode, could help, anyone more has this issue ?

Verify your html code, tcpdf has a limited HTML support, so don't use too much elaborated HTML, verify text position, alignment , tables work better for text position with TCPDF.

When adding a certificate image file, it overwrites the text on the certificate. removing the image shows the text. I've even created a PNG web safe (transparent) image to attempt to solve this- any ideas on whats causing this?

Using Latest version of moodle (2.9.2) on windows IIS/PHP 5.5 with Simple certificate 2.2.2. No weird HTML is in the certificate text.

Due to file upload size restrictions, Example certificates are available to view here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/19oyrqtorb1njxa/Archive.zip?dl=0

Certificate HTML:

<div style="width:750px; height:550px; padding:20px; text-align:center; border: 5px solid #787878"><img

HOA University

Certificate of Achievement

This is to certify that

{USERNAME}

has completed the course {COURSENAME}

with score of {GRADE}      Date Issued: {DATE}       Certificate Code: {CERTIFICATECODE} </div>

</div>

Someone have this error?, this is very odd

The plugin writes image first and then the text, no need to be transparency , something that may help you:

Try to turn on moodle's debug mode
Try with Jpeg image

I never test with windows/IIS , so you may find something about tcpdf lib won't write text above images

New plug-in version available

plug-in version for moodle2.2 is now fixed (it's was broken);
some deprecated warnings is now fixed;

Hi Carlos,

How can i add course score to the left top corner and course completion date to right top corner?

I found your add-on very usefull for me , but I have problem I need to insert into text new empty line. I try add or empty paragraph and after this is certificate empty - only backround picture. Without "empty lines" is everythin OK. I need to add some text into right bottom corner too, is this possible?

Petr, i haven't looked into it yet, but i had the same problem. Any time a i used empty tags, it dissapeared. It must be something about my moodle theme or moodle installation. Anyway, my point is that maybe if you just use for spacing, instead of it would work.

Good luck.

What theme are you using ? this is very strange

Dear Carlos,

Is it possible to make certificates can only be created and printed by admins for the students? If not, it's a feature request

Like bulk certificate creation, for all students (or other roles)?, in this version, no

bulk certificate creation, for all students (or other roles), some problems:

Select which roles to do this, or only students (or student like)
certificates with conditional activities
put all certificate in one big pdf or separate files (separate pdfs i thinks is better)
if separate, creating a zip file with all pdf... maybe to download all certificates at once

but why not let the students issue their own certificates? you want to print it and send to your students ? , if no i don't see any benefit to do that.

No I don't want bulk certificate creation. I want to see the students who completed the course or exam then create certificate one by one. Print them to special papers and sign them.

To print, this request makes sense.

so, what i think about this request:

put a new option in "issue options", something like , 'not issue, user will recive this certificate using others ways', and put a new option which will be displayed to user something like 'issue instruction' or 'issue text'
in issued certificate list, add a button to issue all certificate (only students that reach the end of course conditions), with this you can download and print one by one;
a button to download all issued certificate (separate files) and another to download one big pdf file with all issued certificate, it's good for printing

for now, you can create a certificate activity and use "login as" to download the certificate.

you can track this issue in:

https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/issues/21

try to use html tables, works better for text positioning, and use the options certificatetextx and certificatetexty to positioning the text (in more option or advanced options)

http://docs.moodle.org/24/en/Simple_certificate_module

Thnx, this really helps me. Html table works like a charm

Hi Carlos,

I am having difficulty with the certificate size.

I would like to create an A4 size "portrait" certificate.

When I change the landscape A4 size to portrait it seems to have no effect.

I am using a Simple Certificate that I downloaded a month ago so not sure if my issue exists in the new version.

Hope you can assist.

Mark

this plugin don't have portrait or landscape option, it has height and width sizes, but i think you made this right ....

i will test this, but it was working

Hi Carlos,

great module, simple and easy to use!

1. Is there a way to put QR code on the same page with other info (front page)?

2. Is there a way to generate unique code/number printed on certificate for each student?

Many thanks,

Nikola

1- Until now no, QR code only in the second page (back of certificate), but i can create an option to do that, something like "Which page QR code will be printed?", with option (Front page, Back page), with back page as default;

2- As i say before, only the unique code, without QR barcode is not possible, but it will be in the next version;

Hi, that would be very good - to create a page selection for QR code, and position as well.

Nikola

Positing QR code it's possible in current version, but not in frontpage, i put your suggestion in my github

you can follow it at https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/issues/23

"Hi, that would be very good - to create a page selection for QR code, and position as well. "

but how to place with barcode?

Why use barcode ?, QR code can be read by any webcam, cellphone cameras,.... I don't see any advantage to put in barcode.

QR code is more appropriate to "encode" URL

how to encode url into qr code ?

the TCPDF lib has support to QR code, but a simple google search i found

http://raidenii.net/files/datasheets/misc/qr_code.pdf

http://www.thonky.com/qr-code-tutorial/

Bonjour,

I have this error message :

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$numsections in /home2/elearnin/public_html/formations/mod/simplecertificate/lib.php on line 615

Moodle 2.5.1

Daniel

i didn't try in moodle 2.5.1, but i tested it in 2.5, and this warnings were removed, you get the latest version?

This is not an error it's only a notice, try to disable the debug mode.

I have similar problem after swap height and width size no change on certificate appear. I have problome with other choices too, if I disable QR or change vertical or horizontal text position - still no change. May be problem is that I use only Save and Display to check certificate. May be result is cached somwhere or what?

Thanks for Answer

Swapping height and width, making an portrait certificate, i wasn't tested, but i think it's ok, i will test this, but disable QR code and change text position is tested and works ok, many people use this, especially disable QR code

For text position i recommend to use tables, the pdf lib which come with moodle (TCPDF) works better with table

Hi Carlos - I am looking for a way to create a single page certificate that displays a learners results (quiz names and scores of approx. 6 quizzes) from a single course on the one certificate. Is there a way to do this with this plug in?

Until now it's not possible, you can display only the course grade (results).

I can put this as a new feature, but i don't think it be ready at next version.

Okay, so forgive me because I am a newbie. I have installed this plugin and everything checks out. My question is how does the certificate get implemented? Does the certificate become available when the user completes the course within the conditions set for completion? Does the Teacher/Administrator have to make it or send it to them? There is no indication of a certificate when someone completes my course. The only place where there is anything about a certificate is in the Site Admin >Plugins >Simple Certificate. I don't see it anywhere in the Course Administration or in the user settings when they complete it. Please help.

I think i understand your question

Do you want know how to use this plugin.

All activity plugins works in the same way, you must create an activity in your course to use it , like a forum, chat ...

For this plugin you must create an activity called simple certificate, and when you do this, the configuration page will show up and you can edit the options to create a custom certificate to that course.

When I install the plugin, it does create an Activity Module called Simple Certificate. I don't see anywhere to add an activity to my course. There is currently only one activity showing in my course via my SCORM package uploaded with my course.

I think that my issue is with Moodle not marking my course complete when someone passes the test. The test is the only measuing stick by which the course is marked complete, however, even though I have the course set to be marked complete when any of the conditions occur (complete activity of passing grade on test), it doesn't mark my course complete, and if I understand how your plugin works, it would trigger the ability for the certificate to be printed.

The plugin works like any other activity module, if you must create it in your course to work !, and the user must click in the activity to get the certificate, it's not automatic !

If in you course you can only see SCORM upload there is something wrong with moodle installation or you set your course format as SCORM, try to change to topics, or weeks

New version: v2.1.1 - 2013092800, Enjoy

improvements

#28 -TCPDF ERROR: Can't open image file
#33 - put check boxes in bulk operations
#35 - Put SIMPLECERT_PER_PAGE e SIMPLECERT_MAX_PER_PAGE in settings

fixed bugs

#30 - Wrong translation
#32 - Wrong db field
#34 - The head of table in bulk operation is not translated

Just attempted upgrading via Moodle Interface for upgrading plugins.

Got to the screen for upgrading the DB for the plugin. Clicked continue and blank screen after that. Purged all caches, cleared APC opcode cache, removed browser cookie. Could login again, but ... white screen of death (wsod) kicked in again.

Turned on debugging via config file as all screens were wsod.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /..../mod/simplecertificate/settings.php on line 36

CentOS release 6.4, PHP 5.3.3

Moodle: 2.4.6+ (Build: 20130913)

Line 38 of code contains:

tings->add(new admin_setting_configcheckbox('simplecertificate/disablecode',

To recover and be able to use the system, renamed the mod/simplecertificate folder to .simplecertificate (dot in front hides it from Moodle). But, the one simplecert used is, of course, broken.

Fix?

Corrupted lines ... downloaded the plugin from plugins at Moodle.org. Unzipped the zip locally, pulled up settings.php file in local text file, and copied the un-corrputed code into the settings.php file on server via terminal/nano.

Everything works now.

'spirit of sharing', Ken

Thanks for sharing, may help someone.

I thing moodle has to improve this interface for upgrading, like put an checksum to verify the downloaded file before install, so corrupted download will be avoid.

i open a ticket with your post

https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-42063

Am assuming the links found in plugins via web and the updates point to the same .zip file. From reply sounds like that's true and the package doesn't contain corrupted settings.php file. The corruption occurred either on download or during the upgrade process ... which has to unzip the package.

Think vr 2.5.x does do some checking for validity of package/ downloads/etc. Will check with that version when I find some time. The version used with the issue was the highest 2.4.x.

'spirit of sharing', Ken

after upgrading to 2.1.1 the plugin does not work anymore. When a student tries to download a certificate they only get a blank screen.

Which moodle version?

The user Ken Task had the same problem, try this:

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=222296#p1043264

i am using moodle 2.2

I don't have the same problem as ken. i can still access the site only the plugin does not function for the students.

@jeroen Arends

Am running all moodles at 2.4 or 2.5 right now so don't know if 2.2 has this in the admin menu or not, but something to check

Site Admin - Users - Permissions - Capability overview

Set to student then search with the term 'simple'.

The 'mod/simplecertificate:view' should be allowed.

If you do NOT have that admin tool in 2.2, check the permissions on role of student. Looking for the same above ... set to allow.

'spirit of sharing', Ken

permissions are set correctly.

Well, then ????

Are you using login as 'student' when testing or do you have a true test student account?

Are you using completion criteria ... ie, student must do A, B, C before they can get Certificate? Is the activity set for groups?

Blank pages does indicate a problem, obviously ... the only other thing I could suggest is to turn on debugging and then login as a test student.

'spirit of sharing', Ken

My bad, there is a BUG in this versions, it fixed in github, soon i will release a new version with bug correction and some improvements

Reporting another issue ... latest version of simplecert installed ... Moodle 2.4.highest - CentOS PHP 5.3.3.

Using latest FireFox.

[Wed Oct 09 18:00:53 2013] [error] [client IPADDRESSofclient] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method core_renderer::tabtree() in /var/www/html/mod/simplecertificate/locallib.php on line 1083, referer: http://site/course/view.php?id=4

After setting up a simplecert, when clicking the link to it, get blank page with only header of the moodle site and the beginning of the rest of the page (blocks/content/etc are gone). There is a 'box' started with certificate in the content area. Switching themes made no diff.

Commented out the line referenced above: 1083

// echo $OUTPUT->tabtree($tabs, $tab);

Now renders and can click links to acquire cert, but there might be some other functionality now broken ... don't know and really don't have the time right now to investigate more.

'spirit of sharing', Ken

Hi Carlos. First off, great plugin. Quick question for you. If I'm logged in as a user called Training Manager. When I navigate to the Issued Certificates tab for a course it lists the users who have certificates just fine. However, if I click on the PDF link, it opens up in a new browser window and instead of the {username} variable saying John Doe like it should it says Training Manager. If I navigate to Bulk Operations tab and download the certificate it has the correct name on it, John Doe.

Did I do something wrong? Maybe I have a configuration setting wrong?

I attached a screenshot and spliced the two screens so you can see that the certificate was awarded to John Doe but comes up as Training Manager.

Hi Colling, seems it's reissuing the certificate to current user (Traning Manager) than only download the generated certificate file.
Looks like a bug, i will verify that

Ok. I have some more info on how to reproduce the problem.

From memory, I logged in as Training Manager (which has the non-editing teacher role and can manage and view simple certificate) and before I went to 'issued certificates' and clicked on John Doe pdf link, I clicked on 'issue a test certificate' and Get Certificate. I then went to 'Issued certificates' and clicked on John Doe in which case I got Training Manager on the certificate not John Doe. So if you follow that process it will reproduce my problem.

Here is how I got it to work properly. I loaded a fresh moodledata and db and went a different route. This time, instead of Training Manager going to 'Issue a test certificate' I went directly to 'Issued certificates' and clicked on the link to John Doe pdf link. Everything displays as it should. It works! However, once the Training Manager clicks 'issue a test certificate' and 'Get Certificate' it looks to reissue the certificate using the Training Manager {USERNAME} not John Doe and the problem exists again. Once that happens John Doe never displays again correctly from the link inside 'issued certificates'.

Anyways, I can't find a way to disable the 'issue a test certificate' tab so I await your next reply. It would be a great addition to have a permission available for 'issue a test certificate' to turn it off because I know users with this role are going to click the 'Get Certificate' link and will not be able to get their students certificates.

Thanks Carlos!

-Colin

I was going to asks how you get the bug, because i can't reproduce it, :D, but you has put the steps right now.

It's looks like some cache/temp file problems,

I follow your steps with an admin account and it's working properly, i don't test with non-editing teacher.

and what your moodle version ?

I tested with non editing teacher and works fine too

It's look like some tempfile problem, i will try to review my code to put more random strings in test certificate filename, it could avoid this problem

I'm running 2013092800 with Moodle 2.5.2+ (Build: 20130913)

Is there a safe way to just comment out 'issue a test certificate' so the user with these permissions can't click 'Get Certificate' ?

Or maybe a file I can clean up in moodledata?

I started with a fresh db and moodledata again and flushed the cache before doing any certificate generation. John Doe is coming up like it should even if I 'issue a test certificate' first using Training Manager. I'm still interested in turning on/off 'issue a test certificate' though in the permissions. I guess a feature request at this point. Thanks for checking on this though. Thanks Carlos.

Hi there,

I am having a problem with the certificate issue. When a user finishes the course the certificate link becomes available. But when the certificate is clicked I get the message: "The certificate can't be issued, because the user hasn't reached the course objectives" The objectives is 100 score completion and student even shows as passed. It is the same settings used with the previous version that works. I have just updated to the latest Simple Certificate version, then when i got the error, tried to uninstall the module and re install it. Are there any ideas as to what might be causing the issue? I am running the latest version of 2.5.2+.

Cheers

Steve

this plugin checks Completion params and access restriction params, i think there is some completion configuration in your certificate activity (in Activity completion section)

Hi there, I'm having the same trouble as Steve. I get the message "The certificate can't be issued, because the user hasn't reached the course objectives"... and I don't know how to fix it.

The certificate shows as being completed by the Activity completion, but it doesn't actually issue any certificates.

Help Please!!

Moodle has conditional activities and activity completion , and this certificate has Required minutes in course too

1-Verify if there is no "conditional rules" to access he certificate;

2-Verify Activity completion section;

3-Verify Required minutes in course

Hi Kate...! did you solve this issue ?? I'm getting exactly the sama as you are. Please give me some feedback. Thanks!!!!

Hi, I am seeing this issue too. I use 'activity completion' and 'completion tracking' all the time. But seems the S.C. might have a bug.

My certificate is set to "Student must view this activity to complete it", They click the SC link, viewing the SC activity, and there by complete it (it shows up completed in the course completion report block)

- but the page tells them:

The certificate can't be issued, because the user hasn't reached the course objectives.

Seems like the activity completion is being tested on issuing the certificate rather that viewing the view.php page, that lets the learner trigger the certificate ? I'm making a somewhat tested guess.

After I remove the activity completion setting "Student must view this activity to complete it",
learners can get to it just fine, let's then click "Get Certificate"

I'll try to compare code to the other certificate mod...

For some reason the {TEACHERS} variable does not show up any values on the certificate but the other variables are working fine? Any help is appreciated. I am running Moodle 2.5. Thanks!

It's works fine here, which moodle version ?

how many teachers ?

it's a non-editing teachers ?

New simplecertificate version v.2.1.2

Fixed BUGS:

#39 No certificate are displayed in moodle 2.2 bug
#42 Fatal error: Call to undefined method core_renderer::tabtree() in /home/elo.ja.nl/www/mod/simplecertificate/locallib.php on line 1083 on moodle 2.4 bug
#43 Error when upgrading - Moodle 2.4 branch bug
#46 Bulk operations : Doesn't write the grade on pdf bug
#47 Front text is printed in front and in back page, back text is ignored bug

Enhancements:

#41 improve {TEACHERS}
#44 Add "send to e-mail" in bulk operation
#48 Create a test case checklist
#49 put a white background in QR code

Plugin version for moodle 2.6 is release !

Hi Carlos.

Thanks for the plugin, it's exactly what I'm looking for. However, I have a problem with it: i have the issue options selected as Email User the PDF. I do get the email, but no attachement, even though it's coming up on-screen fine.

Any ideas on howto fix this? Thanks!

Hugh.

Hi Carlos - I meant to say, I'm on Moodle 2.6 with the new version, but it happened in 2.5.1 for me as well exactly the same.....

If you have the last plugin version (2.1.2) you could try to send using bulk operations, please test it.
Some e-mail servers has a policy to not accept mail attachments, could be that too, try other email.

In my test i used my gmail and hotmail accounts without any problem.

Hi Carlos,

Version is 2013111900. And as for Bulk Operations, do you mean sending a message to Bulk Users? You can't add file attachments in that. However I can confirm that Moodle is sending me through badges correctly which attach the JPG. I've also spoken to my hosting company and they confirm that there are no restrictions placed on my email sending - it will send email attachements up to 20MB. The PDF's are 1.1MB - and I am getting the email declaring that there is an attachment but there isn't one.

Any ideas?

Hugh.

---And as for Bulk Operations, do you mean sending a message to Bulk Users?

No, if you access simplecertificate activity as admin, or as editing teacher, you will see an option called "Bulk Operations" (see attachment) , which you can mail the certificate to all users (or selected ones) in the course.

---I've also spoken to my hosting company and they confirm....

This problem is not in your service provide, it's not in sending, it's on service provide of the users which is receiving the e-mail, but you can test that using a another email, as i saying, my test was made using gmail.com and hotmail.com recipients.

Hi Carlos.

Thanks for the reply. I think the problem though is at this end rather than the users. I tested the bulk operations you suggested and again I received the email in exchange, and hotmail with no attachment.

I turned verbose debugging on though and I have errors. Here are the issues in the log I can see which might be causing the problem - What do you think? ....I've commented at the end of the debug message btw.....

Debug:

Could not access file: E:\web\gravyforthe\htdocs\moodle\App_Data/E:\web\gravyforthe\htdocs\moodle\App_Data\temp\mod_simplecertificate\Tes8A1F.tmp

SMTP -> get_lines(): $data was ""SMTP -> get_lines(): $str is "220 sm10.internetmailserver.net

"SMTP -> get_lines(): $data is "220 sm10.internetmailserver.net

"SMTP -> FROM SERVER:220 sm10.internetmailserver.net

CLIENT -> SMTP: EHLO www.gravyforthebrain.com

-----blah blah blah------

"SMTP -> get_lines(): $data is "250 OK

"SMTP -> FROM SERVER:250 OK

CLIENT -> SMTP: QUIT

SMTP -> get_lines(): $data was ""SMTP -> get_lines(): $str is "221 Service closing transmission channel

"SMTP -> get_lines(): $data is "221 Service closing transmission channel

"SMTP -> FROM SERVER:221 Service closing transmission channel

TCPDF ERROR: Some data has already been output, can't send PDF file

-----

My guess is that this is a bug as it is trying to find:

E:\web\gravyforthe\htdocs\moodle\App_Data/E:\web\gravyforthe\htdocs\moodle\App_Data\temp\mod_simplecertificate\Tes8A1F.tmp

....when it should be trying to find:

E:\web\gravyforthe\htdocs\moodle\App_Data\temp\mod_simplecertificate\Tes8A1F.tmp

I'd be grateful for your help on trying to fix this...

Could not access file: E:\web\gravyforthe\htdocs\moodle\App_Data/E:\web\gravyforthe\htdocs\moodle\App_Data\temp\mod_simplecertificate\Tes8A1F.tmp

It's a bug for windows environment only.

It's cause by "folder separation string". I'm using linux , and this string is '/' and in windows is '\', i will fix that

thanks for report!

Apply this patch , and try again, i think it's fix the problem

to apply the patch (must have git installed):

1-Download patch file;

2-copy to you moodle mod/simplecertificate folder

3-use the command: git am -3 0102-fixed-57.patch

4- remove 0102-fixed-57.patch

Hi Carlos.

Thank you for your time and effort. Unfortunately I'm on a hosted server and I recieved this from my support guys:

"GIT is a sofisticated version control software. We are not running GIT in our production shared environment, therefore, it is not possible to update/patch your moodle application running on our server with git. You can do so only in your local / development environment. "

Is there anyway you could send me the files I need so I can upload them? I have access to the back end db a well if necessary..

Thank you so much!

Hugh.

Humm, send the file will be not possible, because has others modifications, i still developing it :D

but i will send am walkthrough (it's simple) to you:

in file mod/simplecertificate/locallib.php

inside function send_certificade_email($issuecert)

in lines (698 and 699):

$relativefilepath = str_replace($CFG->dataroot . '/', "", $fullfilepath);

            if (strpos($relativefilepath, '/', 1) === 0)

change to:

$relativefilepath = str_replace($CFG->dataroot . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, "", $fullfilepath);

            if (strpos($relativefilepath, DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, 1) === 0)

make a backup of the file before changes

Hi Carlos,

I notice that your certificate can be emailed to the student.

Would it be possible to re-notify the student via email that based on the certificate date that the course needed to be done again? For example an annual Fire Safety compliance course. It would be good to be able to set the number of days between certificate issue and the reminder.

I hope this is possible

Cheers

Mark

I think this could be done with course completion settings , but i don't know if has an automatic way to do that.
I know a site which do this sort of thing :

http://alfred.cc/

It's a system that interacts with moodle, and sends, automatically, all kind of alerts to users, like:
- Users that not participate for more than X days;
- An activity near to expire and user must participate (sends only to user that not has completed the activity);
- New items in course;

Hi Carlos,

I've popped this into a different thread - I hope this is ok. Is there a way to edit the text/subject in the email that is sent to users? An XML file of something similar or is it hard-coded?

Thanks!

Hugh.

Yes, there is, in moodle translate tool you can do that

'emailstudentsubject' and 'emailstudenttext'

I installed the module in 2.6. I can add Simple Certificate as an activity to a test course in weekly format. However, when I login as a student, I can see all activities except for the certificate activity. I have no restricted access or completion requirements set. Am I missing something? If I login with the admin account, the certificate activity displays appropriately.

Check your student permissions.

Thanks! I spent an entire day on this. Such a simple fix.

Thanks for help, Emma

Hi,

I just installed simple certificate the latest version just now, on a moodle 2.6 install on linux.

I was wanting to know how do i get the certificate to appear when the student has completed the work. but not before.. is this possible.

Many thanks for your help.

I think it's possible using moodle completion framework

See

http://docs.moodle.org/26/en/Category:Completion

Hi Carlos,

All is working brilliantly with this plugin - thanks for creating it. I've tried to change the text in the Lang>En>simplecertificate.php file for one of my on-screen messages - however this isn't reflected on-screen. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? Is this caching somewhere etc?!

Thanks.

Hugh.

Could be lang cache made by moodle, it's good thing for production sites, but for developing ... , try to disabling it, o purge all caches. If doesn't work send me the page and the text you are trying to change, i can forgot to put it in lang "format".

Is there a way to have a fraction of an hour or a decimal in the Hours in course field? Whenever I put something like .5 or 0.5 the hours field is blank on the certificate. If I put in 1/2, it shows as 1 hour on the certificate.

Today, it's not possible to put a fraction , decimal hours

This option it's only to put how many hours this course is design for,
it's an 40 hours course, is 300 hours course ... and so on.

In my country this is a important information, for example MBA courses must have at least 240 hours. It's optional field (can leave it blank) and if you don't put {HOURS} in your certificate text, it don't display nothing.

In future versions this variable will not exists anymore, because you can simple substitute it by a text in your certificate, like "Course duration (workload): 30 minutes"

Ok, thanks for the information. We are using Moodle to track Continuing Education hours and some courses are only 30 minutes long. I'll pass this along to my instructors.

Moodle v.2.5.1 + Oracle 11.2.0.1.0

Simple Certificate version 2013111200

------------------------------------------------

I have a course with four tests, and a certificate associated with each test. As configured, the certificates are only available when the related test is passed with a grade of 70% or higher. Each certificate is also configured to email the certificate to the student and notify the course administrator when the certificate is completed. I am experiencing a problem with messages being sent to the course administrator for two certificates when the link on the course main page is selected, and no message is being sent to the course administrator for one certificate when the 'get certificate' button is selected. The following are the exact symptoms for each situation

	When I select the certificate link on the course home page	When I select ‘Get Certificate’
Category I Certificate	No message is sent to the course administrator. (This is what I expect should happen.)	Certificate is sent to the ‘student’ but no message is sent to the course administrator. (Why isn’t a message sent to the course administrator?)
Category II Certificate	Message is sent to the course administrator: SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR has received their certificate: 'Certificate of Completion-Category II' for P.O.S.T. State Certification Exams. You can review it here: https://nvelearn.nv.gov/moodle/mod/simplecertificate/view.php?id=10041&tab=1 (Why is a message sent when the link to the certificate page is selected?)	Certificate is sent to the ‘student’ and the course administrator receives the following message: SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR has received their certificate: 'Certificate of Completion-Category II' for P.O.S.T. State Certification Exams. You can review it here: https://nvelearn.nv.gov/moodle/mod/simplecertificate/view.php?id=10041&tab=1 (This is what I expect would happen.)
Reserve Certificate	Message is sent to the course administrator: SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR has received their certificate: 'Certificate of Completion-Reserve' for P.O.S.T. State Certification Exams. You can review it here: https://nvelearn.nv.gov/moodle/mod/simplecertificate/view.php?id=10043&tab=1 (Why is a message sent when the link to the certificate page is selected?)	Certificate is sent to the ‘student’ and the course administrator receives the following message: SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR has received their certificate: 'Certificate of Completion-Reserve' for P.O.S.T. State Certification Exams. You can review it here: https://nvelearn.nv.gov/moodle/mod/simplecertificate/view.php?id=10043&tab=1 (This is what I expect would happen.)

Here is how the course main page is set up...

Here is how each Certificate is configured with the exception of the 'Certificate Text' field which is different for each test that is associated with each Certificate.

Thank you for any assistance.

The notification messages should be sent only when the user clicks in "get certificate", and only one time, even if user clicks many times in get certificate ...

The certificate sent to user's mail, should be sent every time the users clicks in "get certificate"

Anything different it's wrong and can be a bug, i will test it, buti don't know when i will do it, if anyone can test it trying to reproduce this bug, will help me a lot.

Thank you for this great certificate module! I got it working just fine. One question:

If I set certlifetime = 0 will my certificates stay ? I want to keep our certificates

(Keep issued certificates for: (in Months) simplecertificate | certlifetime)

Thanks again

Yes, if you put 0 or less deactivate certificate clean up during cron process

Hi Carlos! As requested, here are my suggestions...

If you don't mind, I have a few suggestions for a future release of this wonderful plugin. Would it be possible to:

1) Update the description page so that it indicates that your plugin is compatible with Moodle 2.6? The Download versions page indicates that it is compatible with Moodle 2.6 but the Description page says it is only compatible up to Moodle 2.5. Can you ?

2) Have Moodle filter support? We run a bilingual (English/French) site where users would want their certificates to be created the in the current site language. The functions format_string() and format_text() would need to be applied. For more information, see http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Output_functions.

3) Have a dropdown menu containing a list of certificate templates so that they would not have to be re-created each time someone creates a course? That way one could load a certificate and then just make minor changes as needed.

4) Expand the fonts? No matter what I do, the font always seems to be narrow. I was also going to ask if it would also be possible to add more sizes so that I could make fonts larger but then realized that I could probably do that in HTML. Still, it would be nice to have sizes available up to 72 pt.

5) Make the QR code in the Test Certificate verifiable? Either that or include a message somewhere that says it can't be verified. I spent some time testing the QR code with my phone only to eventually realize that it wasn't the Captcha I was typing that wasn't working.

6) Give the code below the QR Code image a solid background colour in case it is printed over an image?

That's it for now. Thanks again for all your great work!

Best regards,

Michael Milette

Thanks to post here:

Here we go:

Descriptions are old, but installation instructions not changed, it's the same.
I don't read this moodle doc yet, but i don't know how moodle framework can translate the certificate text, an images, to English, French , and so on i don't know if it is possible, it's better to do is create 2 certificate activities one with French other in English
Template could be a good idea, user can configure and save as template, for now you can create a backup only with certificate activity, and you will have a "template" file
I think it's possible, the problem is TCPF lib in moodle don't have too many fonts, you can install it in your moodle and use this http://docs.moodle.org/24/en/Simple_certificate_module#Languages_with_special_character
for size you can use html font size
Administrator certificates are not saved, so can't be verified. The only way is using QR URL, see if code variable in URL is the same written below QR code image
HUmm, i will fix that, putting as bug in the issue track, next version will be fixed

Thanks for the quick response Carlos.

2. You can create certificates that will work in any language by not having any text in the image and using Moodle's Multi-language content filter, included with Moodle, or the Multi-lingual Content filter which I find easier to use. Moodle supports many other filters to help transform information besides those used for multiple languages.

Our site makes extensive use of these to make strings appear in the users language. For example, using the Multi-lingual Content filter, the following would be inserted into a certificate to make the title appear in the correct language:

{mlang en}Certificate of Achievement{mlang}{mlang pt}Certificado de acordo{mlang}

(I don't speak Portuguese... hope I translated that correctly. I actually use English and French)

When the above string is processed through the format_string() or format_text() functions, it would filter out text tagged in languages other than the current language. This enables you to create a single certificate that works in any number of languages.

I noticed you are already using format_string() function in many places throughout the source code. I took a look at your code and noticed that there were just a few spots where a few more instances of the function in the locallib.php file is required.

For your convenience, I've submitted a pull request containing a few fixes:

https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/pull/68

Hope it helps. Feel free to ask if you have any questions regarding any of the changes.

Best regards,

Michael Milette

Ok, will do that, it's a good thing to plugin, but for images it's not possible, could be, but very very difficult task

For now i don't have munch time to plugin (that's a shame), but i will in future.

Thanks for the suggestion, if you have more, fill free to post here

PS: In Portuguese is: Certificado de Conclusão :D

Olá Carlos,

Parabéns pelo excelente módulo desenvolvido. A facilidade de edição realmente ficou muito simples.

Estava fazendo uns testes e me deparei com uma dúvida( que também tem no módulo certificate original)

Se uso os métodos de autenticação: correio eletrônico e redes sociais em meu curso, por padrão os campos Firstname e Lastname são destravados e consequentemente o usuário consegue editar a qualquer momento o seu nome e sobrenome.

Finalizei um curso e fui fazer um teste: o usuário poderá emitir quantos certificados ele quiser para várias pessoas apenas alterando o nome e sobrenome.

Vi que o QRcode será sempre o mesmo, assim como o código gerado no módulo certificate também, mas o nome sempre será o registrado na base de dados.

Se eu bloquear o campo nome e sobrenome os próximos a fazerem inscrição no moodle não conseguem se cadastrar.

Por enquanto não vi outra solução a não ser contar com o bom senso do aluno.

O que acha? já passou por algo similar?

até breve

Olá Gisele,

Fico muito feliz em ver brasileiros participando e mostrando mais interesse.

Esse plugin, a partir da versão 2.1.2 (eu acho) ou a partir da próxima versão (2.2.1) a troca de nome do usuário não vai interferir em nada pois depois que o arquivo do certificado é gerado o plugin não o gera mais, ele verifica se o arquivo já existe, e se existir envia para o aluno.

A única forma dele regerar o certificado é se algum tutor fizer um update na atividade certificado. Isso evita qualquer tentativa de gerar certificados com outro nome por exemplo

----

Só mais uma coisa Gisele, esse fórum é em inglês, criei um fórum especialmente para postagem em português, pode continuar usar esse aqui, mas tem que traduzir para inglês ok

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=230459

Hi Is there any possibility to have a variable for the user picture so that it can be used to display/print in the certificate also?

I think about this issue for a long time, how to solve it, i think i get it, i will try something for 2.2.1 version of this plugin. so stay tuned :D

Ok thanks looking forward to that version ..

Olá Carlos

Criei alguns campos personalizados para meus alunos (como RG e CPF), e gostaria de exibir estes campos no certificado. Tentei usar no certificado algo como {nome_do_campo} mas não funcionou.

Há alguma forma de utilizar meus campos personalizados no certificado?

Obrigado!

See the post:

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=222296#p1031427

And please, this is english forum, for Portuguese posts use this forum:

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=230459

Carlos

I'm sorry about that.

That is exactly what i needed

thank you!

New Version release:

v2.1.3 - 2014030100

Changes and fixes:

#66 Put white background color in code text (below QRcode picture)
#62 paging in Bulk operations doesn't work correctly
#60 Clear not set variables
#57 folder separation string
#55 Manager certificate is not removed
#54 certdatefmt left with old values after upgrade
#53 Fix some tables parameters
#65 Verify completation

Hi Carlos. I installed it on my 2.6.1 Moodle and after the screen where it says "installation successful" and coming to add new settings I get the following error:

It is not allowed to set the property cm_info::$courseid

line 1249 of /lib/modinfolib.php: call to debugging()
line 591 of /mod/simplecertificate/lib.php: call to cm_info->__set()
line 617 of /mod/simplecertificate/lib.php: call to simplecertificate_get_mods()
line 30 of /mod/simplecertificate/settings.php: call to simplecertificate_get_date_options()
line 89 of /lib/classes/plugininfo/mod.php: call to include()
line 35 of /admin/settings/plugins.php: call to core\plugininfo\mod->load_settings()
line 6389 of /lib/adminlib.php: call to require()
line 22 of /admin/upgradesettings.php: call to admin_get_root()

Had to uninstall it.

which plugin version, last one ?

2.1.3 ?

i get this error now, but certificate was created and issued, i will fix it

Works ok now after installing the updated version. Many thanks!

Marius

Hello Carlos,

Thank you so much for this wonderful plugin, it has really made my life so much easier!

I would like to focus on the certificate verification part, it works like a charm as it is but I would like to extend its functionality: to send an email notification to the student every time someone verifies his/her certificate. Could you direct me to the right direction in order to implement this? I'm still a newbie in moodle development but if you direct me more or less I can figure it out.

Thank you in advance,

Thalia

Best place to start is just after add_to_log function call in verify.php

Hi Carlos,

first of all, thanks for simple certificate. It surely takes a lot of time and passion to keep it up & running.

I am thinking about switching from ILIAS to Moodle, got a fresh installation of moodle with certificate and simple certificate for testings.

The plugin certificate works fine, including the creating of certificates. But it is from my point of view way hard to customize, especially if you offer more than one course. The plugin simple certificate unfortunately creates here an error if I want to get a certificate created: PHP catchable fatal error. That was surprising for me, too. So I turned on the debug and maybe this can help to sort it out:

---boc---

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$numsections in /var/www/.../moodle/mod/simplecertificate/lib.php on line 567

Coding problem: $PAGE->context was not set. You may have forgotten to call require_login() or $PAGE->set_context(). The page may not display correctly as a result

    line 451 of /lib/pagelib.php: call to debugging()
    line 734 of /lib/pagelib.php: call to moodle_page->magic_get_context()
    line 1394 of /lib/weblib.php: call to moodle_page->__get()
    line 1259 of /lib/grade/grade_item.php: call to format_string()
    line 575 of /lib/conditionlib.php: call to grade_item->get_name()
    line 525 of /lib/conditionlib.php: call to condition_info_base::get_grade_name()
    line 131 of /lib/conditionlib.php: call to condition_info_base::fill_availability_conditions_inner()
    line 1065 of /course/lib.php: call to condition_info::fill_availability_conditions()
    line 617 of /lib/modinfolib.php: call to get_array_of_activities()
    line 450 of /lib/modinfolib.php: call to course_modinfo::build_course_cache()
    line 411 of /lib/modinfolib.php: call to course_modinfo->__construct()
    line 2003 of /lib/modinfolib.php: call to course_modinfo::instance()
    line 2842 of /lib/moodlelib.php: call to get_fast_modinfo()
    line 39 of /mod/simplecertificate/view.php: call to require_login()

---eoc---

I read about some themes creating that error, tried every theme that comes along with moodle. No effect, the "PHP catchable fatal error" is resistant to that.

Any advice or anything I can send to solve this?

Thanks for your patience,

Chris

which moodle and plugin versions, last one ?

2.1.3 ?

Those should be the latest versions, I downloaded them just a few days ago. Moodle 2.6.1+ and Simple Certificate 2014030100 (version number copied from Plugins Overview).

New 2.1.3 version for 2.6 fixed

https://moodle.org/plugins/download.php/5589/mod_simplecertificate_2014031000.zip

Thanks a lot Carlos, it works.

what a shame, i "tested" the new version without enabling the debug mode

the fix are coming very soon

i must test other version too

Hi Carlos!

I have a question... On the display of the certificate To "GET CERTIFICATE" is it possible to remove the summary of marks from this page? My client doesn't like how it shows up before the get certificate button and would like it removed. But there is no option to "hide" it and i was unsure where to start to remove it displaying from the code.

If you need more information please let me know.
Thank you for your help in advance.

Nicole.

Possibles of course it is, but not without a change, because ther is no options for that.

This code is in view.php, you can change it, or try to hide things using CSS ....

Hi Carlos,

Thanks for creating this activity. I was wondering if you could add a modulename_help language string for the component mod_simplecertificate so that a description will appear in the right side of the Activity chooser when Simple Certificate is selected. Many of the activities have this help string and without one it just says "There is currently no help associated with this resource or activity".

Maybe something like:

The simple certificate activity module enables the teacher to create a custom certificate that can be issued to participants who have completed the teacher’s specified requirements.

This would help promote this module to our users.

Thank you for your consideration and your work on this module.

Drew

Ok, i can do that, in the next version

you can follow the progress at:

https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/issues?milestone=6&state=open

Thanks Carlos!

Hello Carlos,

really thanks for this great moodle module!
I have an answer:

using {FIRSTNAME} tag you can display the student name,
using {LASTNAME} tag you can display the surname,
using {USERNAME} tag you can display both of them

but is possible display the username, that used to log in?

Thank you in advanced,

Antonio

P.S. Today I started to translate the module in my language, the italian.

Sure there is, but not with {USERNAME} text mark

I will create a new one, i think something like {LOGIN}, but only in new versions.

and thanks for translation

Great!

Can you tell me approximately when the new version will be available?

Very hard to say, since i only work on this when i have some free time

but you can see the progress here:

https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/issues?milestone=6&state=open

OK, thanks again for your work!

It's possibile to do a little change in this module files about the definition of the "username" variable?

I can obtain fullname using fistname and lastname and i could use username variable to display $user->username... (the change would concern a single file)

I can't find something about your module's license, let me know if it's possible to do this little change waiting for your new version (that will surely be great!)

I can not do this due to the legacy support.
Many people use this certificate with this text mark to display the full name, so change it to display login username will make all certificates becomes wrong.

It could change it in update script, but would not be something easy to do, and there is any benefits on this.
The text marks are well documented, so create a new one it's not a problem at all.

The module license is in the source code
GNU GPL v3

Hi Antonio, i m also trying to do the same, because in our institution we use students´s number ID card for login, so in $user->username we find that information very importan for certificates. Could you do something related that?

Thanks!!

This plugin will not add username in any text mark, it's could be an security issue

In your case, user has the id number properties and idnumber have an text mark, you can use this

Carlos,

Line 1237 in the \mod\simplecertificate\locallib.php page of your Simple Certificate activity contains:

$limitsql = " LIMIT $perpage" . " OFFSET " . $page * $perpage ;

which adds a "LIMIT ... OFFSET ..." parameter to the $issedusers SQL:

    $issedusers = $DB->get_records_sql("SELECT u.*, ci.code, ci.timecreated
    FROM {user} u
    INNER JOIN {simplecertificate_issues} ci
    ON u.id = ci.userid
    WHERE u.deleted = 0
    AND ci.certificateid = :certificateid
    AND timedeleted IS NULL
    ORDER BY {$sort} {$limitsql}", array('certificateid' => $this->id));

SQL Server does not support "LIMIT" and "OFFSET" so that "LIMIT ... OFFSET ..." parameter effectively breaks the plugin on MS SQL Server:

Default exception handler: Error reading from database Debug: SQLState: 42000<br>
Error Code: 102<br>
Message: [Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 10.0][SQL Server]Incorrect syntax near 'LIMIT'.<br>

SELECT u.*, ci.code, ci.timecreated
				FROM mdl_user u
				INNER JOIN mdl_simplecertificate_issues ci
				ON u.id = ci.userid
				WHERE u.deleted = 0
				AND ci.certificateid = '1'
				AND timedeleted IS NULL
				ORDER BY   CAST(firstname AS NVARCHAR(255))  +  CAST(' ' AS NVARCHAR(255))  +  CAST(lastname AS NVARCHAR(255))    LIMIT 30 OFFSET 0
[array (
  0 => '1',
)]
Error code: dmlreadexception
* line 423 of \lib\dml\moodle_database.php: dml_read_exception thrown
* line 260 of \lib\dml\sqlsrv_native_moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->query_end()
* line 367 of \lib\dml\sqlsrv_native_moodle_database.php: call to sqlsrv_native_moodle_database->query_end()
* line 788 of \lib\dml\sqlsrv_native_moodle_database.php: call to sqlsrv_native_moodle_database->do_query()
* line 836 of \lib\dml\sqlsrv_native_moodle_database.php: call to sqlsrv_native_moodle_database->get_recordset_sql()
* line 1248 of \mod\simplecertificate\locallib.php: call to sqlsrv_native_moodle_database->get_records_sql()
* line 1338 of \mod\simplecertificate\locallib.php: call to simplecertificate->get_issued_certificate_users()
* line 83 of \mod\simplecertificate\view.php: call to simplecertificate->view_issued_certificates()

Is there a way to build that $issedusers SQL without using LIMIT ... OFFSET... so that your plugin works on SQL Server hsoted Moodle sites?

Read the PHPdoc for get_records_sql

https://github.com/moodle/moodle/blob/master/lib/dml/moodle_database.php#L1308

This is what the $limitfrom and $limitnum arguments are for.

Thanks, that will save a lot of time

This is an old code, and i has sure there is a way to do this without limit/offset, i just need to study how to do this, i think i can "steal" the code from others mods, or from grade framework.

Hi there can I modify the QR code based on our own format? Also where can I see the code for that ? Thanks

yes you can change it, but i use a lib to generate QR code, so there is no code (implemented by me) to generate it, only function calls

As you can see in:

https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/blob/MOODLE_26/locallib.php#L621

Hi!!

And congratulations for your work.

I would like to use the "digital signature certification" option of TCPDF library (see an example of use in http://www.tcpdf.org/examples/example_052.phps).

Is it possible?

Possible i think it is, but this plugin don't do that, so you must change the code to do this

I can add as a feature request, but will not be available soon

When I save my text, debugger says:

Warning: mysqli::real_escape_string() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/www.unipocle.it/lib/dml/mysqli_native_moodle_database.php on line 859 Warning: mysqli::real_escape_string() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/www.unipocle.it/lib/dml/mysqli_native_moodle_database.php on line 859

Really the certificate results blank. Can somebody explain me what I can do?

Moodle 2.6.2 simplecertificate 2.1.3 theme elegance

Thanks

I don't know about this errors, i don't use mysql, and there is no reference in debug info to the plugin files or functions, but seems like a encoding problem

Some users has reported problems with some themes, you can test this switching to default theme and trying again

Hi Carlos

i Try to use SimpleCertificate in Moodle 2.7. Installation its ok, but when i try to add a new custom certificate after complete all fields i have this error and debug info

Debug info:
Error code: codingerror

Stack trace:

line 111 of \lib\classes\event\calendar_event_created.php: coding_exception thrown
line 252 of \lib\classes\event\base.php: call to core\event\calendar_event_created->validate_data()
line 2255 of \calendar\lib.php: call to core\event\base::create()
line 2647 of \calendar\lib.php: call to calendar_event->update()
line 535 of \mod\simplecertificate\lib.php: call to calendar_event::create()
line 97 of \mod\simplecertificate\lib.php: call to simplecertificate_send_event()
line 113 of \course\modlib.php: call to simplecertificate_add_instance()
line 268 of \course\modedit.php: call to add_moduleinfo()

Output buffer: Warning: mysqli::real_escape_string() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in C:\xampp\htdocs\capacitacion\lib\dml\mysqli_native_moodle_database.php on line 881 Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$timestart in C:\xampp\htdocs\capacitacion\calendar\lib.php on line 2183

Any chance to solve or upgrade to be compatible with 2.7 version of Moodle?

Thanks in advance

it's not compatiple with moodle 2.7 yet, and i don't know when i will do that, i think in june
but it was in plan

as you can see in :
https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/issues/82

Hi Carlos,
Thank you so much for the certificate module, it works great. Could you please let us know how we may send email with the certificate automatically, once student completed the quiz in the course? Do you plan to add such a functionality in the nearest future?

Thank you,
Gennady

It can send e-mail to users (in bulk operations), but not automatically.

I don't know if it's possible, moodle framework must give a support to do that, something like, when quiz finished it's send a event which my plugin (and others) could do what needed, in the case, send certificate to user email.

Something like observer design pattern

what shame, this request it's in my github, and moodle has a events framework support, but i don't know when it will be implemented

https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/issues/85

Thank you Carlos,

There is Jay Knight's solution, that I'm going to try when I have time:

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=190656#p932145

Regards,
Gennady

This solution it's not for simplecertificate plugin, it's for certificate plugin

Hi!!

Two questions about signed simplecertificate PDF file. I've modified the locallib.php file and now the certificates are digitally signed with a *.crt certificate. But:

1. I would like to add one field in the activity form, for telling the app the name of the *.crt file that I want to use for signed the PDF file. How can I add a new field?

2. The "Download certificates in one ZIP file" and "send by email" options does not produce signed PDF's. The rest of options works fine. How works these options?

Thanks!!

PD: I add my modified locallib file.

I think the better place to put this code is in save_pdf function.

to add a field in form:

http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Form_API

http://docs.moodle.org/dev/File_API

and remember you must include this file in backup too.

But the "send to email" option does not use the "save_pdf" function ... It doesn't works

Hi Carlos,

Could you please let us know what would be the easiest way to make "Issued certificates" tab to show certificates ordered by the date with the newest on top?

Thank you,
Gennady

it's don't have ordering options yet

Hi,
is it possible to add student's questions/answers to this certificate report? Can you show me right way, or say that, this is too hard to implement, or there is some option to do this..

Best regards and many thanks for your work.

Possible it is, but can be very hard, you can copy the code from quiz/question reports....

i will not implement this in the plugin

Thanks for your information.

Hi Carlos, what do you mean by "Users that met the course objectives" in the Bulk operations; Show dropdown menu? Because everytime I select that option it also lists all the users enrolled in the course/group. Where should I modify the objectives so that it only lists all with the conditions met? Thanks in advance..

Means that my english is awful :D, "Users that met the activity conditions" will be better translation.

If the simplecertificate activity have a condition, or completion, and the users don't met it, will not be in list.
To change that you must enable use conditional activities and completion in your moodle

http://docs.moodle.org/27/en/Conditional_activities

http://docs.moodle.org/27/en/Activity_completion

Hello Carlos,

I used your module in 2 courses using moodle 2.6 without problems.

I updated moodle to 2.7 version and everything is working, but if I try to use simplecertificate as new activity or if i try to update the 2 simplecertificate instances now online I obtain this error:

The 'timestart' value must be set in other

Can you help me?

Thanks in advanced!

This plugin is not compatible with moodle 2.7 yet

When will this be compatible with Moodle 2.7 Carlos? Will it work if we update to 2.9?

There is 2.7 and 2.9 version of this plugin, you only need to choose.

https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversions.php?plugin=mod_simplecertificate

Hi Carlos,

We just installed Simple Certificate for Moodle 2.7 (with Totara). We placed it in a course with a SCORM object. However when we click on Issue a Test Certificate as an admin or view as a learner, we get a gray area where the certificate is supposed to be. I have attached screenshots for reference.

Turn on debug mode, or see the logs, without it i can't help

Hi Carlos,

I work for Richard. I did as you asked an turned on Debugging Mode. The error reported is:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class UUID in/home/icbc/public_html/totara/mod/simplecertificate/lib/lib.uuid.php on line 39

I took a look through the code of the plugin, you have used require_once() when calling the UUID class. I'm curious if there could be a conflict with another installed plugin?

We are using Totara 2.7.1 based on Moodle 2.7.7.

Sam

i don't know about torata, but this lib is only use to caculate an UUID for certificade code, try to to change to require not require_once

Thank you for your help Carlos, this has been resolved.

So share the problem and the result of it, can help other people

When you are scheduling to release new updated version of "Simple Certificate" module for "Moodle 2.7" ?

If we install "Simple Certificate" module for "Moodle 2.6" in "Moodle 2.7", it reports coding error.

Thanks in anticipation.

Invitation to test the new version of the plugin

Hello all,

A new plugin version is available (v2.2.0) only at github for now, because its a RC version (Release Candidate) to test if it's ok.

here the links:

Moodle 2.7:

https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/tree/MOODLE_27_RC

Moodle 2.6

https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/tree/MOODLE_26_RC

Moodle 2.5

https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/tree/MOODLE_25_RC

All this versions has passed in php_unit test and the basic operations are ok .
And i will not support older versions anymore (for moodle 2.4 and below), so, please, download and test it, and if it's allright the new version will be release in july 1st

It could be easier to test if i post how to install using git.

First, install git, following this guide:
http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-Installing-Git

After install go to terminal screen and go to your moodle root folder, and execute these commands:

cd mod
git clone https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate.git simplecertificate
cd simplecertificate
git checkout MOODLE_27_RC

Note, in the last command you must put the appropriate branch. In this example it's for moodle 2.7
Now login with admin account and the installation (or update) should starts, if not, you must go to the page admin/index.php
And you are ready to test.
If you find a bug, you can report here, but if you open a issue in github will be better (and quicker)

https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/issues

To update any changes/fixs in the code, go to terminal screen go to moodle root folder and type:

cd mod
cd simplecertificate
git pull

Do you not use this in production sites

Hello all, this is plugin twitter, please follow it to knows the latest news

@smplcertificade

Opss

Wrong twitter user, the right on is

@smplcertificate

New plugin version has just release

version 2.2.0

Improvements:
#87 Add ordering options in issued certificate page
#81 Being able to remove uploaded images in settings page
#70 Multilang certiticate text , with multilingual content filter (https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=filter_multilangsecond):
#59 Refactoring lib.php and locallib.php , will improve test units
#58 Put time in course in completation rule
#26 & #56 Only re-create a pdf file if certificate changes
#36 Put watermark in dowloaded certificates in verify page, if user don't match
#29 Webservice support
#89 Timestart date fmt

Text Marks:
#73 Enrollment start date text mark
#72 User Role Name in course Text Mark
#69 User image text mark
#61 Remove coursehours text mark
#25 Students Results in course Text Mark

Fixed bugs:
#93 wssendfile does not check haschange flag bug
#76 Fix LIMIT ... OFFSET ... breaks this plugin in MSSQL
#75 Add modulename_help in language files

When trying to upgrade on a moodle 2.7 site, the DB update throws error..

Current versoin is 2014031000. ( I know it is not for 2.7, but I tried it anyway.. )

Is there good way to fix this error? Or should I try to purge related table and clean install?

Error as follows:

====================

mod_simplecertificate

DDL sql execution error

More information about this error

Debug info: Unknown column 'haschange' in 'mdl_simplecertificate_issues'
ALTER TABLE mdl_simplecertificate_issues ADD pathnamehash VARCHAR(40) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci AFTER haschange
Error code: ddlexecuteerror

Stack trace:

line 449 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: ddl_change_structure_exception thrown
line 839 of /lib/dml/mysqli_native_moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->query_end()
line 76 of /lib/ddl/database_manager.php: call to mysqli_native_moodle_database->change_database_structure()
line 533 of /lib/ddl/database_manager.php: call to database_manager->execute_sql_arr()
line 301 of /mod/simplecertificate/db/upgrade.php: call to database_manager->add_field()
line 697 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to xmldb_simplecertificate_upgrade()
line 420 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins_modules()
line 1615 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins()
line 432 of /admin/index.php: call to upgrade_noncore()

This is a old build, not compatible to moodle 2.7, you must uninstall and install the new version, 2014060100, v2.2.0, it's compatible with 2.7

Thanks for the suggestion.. it is working now.

I have installed it on moodle 2.7 receiving the following message:

=====
mod_simplecertificate

Si è verificato un errore durante l'esecuzione di DDL sql

Maggiori informazioni su questo errore

Debug info: Unknown column 'haschange' in 'mdl_simplecertificate_issues'
ALTER TABLE mdl_simplecertificate_issues ADD pathnamehash VARCHAR(40) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci AFTER haschange
Error code: ddlexecuteerror
Stack trace:
line 449 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: ddl_change_structure_exception thrown
line 839 of /lib/dml/mysqli_native_moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->query_end()
line 76 of /lib/ddl/database_manager.php: call to mysqli_native_moodle_database->change_database_structure()
line 533 of /lib/ddl/database_manager.php: call to database_manager->execute_sql_arr()
line 301 of /mod/simplecertificate/db/upgrade.php: call to database_manager->add_field()
line 697 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to xmldb_simplecertificate_upgrade()
line 420 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins_modules()
line 1615 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins()
line 434 of /admin/index.php: call to upgrade_noncore()

are you trying to update the certificate plugin ?

It's a bug

i attach 3 patch file, download the specific version and apply it

How to apply (only for linux)

go to your moodle root folder and follow:

cd mod/simplecertificate
cp <PATCH FILE> .
patch -p1 <PATCH FILE>
rm <PATH FILE>

For example (moodle 2.7)

Donwload moodle27.pacth and save in my home folder

cd /var/www/moodle
cd mod/simplecertificate
cp ~/moodle27.pacth .
patch -p1 moodle27.pacth
rm moodle27.pacth

You can download and install the fixed version too (2014070500)

moodle 2.5 patch file

Hi Carlos,

I am having difficulty getting past the validation when trying to install your new plugin.

I wonder if it is associated with this discussion...

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=264130

Please see the images below that indicate the wrong version of Moodle and my Moodle info.

Validation failed image

Moodle version info...

Moodle version

I hope you are able to assist.

Cheers

Mark

Hello mark,

You are trying to install a moodle 2.7 plugin version into moodle 2.6.

Please download and install the correct plugin version

Here is the correct link:

https://moodle.org/plugins/download.php/6455/mod_simplecertificate_moodle26_2014070500.zip

Thanks Carlos !

I have used your link to manually add the simplecertificate to my Mod folder.

I rechecked ... it would appear that the Moodle org plugins identified my install as 2.6 but took me to the 2.7 plugin.

Thank you for your help.

Hi Carlos,

Can I ask a quick question (hopefully is the {timestart} field populated with the timesart field from mdl_user_enrolments table?

Users enrollment start date, as in the documentation

https://docs.moodle.org/24/en/Simple_certificate_module

Hello,

I am having an issue with the plugin; the latest version is installed on our 2.5.4+ server.

I have a course in the topics format, with a SCORM course (activity 1) with Activity Completion turned on, and it is completed, but the certificate (activity 2) is that it generates is blank. I can't seem to figure out why.

Even when I didn't have the activity completion turn on, the certificate that was generated was blank.

Also, what are the supported image type for Cert Image File? I can't find any information in the plugin documentation.

Thank you for any help.

I don't know why is generate a blank certificate, please try to activate debug mod for more information.

This plugin only has a support of Completion Framework (and conditional activity framework too), it can't void or grant access to an activity, this is Completion Framework jobs. Something wrong with completion data, try to reset it

The certificate is the final portion of the course, so nothing will depend on it being 'complete'.

I will go ahead and look at the completion settings for the activity above it.

Also, I ran into two errors while looking around the options, I have attached the screenshots of the errors.

What's your moodle version?,
and plugin version?

Moodle version is 2.5.4+ (Build: 20140207)

Plug-in version is Build: 2014070500

Hello,

First of all I want to thank you for this great module! It's easy to use and highly customizable. Nevertheless, I cannot find how to add the student's last name in the certificate generated. Only their first name appears. Is there an option or do I have to edit some file?

I'm using Moodle 2.6.2 and Simple Certificate 2.1.3.

Regards,

Thalia

Hi Thalia,

A list with all Text marks can be found at http://docs.moodle.org/24/en/Simple_certificate_module.

To show lastname ONLY, the text mark is {LASTNAME} , but users must fill this information in users profile fields.
To show Full user name, (firstname + lastname or lastname + firstname, depending on your moodle configuration) you can use {USERNAME} text mark.

Thank you for your quick answer!

Where should I place this text mark?

Regards,

Thalia

Hi Thalia, i think you don't understand how simple certificate works.

This plug-in has many textmarks that you put in your certificate text (first page or back page), and the plug-in will replace this textmarks to the right text.
See this sample

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=222296#p1023668

The {USERNAME} textmark will be replaced to full user name, for example

Thanks a lot, now I understand how to do it!

I have a couple more doubts you might be able to help me with.

1) I have added the certificate activity in a course and I want to copy it to another. To achieve this I export the activity and import it to the other course but then, the {COURSENAME} textmark still gives me the name of the first course. The name of the file also keeps the name of the first course. Is there a way to change this?

2) Can I make the QR code smaller?

Thank you again.

Thalia

1) There is a field in activity setting called Alternative course name, check it please (advanced settings)

2) no, you can't, but you can disable it, and reposition it

1) I can't find this field.. I've checked in the settings of the activity, of the course and any other setting I could find.. Where is it exactly?

2) Thanks! ;)

1) I can't find this field.. I've checked in the settings of the activity, of the course and any other setting I could find.. Where is it exactly? 2) Thanks! ;)

it's an advance settings in activity setting, so it's hide. You must enable "show all settings ", and find "'Alternative Course Name"

In Moodle 2.7 you will find this if you 1) open the Others Options area, then 2) click the Show more... link at the bottom of the section. This will expand to show other hidden settings.

Alternative Course name will then show up as the first setting in the section.

Oi, Carlos.

Thanks for your module. It is incredible!

I'm running 2.2.0 (2014070500)

Even though it is working on my 2.7.1 installation, I get the following error messages:

The condition_info class is deprecated; change to \core_availability\info_module

line 125 of \lib\conditionlib.php: call to debugging()
line 1639 of \mod\simplecertificate\locallib.php: call to condition_info->__construct()
line 1698 of \mod\simplecertificate\locallib.php: call to simplecertificate->can_issue()
line 94 of \mod\simplecertificate\view.php: call to simplecertificate->view_default()

condition_info*::is_available() is deprecated, replace with new \core_availability\info_module($cm)->is_available()

line 482 of \lib\conditionlib.php: call to debugging()
line 1640 of \mod\simplecertificate\locallib.php: call to condition_info_base->is_available()
line 1698 of \mod\simplecertificate\locallib.php: call to simplecertificate->can_issue()
line 94 of \mod\simplecertificate\view.php: call to simplecertificate->view_default()

add_to_log() has been deprecated, please rewrite your code to the new events API

line 48 of \lib\deprecatedlib.php: call to debugging()
line 1715 of \mod\simplecertificate\locallib.php: call to add_to_log()
line 94 of \mod\simplecertificate\view.php: call to simplecertificate->view_default()

Any chance you can help me fix this?

Obrigado!

Luis

Hello, thanks for your very useful module.

I have a simple certficate template I made some time ago, it prints well.

Now I need an other one. I copied the content from the prevoius module, changing the course name. The text block is printed some cm at right.

In module setting I changed the x-position from 50 to 0, but it gived no result. I tried to write 0 instead of 50 in setting.php, with no result.

What can I do?

Moodle 2.7.1 build 20140807 simple certificate 2014070500

Thanks for help.
Luciano

Hello,

I don't understand where you change this settings, in plugin settings (in admins pages) or in activity settings (inside a course).
If you change in admins pages this is expected, since the admins pages only set the default values and don't change any existing certificate activity, otherwise, may be a bug.

The new version (2.2.0) has a functionality to only issue a new certificate if:

the user hasn't issued it yet (of course)
There is a change in ACTIVITY SETTINGS

If there is no changes, and user has issued previously the plugin only send a copy.

With your help I solved, thanks. I suggest not to "hide" the activity position settings in next version (put them at the end, if you prefer!)

Luciano

Hi Carlos! Hope everything is fine.

We are users of the Certificate, everything works fine (Moodle 2.6.1, Certificate 2.2.0), all fields work except for the Profile_fields.

We have the following custom profile field:

Fullname: matricula

shortname: matricula

type: text

On the certificate, all fields work fine, but when we try {PROFILE_matricula} or {PROFILE_FIELD_matricula}, none of them work. We get a blank space where the field should be filled (as if the module did not understand the syntax and simply ignored the field). All other fields, logos, etc display just fine.

Are we doing something wrong?

Can you help us?

Thanks a lot!

try
{PROFILE_MATRICULA}

and user must fill this profile field

you don't put , in shortname, something like matrícula, i don't know about words with accentuation in shorname

Thanks, Carlos, that did it.

The field matricula did not had any accentuation (it was "matricula", not "matrícula"). The field name is still lowercase, but oddly enough, the certificate could only read the field when we changed on the certificate, as you suggested, to {PROFILE_MATRICULA}. Otherwise, it worked flawlessly. Thanks for your always prompt and helpful support!

ok, puting in bugtrack

Hello.

I recently updated to Moodle 2.6.4+ from 2.6.3 and now when I edit a simple cert and then try to generate a test cert I get the following error below but when I DO NOT edit and try to generate a test file it works?

Can not create file "28458/mod_simplecertificate/issues/0/ADHD_amp;_Trauma-ADHD_amp;_Trauma_CE_Certificate_of_Completion_0.pdf"

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

-Aaron

Moodle don't have a good file name string format, to clean strings that will be use as filename

there is something in the file name ( amp; ),

i will try do change the way i get the file name to avoid this problem

Thanks!

Actually, I am not sure if has to do with the (amp;) as I get this problem with courses that don't include it in the title.

See:

Can not create file "28462/mod_simplecertificate/issues/0/Adolescent_Grief-Adolescent_Grief_CE_Certificate_of_Completion_0.pdf"

Thanks for any and all help!

Best,

Aaron

It's could be a file permission problem, to create a new file

Do you know what directory might not have the right file permission for this error to occur? Thanks.

moodle's data root directory and sub directories

Hi, Carlos!

I believe I've run into a bug. Here's how to reproduce the issue:

1. Create a course with a name like TESTE_CERTIFICADO

2. Create a certificate in this course and use placeholder {COURSENAME}, which will correctly display "TESTE_CERTIFICADO" on the certificate.

3. Create a course named "CURSO PRODUCAO"

4. On the "CURSO PRODUCAO", import from the course "TESTE_CERTIFICADO" only the certificate, but don't change anything on the certificate

5. Now ask to generate a certificate. The {COURSENAME} will display "TESTE_CERTIFICADO" instead of "CURSO PRODUCAO". That is, the placeholder "remembers" the course from which it was imported. This can also be repeated on a third course if you import the certificate from CURSO PRODUCAO.

Moodle v.2.6.1, Certificate 2.2.0

Help?

Yes it is a bug, and was reported here recently , and with a solution

See:

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=222296#p1152204

Hi Carlos,

Firstly, thanks for developing and maintaining a very useful and easy to use plugin

I think I've found a similar issue. I'm working in both Moodle 3.1 (legacy) & 3.3 (current).

Create simplecertificate instance for a course named "Course A";
Students complete the course and receive certificates for "Course A";
Later the course name is changed to "Course B";
Previously issued certificates still print "Course A," not "Course B";

This doesn't seem to be a major problem until we try to get the course ID, which is the only reliable reference to the course, by searching for the course name in the mdl_course table. DB records in the mdl_simplecertificate_issues table still show the course name at the time they were recorded rather than the current name. In other words, it's not possible to get any information from the course because the identifier that mdl_simplecertificate_issues uses has changed.

Would it be a good idea to also record the course ID for each certificate issued?

I will try to explain

mdl_simplecertificate_issues don't make any reference to course id, it's make reference to Simple certificate activity which is in the table mdl_simplicertificate, this table have a ID reference to the course, so to get the course i will use this query

select c.fullname, sc.name from mdl_simplecertificate_issues inner join mdl_simplecertificate on mdl_simplecertificate_issues.certificateid = mdl_simplecertificate.id inner join mdl_course on mdl_course.id=mdl_simplecertificate.course where mdl_simplecertificate_issues.id = ......

the coursename in mdl_simplecertificate_issues overrides the real course name (if you use alternate course name option)

I am having real trouble trying to modify the module to suit my needs. I am focused on the verification page. We are a non-profit agency that provides certified training and then we find people quit shortly after the certification process and they get their certificates. We recently changed our hiring practices so that we can help alleviate some of the abuse to the system. We need to be able to revoke the certificate and then have that shown on the verification page when a potential new employer performs the certificate validation on our site. The problem I am having is (1) I am unable to revoke a certificate, (2) if I delete the certificate from our database, we get a generic invalid certificate error, and (3) I cannot find out how to edit the verbiage on the error page to reflect that the certificate number is invalid or has been revoked.

Any help is appreciated.

In this version there is no such thing, like Revoke a certificate, could be a new feature to future versions (https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/issues/104)

You may do that via database, not removing certificate but changing certificate code to -1, and change error message when code is invalid (invalidcode)

Ya I know about changing the certificate code to -1 to make it invalid. I have not had any luck chasing down the file where I can change the error message (invalidcode)

do not need change any file, use moodle language customization tool
https://docs.moodle.org/27/en/Language_customization

Hello Carlos,

Am wondering if you already tested - or anyone else - how this pluging works on Moodle 2.8.x version or maybe you already know when a new version will be released?

Thank you

Gemma

I don't test yet, and i don't know when will be released,

i don't have much time to spend on this plugin

Hello Carlos, boy first would like to thank for the great contribution. This plugin is really very good.

I would like to help, if possible of course. In its plugin are reserved words {DATE} and {TIMESTART} am using both the certificate from the body text to say the period of the course, but I needed a third date with the day that you generated the certificate, so I would to know which file I can edit to insert a PHP code that will generate that date or else where to create more a reserved word.

Sorry for translation...

See https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/issues/113, if have any comments will be great

Hi Carlos, The Simple Certificate is so configurable from the front-end, and I'm enjoying exploring it's functionality. I am trying to determine whether this or the other Certificate module is better for my clients (educators in a government department).

I have a question though and it centres around the following requirement: we need to give our Educators the option when creating their certificates with the course start date. That is, the date that is populated to the Enrolment methods table when a user creates an Enrolment method instance and enables course a Start Date.

For us, it would be neat to have the option to pull the custom name of the enrolment method too.

So like user profile, subfields from enrolment methods table.

Is this possible now with the exiting version? If not, is it a reasonable development suggestion?

(Ps thank you again for this plugin, what you guys - mark et al - do in this space is exceptionally clever & extremely useful! )

Hi Ellen,

The main goals of this plugin is:

don't need know php the create a custom certificate;
don't need to upload files to the moodle folders to make a custom certificate works;
it's fully compatible with moodle's backup system.

In this version don't have course start date (creation date?) textmark, but i think it's easy to get that from code, and this verison don't have enrollments name too.

It's possible to do it? , yes it is.

Your question is very similar to Weber's question (https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=222296#p1187180), and i don't answered it here, because he made the same question on Portuguese forum (since both speak Portuguese). I translate my answer here:

---

There is a method which get the certificate texts and replace the texts marks to the right value, this method is get_certificate_text (line 1310) in locallib.php file.

In this method have a temp object called $a, to create a new text mark you must do:

$a->[TEXTMARK NAME], for example:

$a->coursetime='19 to 20 September';

and put in the certificate texts the text mark {COURSETIME}

Don't change anything after line 1423. It's where the magic happens :D

---

I create a issue request about the dates, any ideas on it will be great:

https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/issues/113

Hi Carlos, Many thanks for your hard work on this great plugin.

I recently upgraded the Simple Certificate plugin in my site (I'm running Moodle 2.6) and at the end of the upgrade, a message came up that said something like " moving files" . From then on, the issued pdf certificates all state "File Not Found".

I have checked that they are in the simplecertificate-issues table, but I am not sure where the pdf files are kept, so I can check these.

I hope this makes sense.

Cheers

Paul

It's in user's private folders

I have found that if the simple certificate settings are set as ISSUE OPTION: 'download another way' and then a teacher goes to the BULK OPERATIONS tab and tries to <DOWNLOAD AS ONE PDF> the certificate pdf files are not saved. The work around is to download as a zip file instead.

Is there a simple way of removing the option to 'Download as a pdf' from the dropdown menu to avoid using this option?

Thanks Carlos - this is a great extension.

"Download all certificates in a PDF file " option does not create or save certificates, a bug... can be.

This option exists for the course that print and send all certificates for students. Print one by one, in large courses , will be a nightmare .

I will not remove this option.

Hi Carlos,

Many thanks for your prompt response - I have found the simple certificate plugin a life saver, and I wouldn't want you to change it.

I just wanted to stop a client from using the 'download as pdf' choice in the drop down menu, and thought it might be possible for me to hack the code so that it doesn't appear in the drop down menu?(possibly by commenting out that line in the code?)

See at:
https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/blob/master/locallib.php#L2078

New version 2.2.1 Release candidate is available, in github site, only for moodle v2.8
https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/tree/MOODLE_28_RC
please download and test it, and report any bugs

Fix issues:
https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/milestones/2.2.1

New version 2.2.1 Release candidate is available v2.7 and v2.6

Moodle 2.7:
https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/tree/MOODLE_27_RC

Moodle 2.6:
https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/tree/MOODLE_26_RC

plz download and test it

Fix issues:
https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/issues?q=milestone%3A2.2.1+is%3Aclosed

Hello Carlos, first I will congratulate you for the awsome plugin.

Second (probably is a newbie question), may I choose the students that I wanna let to print the certificate?

Thanks for help and sorry for bother.

Hello Flavio,

Moodle has this, for all activities

https://docs.moodle.org/27/en/Conditional_activities_settings

Flavio, this plugin has a Portuguese forum, and i know this forum has more posts, has more people, but we are both brazilians, we can write in ours native language in Portuguese forum.

Here is the link:
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=230459

Hello All

In 28/01/2015 i' ll release a new version of this plugin, with moodle 2.8 support (without warnings)

If anyone found a bug, please report it.

Tchau!

New version released for moodle 2.8, 2.7 and 2.6
end of support to moodle 2.5 and before

for moodle2.8:
https://moodle.org/plugins/download.php/7871/mod_simplecertificate_moodle28_2015013028.zip

for moodle2.7
https://moodle.org/plugins/download.php/7870/mod_simplecertificate_moodle27_2015013027.zip

for moodle2.6
https://moodle.org/plugins/download.php/7869/mod_simplecertificate_moodle26_2015013026.zip

A special thanks to Safe2Care Training, for the support (via PayPal donations) , this makes me to continue this work.

thanks again.

Simple Certificate Bulk Operations No Display

we've been using Simple Certificate module in Moodle since July 2014, the number of enrolled in one of our course is now 2,000+ , since yesterday we encounter a problem with regards to Bulk Operations tab.. the student list can't be displayed.. while I try on other courses with less enrolled students it still works.. is there a max limit for simplecertificate to issue certs? The image below is the only displayed once I click on the bulk operations.. kindly help me with this.. thanks in advance..

this problem was solved ?
it's a php memory limit settings

Hello.

We are in final testing of our Moodle site using 2.8.3 (Build 20150202) and Essential Theme version 2014122400 (with plans to update this theme this week). We are using Simple Certificate version 2015013028 2.2.1.

Our problem: When attempting to get the certificate to print correctly with the 'Centered' option, the verbiage is slightly off centered to the right of the certificate. An example is attached.

For clarification, on the 'design' screen, everything appears centered. The problem comes when the adobe version of the certificate comes up. (We are using Adobe Reader XI.

What might we need to do to fix this odd formating?

Thank you.

Robert Latz

https://moodle.org/pluginfile.php/154/mod_forum/post/1208200/Sample%20Certificate%20BB%20Pathogen.pdf

I always recommend to use tables to fix
alignment problems

An 3 cols tables, putting the text in de middle column and try to adjust the left/right column

Hi thanks for the great plugin.

I noticed that wmsendfile.php expects the parameter sessionkey to be appended to the url along with the certificate id.

Sending session keys via the url does not seem to me to be a good idea, especially because apparently it is simply obtained with the regular moodle function session_key().

Any particular reason for doing that?

Why not simply extracts it directly from wmsendfile.php itself?

wmsendfile.php -> Stamp a Watermark and Send file

if you are not the owner of certificate or not a course admin, the certificate will be stamped with "COPY " watermark, for example.

the sk has the same idea when you remove a course in moodle. Moodle ask for confirmation (moodle adds a sk variable to confirm the action), it's only to have sure it's not an accidental call to wmsendfile.php with a valid id.

Yup but I believe the same condition (having a valid session id) would be achieved like this:

require_once (dirname(dirname(dirname(__FILE__))) . '/config.php');
$id = required_param('id', PARAM_INTEGER);
$sk = sesskey();

if (confirm_sesskey($sk)) {

if (!$issuedcert = $DB->get_record("simplecertificate_issues", array('id' => $id))) {

print_error(get_string('issuedcertificatenotfound', 'simplecertificate'));

}

watermark_and_sent($issuedcert);

} else {

print_error('invalidsesskey');

}

thus allowing to easily build a link for example in configurable_reports plugin.
It also would protect from cached or saved urls I think.
But surely you know better how this plugin works ;)

Hello Carlos,

Thank you for your plugin. It's working great!

I wanted to ask you if there is a way to make a couple of additions to it.

1) The possibilty to delete certificates manually so they can be re-issued. Or... the capability to edit name. This is because some users don't realise that their name when they register is going to be printed in the certificate so sometimes they enter everything in lower case. I can edit their names in the system, but the certificate doesn't change when they click on it again.

2) Maybe also it would be useful to add a filter at the top "name / surname" (same as in reports/Course completion) so we can find users easily, instead of having to browse pages.

Thank you for your feedback.

Hi, thanks for improvements suggestion

1-The manual removing is planned to next version

2-You can add an completion rule in certificate to users must verify his name and surname

3- CRTL+F in browser do the job :D

Thanks for your reply Carlos.

1. Great news

2. I didn't think of that. I'll give it a go

3. ... but we have 132 pages!

Screenshot

ola Carlos, instalei o seu plugin mas só aparece a imagem de fundo e o texto do campo "Texto do certificado".

O nome do aluno, curso, data de conclusão não aparecem.

Meu moodle é 2.6.1, como faço para funcionar?

Fórum errado, esse é em inglês

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=230459

Manual:

http://docs.moodle.org/24/en/Simple_certificate_module

Hello Everybody

Only a suggestion. As administrator using Moodle with young and not young tearchers, it would be good if the system could give them a certificate similar to students, when they create a set of activities for students, so we can motivate the learning process in some way, according to the educative model. So, if the portfolio has reading, writing, quiz, wiki, forum and other, we are stimulating and recognizing teachers approach.

Greetings.

Hi,

I've a problem with Bulk Operations, it is not filtering students who achieved the requirements for issuing the certificate.

Can you help me?

Hello Carlos,

Is it possible to make the exported PDF "PDF/A" compliant? As I read tcpdf supports this option.

Here is one example: http://www.tcpdf.org/examples/example_065.phps

i thinks it could be, but

you can tell what's the advantage (or disadvantage) of that? , difference between pdf/a to common pdf ?

In short...PDF/A ensures reliable access to PDF documents, making PDF ideal for long-term archiving. In many companies it is a requirement.

Here is the info from PDF Association and Wikipedia:

http://www.pdfa.org/publication/pdfa-flyer/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A

Thanks for the explanation, there is some restrictions that must be tested.
if there is any issues i will make this a default, if any, it can be an option !

The main tests are:

Open type fonts supports, for languages with special chars (Russian, Japanese ...)
Transparency, could be an issue (i think it's not)
Digital signature, it's planned to be support this in 2.3 version

I will put this in git hub as an improvement.

https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/issues/129

Hi Carlos,

In my case, my teachers need to upload learner's certificates to an internal system, Is it possible to have both the student AND the teacher emailed the certificate when the student finishes a course?

I know that the teacher can log into moodle to find the certificate, but it would be great if they could have the certificate delivered to their inbox...

Thanks,

Peter.

it's could be done, but will send to all teacher
it will be good if people votes for this kind of improvements

https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/issues/130

Hi Carlos,

It appears that Lachlan-00 has proposed some code for sending PDFs to teachers (thanks Lachlan!) in https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/pull/133 , will this code be rolled into the plugin?

Not yet

Hi Carlos,

I have just upgraded to moodle 2.9.1 and upgraded simplecertificate also.

I can edit certificate settings, but when going into the certificate module (ie. ....../mod/simplecertificate/view.php?id=XX), I am redirected to the moodle home page (not even just the course where the initial request originated).

Any thoughts on this please?

Thanks,

Andrew

Turn on the DEBUG mode, to find more errors messages

Re-issue certificate question,

I have an existing Simple Certificate that has been working fine since it was setup at the beginning of the year.

Our managers have instructed all staff to re-do the assessments and present the updated certificate with a new date.

Is it possible to re-issue certificates with an updated date?

I have located the "Keep issued certificates for: 60 months" default site Admin setting.

if I reduce this time to 1 month... most issued certificates will be automatically deleted.
- can the user then "get certificate" again with a new date?
- OR are they prevented from getting it again?

I don't know your version,
but, as discussed here before, you can force a reissue by just editing and change something in the activity, example, put a white space in certificate text, so when the user click in the certificate it will be reissued

Thanks Carlos.

My version = 2015061728 2.2.2

Moodle = 2.8.7

I apologise for asking the same question... I did look but only located 2 posts when search on re-issue.

I will add the space as you suggested... very easy.

For my understanding... if the certificate exceeds the time kept in the settings ... can the user still get it by re clicking?

Thanks for your assistance.

Cheers

Mark

This is a good question, this time it's only for certificate where course don't exists any more, it's keeped because of certificate verification.

To be more specific, this only be applied for issued certificate which have timedeleted column different than null, in simplecertificate_issues table. The others certificate will be unchanged.

Hello Carlos,

Thanks for developing this plug-in. It has really simplified the certificate process.

I am wondering if it is possible now to reduce the size of the QR code. I've looked all over for the setting without any success.

Thanks

There is some posts here explaining how to do this

My bad, it is in Portuguese forum

Translation:
Carlos, i have change the code in locallib.php files, line 1074 (changes values in bold)

f->write2DBarcode($codeurl->out(false), 'QRCODE,M', $this->get_instance()->codex, $this->get_instance()->codey, 40, 40, //(both was 50 )

$style, 'N');

$pdf->SetXY($this->get_instance()->codex, $this->get_instance()->codey + 39); // (was + 49)

$pdf->SetFillColor(255, 255, 255);

$pdf->Cell(40, 0, $code, 'LRB', 0, 'C', true, '', 2);

This is reduce the QRCode size, now is perfect.
Congrats about your code style, clean, easy to understand

Tip for the others with same issue

Original Post at:

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=230459#p1239480

Oi Carlos, alterei o codigo no arquivo locallib.php nas seguntes linhas iniciando na linha 1074 (em negrito os valores alterados):

$pdf->write2DBarcode($codeurl->out(false), 'QRCODE,M', $this->get_instance()->codex, $this->get_instance()->codey, 40, 40, //(era 50 ambos)

$style, 'N');

$pdf->SetXY($this->get_instance()->codex, $this->get_instance()->codey + 39); // (era + 49)

$pdf->SetFillColor(255, 255, 255);

$pdf->Cell(40, 0, $code, 'LRB', 0, 'C', true, '', 2);

Com isso diminui o codigo e ficou excelente o tamanho! Parabens pois o seu codigo esta limpo e fácil de entender

Fica a dica para os demais!

Thanks for the update in english. My Portuguese is non-existent.

I will give it a try. Thanks again.

Chris

That worked! I was able to changed the qr code so that the overall box was about 3 centimeters square.

I was also able to remove the numeric display of the qr code that appeared underneath

My settings are here Beginning on line 1074 of "locallib.php"

     $pdf->write2DBarcode($codeurl->out(false), 'QRCODE,M', $this->get_instance()->codex, $this->get_instance()->codey, 30, 30,
                            $style, 'N');
                            /* changed values from 50 to 30 for sizing*/
        $pdf->SetXY($this->get_instance()->codex, $this->get_instance()->codey + 29); /* changed values from 49 to 29 for sizing*/
        $pdf->SetFillColor(255, 255, 255);
        //$pdf->Cell(30, 0, $code, 'LRB', 0, 'C', false, '', 2);
        /* Commented out above line to remove the numeric value of the qr code */
    }

don't forget to test if QR code could still be recognized, from a cell phone
for example

Hi Carlos,

Thanks again for the plugin - I've been using it for about 2 years now and it's worked like a charm. I have a new course now which is slightly different in that I've compiled 10 courses into one, and each existing course is now one of 10 topics. The overall course is a subscription area where my users can get access to all the courses we offer - the problem I now have though is that the overall course will only complete once all of the 10 topics are completed. This therefore means that my users have to complete all 10 courses before they can get their certificate for any of them, and they all come in at once.

Is there any way that this could be modified so that it could pick up on the completion of a specific activity, in the same way as course completion works (i.e., select a specific, or multiple Scorm activities to be complete and then the certificate becomes available), or in the way that badges do?

Thank you for your help!

Hugh.

Moodle have 2 API to help you in this task, Activity completion API and conditional activity API, now called Availability API

This 2 API are supported by this plugin, there is no need to change anything, you must turn it on, site wide and in the course configuration to used it

Hi Carlos,

I'm not 100% sure that I follow. I'm on Moodle 2.6.2 and I can see that the Availability API starts in V2.7, so it's possible that I just can't see the options in my version of Moodle?

But please consider my situation:

I have once course, which has 10 topics. In each topic I have 1 scorm activities. So that's 10 scorm activities in the course. I want to include 10 certificates, one for each scorm activity, and have each certificate only become available once it's corresponding scorm activity is complete.

Is that possible? As far as I can see (at least in v2.6.2) if I put in 10 certificates I can only configure the course completion to be for all 10 courses, and therefore all 10 certificates will only become active once all 10 scorm activities are complete.

I'd be very grateful if you could please advise!

Hugh.

Without Availability API it's not possible, Only if you change the code .

Hello Carlos,

Ok thank you - so essentially I can do this if I upgrade?!

Hugh.

Hi Carlos,

I'm having trouble with the [ bulk operations ] tab.
I want to download certificates for the people who have met the appropriate conditions for the certificate.

The problem is that when I select "Users that met the activity conditions" I expected that the page would auto-refresh and only show me the users that met the activity condition. But it doesn't - it continues to show me everyone who has enrolled in the course.

So then I thought that maybe if I choose "download certificates in a one pdf file" and click [send] that it would only include the certificates for the students that met the criteria. But it doesn't it downloads certificates for everyone.

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

Perhaps I'm not understanding what is meant by "Users that met the activity conditions"? It's ambiguous because it could refer to the conditions in:
1) "Restrict Access" This is what I would like it to mean because I can have a SCORM activity or quiz as the first activity in the course and then the second (and last) activity is the Certificate but students can't access that activity until they have met certain criteria such as scoring over 80% in the quiz.

2) "Activity Completion" for the certificate activity. This isn't as useful because I'd have to either get the student to manually mark it as complete or I'd have to get them to view the certificate so that the activity gets marked as complete.

Which of these two does "Users that met the activity conditions" refer to?

In any case, I've tested courses with both these conditions and neither one got the bulk actions to work properly.

When I go to > Course administration > Reports > Activity Completion
I can see that the quiz activity is marked as complete and the certificate activity is marked as complete.

I'm using moodle 2.8.2 and simple certificate 2.2.1

Thanks in advance for your help.

If you'd like to log into our moodle and check it out for yourself, let me know and I'll give you access.

Man thanks in advance.

regards

Lau

It's refers to the both conditions, Restrict Access and Activity Completion, try to turn on the debug mode , and see if theres any error

Hi Carlos,

I've set > site administration > Development > Debugging
Debug messages = DEVELOPER

Display debug message = ticked (because I don't have access to the php_error_logs)
And I've cleared the cache

But I still don't get any error messages showing up on any screen on any page (so I don't know if the logging is working properly).

Anyway, do you provide a service where I can pay you to have a look at this problem for me?

regards

Lau

I have similar problem...

In "Bulk operations" I miss an option to show only users with issued certificates, which I think should actually be the "All users" option. Current "All users" option just shows a list with all users, also the ones without issued certificates (Is there any reason to show a list like this?).

(One useful option could also be to show a list of users with certificates that meet certain grades (or a range of grades)).

Another important thing is that it is impossible to show (or choose) all users (on one page). So it is impossible to send all certificates at once. Or I missed something?

I would be very grateful if you look at this issues as soon as possible.

EDIT: I now realized that the chosen bulk operation actually also process all the certificates at once (zips all available certificates).

Hi.

The same problem here with Moodle 3.1

I have enabled Conditional_activities and Activity_completion.

In "bulk operations", when I select "Users that met the activity conditions" I expected to see only the users that met the activity condition, but it shows me everyone who has enrolled in the course. I don't know why.

I have enabled "DEBUG MODE" and there is no error.

Can you, please, explain me how to solve this error?

Thank you.

I will fix that in the next version

A user reported an error when clicking on the Simple Certificate link in the Activities Block. That link goes to mod/simplecertificate/index.php. The error is "Error reading from database Debug: Table 'moodleqaay15.mdl_certificate' doesn't exist". Here is the stack trace (Moodle 2.8.9):

* line 443 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: dml_read_exception thrown
* line 1080 of /lib/dml/mysqli_native_moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->query_end()
* line 1480 of /lib/datalib.php: call to mysqli_native_moodle_database->get_records_sql()
* line 1530 of /lib/datalib.php: call to get_all_instances_in_courses()\n
* line 44 of /mod/simplecertificate/index.php: call to get_all_instances_in_course()

I took a look at mod/simplecertificate/index.php and found a lot of dependencies on the original Certificate module (from which Simple Certificate started). Does Simple Certificate require that Certificate be installed to work correctly? I wouldn't expect that to be the case, but I am mystified as to why there are no reports of this issue up to now. I looked in the git repository and this page appears to have always been broken.

no, not needed, it's a bug, thanks for reporting

New plugin version 2.2.3 for moodle 3.0, 2.9 and 2.8

https://moodle.org/plugins/view/mod_simplecertificate

Fix some bugs:

#136 Old reference to certificate plugin in index.php
#101 Alternative course name has the the course name, and brakes import certificates

Hello

I am receiving the following error message when I log in as a Student to test the certificate:

Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: condition_info,condition_info_section,condition_info_base classes can not be used any more, please use respective classes from \core_availability namespace

When I am logged in as admin the certificate works and is printed as expected.

I am using Moodle 2.9 and plug-in version 2.2.2

I am not able to get in and work in the coding so am hoping it is something easy to fix!

Any help appreciated

Jo

I have test it with completion and access restriction enable and get no errors
Try to upgrade you pluging, and if you still getting error try to turn on the debug mode

And there is no reference do "condition_info" or other condition classes in the code (for moodle 2.9 or above)

Hi Carlos

Thank you for your reply.

I have upgraded to the latest version and it works perfectly - thank you!

Best wishes

Jo

Oi,

Instalei o certificado simples no moodle 3.0. Instação perfeita.

Configuração, sem dúvida, mas ao gerar o certificado eu recebo a mensagem de ERROR 500.

As permissões e acessos estão normais com o Moodle.

Existe alguma forma de corrigir este erro?

Obrigado

Ricardo

HI, this is the English forum, question in Portuguese please uses the Portuguese forum

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=230459

Try to turn on the debug mode for more details about this error

Hi,

I set the Debug as https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Debugging but still with the same error and will not appear no message other than ERROR 500 - INTERNAL SERVER ERROR

After setting the single certificate by filling only required fields, I put the simplest variables as:

    {USERNAME}
    {COURSENAME}
    {GRADE}
    {DATE}

and asked to save and display.

Then the error appears on this link
... mod / simplecertificate / view.php? id = 258

Hi Carlos,

Thanks for the great plugin.

I create a certificate for my course and add certificate image. Each time I create a certificate, I need to upload the certificate image. Can someone guide me to just upload the image file once, then can be use for all courses?

A new block plugin avaliabe for download to everyone which uses simple certificate plugin

The simple certificate block, see more in

https://moodle.org/plugins/block_simple_certificate

Hi Carlos,

Thanks for the great plugin.

I create a certificate for my course and add certificate image. Each time I create a certificate, I need to upload the certificate image. Can someone guide me to just upload the image file once, then can be use for all courses?

Hello Muhd,

simple way is make a course with just the certificate and fill it with all the standards you want (image, text placing etc).

Then just use the import function in the course you want to certificate and select the course with the standard certificate. All the settings like image, will be imported.

Gem

Is there any way to pull data from a previous activity into the certificate?

Can a user fill in information in a Questionnaire and then have those responses appear on the certificate?

Thank you!

No, it's not possible without a modification

Currently I see that if the Issue option is sent to "Email", there is no stored certificates under "Issued Certificates". Is this possible to fix?

Thank you!

I will check it

https://github.com/bozoh/moodle-mod_simplecertificate/issues/139

I hate to be the bare of bad news but this module is not working at all with moodle 3.0 at my end.

When logged in as a student or administrator, It make no difference.

Here is the error message I get:

'The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.'

The module has been installed via moodle plugin directory just as I would do any other.

If it helps for you to know - the certificate module has the same problem on my moodle.

I hate to be the bare of bad news, but i think the problem is in your server configuration.

Certificate Plugins is very very popular plugin, more then my plugin (simplecertificate) and if is not working at all in 3.0 many many people will post in the certificate plugin forum (https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=7163)

Try to enable DEBUG, and search for errors in your http servers logs , but many people here related a file permission problem which cause this kind of error, search for old post in this forum

Thanks for replying so quickly.

I am not a developer so please be patient with me.

Do I check for server problems with my host or is there a place inside moodle that I should be referring to???

I tried to change folder permissions in my FTP but it won't allow me to alter the current number which is "7". So is this done elsewhere too or is it with my host?

Ok, but before you trying to solve your problem you must find which problem is it, and without any DEBUG messenger or http server logs will be impossible

This Plugin doesn't need any special permission to work, but some http server do not allow some contents without the right permission

For example: (from http server log)

[Fri Dec 11 10:27:05 2015] [error] [client 177.97.025.82] SoftException 
in Application.cpp:313: File 
"/.../.../public_html/cursos/mod/simplecertificate/view.php" is 
writeable by group,

To fix that some people change the folder permission to 755 rwxr-xr-x (in linux).
and file permission to 644 rw-r--r--

But without any log or debug message i don't know if it's the same problem.

Thanks for your time in replying.

I managed to fix the issue.

The cause was the permissions on my FTP folders. I had to get my host to fix it for me due to restricted access but it fixed the issue.

Thanks again!

Hello to all
I would need to create a tag that I can print the pdf of the certificate, every time I click on issuing certificate, the date of issue of the certificate, how can I do?

{DATE} Textmark will do that
Use plugins helps to see all the textmarks

The tag {DATE} print in pdf's date in which you download, if you download today will put you 13 If you download tomorrow will put the 14.

So if I want to download in a month again, I will put on January 13 but the date of that day.
I wish that the date was always the fixed release.

It's possible?

This is not true, certificate file is not reissued every time you click in download button,
It's only re-issue when:

For admin / teachers users, because it's not saved at all
or if certificate has changes

Beside that you can change what {DATE} textmark will display, and the format of the date too.
it's is in hiddens, advanced, more, options...

it's certdate and certdatefmt

Hello,

i get 403 error with this module when upgrading moodle,

any ideas?

Only with this error it's impossible to have a clue

before ask, search in forum post if have a solution, there is many answer for 403 error.
Turn on moodle debug mode,
Verify httpd logs

The most common is a file or folder permission, the server only works if file and folders have the right permission... (and i don't know what it is)

Hi Carlos,

What did you mean by this statement

"it's is in hiddens, advanced, more, options...

it's certdate and certdatefmt"

How can I get to these options to change the date of previously issued certificates?

Those options it's not showed b default, it's hidden, and since i not use moodle in english a don't remember, for sure, the name of this options, but to show Certdate and certdatefmt (this is the options name, just press CRTL+F in your browser to find it) you must click in advanced/hiddens/more options.

I would just like the date of issue of the certificate and not the current date.

While the tag {DATE} only print the current date

Hello and thanks for a great module.

I have trouble making it work using the TinyMCE HTML editor. When I use this editor the text I type does not sow in the certificate issued.

My text is this:

Βεβαίωση Περαίωσης

{DATE} 

Βεβαιώνεται ότι ο/η {USERNAME}, ολοκλήρωσε επιτυχώς το Σεμινάριο για την επανεκπαίδευση και επαναπιστοποίηση των (αντ)ασφαλιστικών διαμεσολαβητών του Τομέα Γ, διάρκειας 5 ωρών, με τίτλο:

"{COURSENAME}"

Fairly simple I believe (use utf if you wanna use it).

I do not use the Atto Text editor, I do not like it, neither do my users, so TinyMCE HTML editor is the only way I can go.

I do not know if you have encountered this before or if you can reproduce this erro but it is so frustrating.

Any advice?

Thank you in advance.

Hello,

I tried your text in Moodle 2.9 + tinymce editor and I had no issue with displaying the text on the certificate itself.

Maybe it has to do with the special character use, see https://docs.moodle.org/24/en/Simple_certificate_module#Languages_with_special_character

Thanks Gemma, you are the best :D

Moode developers in order to reduce installation file size, removes many fonts of TCPPF lib dir (lib/tcpdf/fonts), and my plugin uses this lib to create the pdf files.

So if anyone wants to change the default fonts, or use languages with non Latin characters, like Greek, must download, install and put a font-family in your certificate text to work.
I Think freeserif will work, and it is already installed.

see more about in:

https://docs.moodle.org/24/en/Simple_certificate_module#Languages_with_special_character

To install new fonts:
http://www.tcpdf.org/fonts.php

TCPDF extra fonts (Official)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcpdf/files/tcpdf_fonts_6_2_12.zip/download

The new fonts must be in lib/tcpdf/fonts in your moodle

Hello,

In the previous version, I could position text to my desired location, but I can't with the newest version. Should I use any HTML or something else? If so, can you please give an example?

Thanks,

Dr. Johnson

Here's a screenshot. I need to move the certificate code towards the right.

move text towards right

Have a look here.

https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Certificate_customizing#Modifying_text_and_text_position_code_examples

Moodle in English

General plugins

New activity: Simple Certificate

New version: v2.1.1 - 2013092800, Enjoy

improvements

Here is how the course main page is set up...

Here is how each Certificate is configured with the exception of the 'Certificate Text' field which is different for each test that is associated with each Certificate.

Invitation to test the new version of the plugin

@smplcertificade

mod_simplecertificate

How to apply (only for linux)

Simple Certificate Bulk Operations No Display