Check Certificate Progress and Access Your Certificate

Check Certificate Progress and Access Your Certificate

Some courses offer certificates. If your course includes a certificate, the Home view shows a Certificate Progress section under Course Progress where you can track your progress and access your certificate after you meet the requirements.

This article explains how to view the certificate requirements and progress, check scores for progress, view and print the certificate, access the permanent URL to the certificate, and add the certificate to LinkedIn. For further assistance, email oli-help@cmu.edu with any questions.

View Certificate Requirements

  1. From the Home view, click View All Assignments.
    OR
  2. Click Assignments in the left navigation menu.

The Assignments view lists all scored pages in the course, including scores for any assignments you have submitted.

If your course includes a certificate, the certificate requirements appear at the top of the Assignments view. Assignments required for the certificate are marked with a red asterisk (*) to the left of the assignment title.




View Certificate Progress

From the Home view, find the Certificate Progress block in the lower-left area of the page under Course Progress. If there is no Certificate Progress, then your course does not generate a certificate.

This block shows how many requirements you have achieved.


Check Scores for Certificate Progress

From the Assignments page, review the score for each required assignment and the score required for the certificate.

To check whether an assignment meets the certificate requirement, calculate the percentage earned for that assignment:

points earned ÷ total points possible × 100

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Scores are not rounded up for certificate achievement. For example, if the requirement is 70%, a score of 37/53, or 69.8%, does not meet the 70% requirement.



View and Print your Certificate

After you meet all certificate requirements, an Access My Certificate link appears under Certificate Progress on the Home view.

Click Access My Certificate to view and print your certificate. You may want to print to PDF if that is available from your browser to save a digital copy of the certificate.

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This link is available only to you and while you can access your course materials. If you are not signed in or you no longer have access to the course, the certificate link will not be available. To access a permanent URL to your certificate that you can share with others, see the next section below. For help, contact oli-help@cmu.edu.

Save and Share a Permanent Certificate URL

To save or share a verified certificate link:

  1. From the Home view, click Access My Certificate.
  2. In the certificate image, click the gray certificate number at the bottom of the certificate.
    Do not click the blue certificate number below the certificate image.
    The OLI Torus Certificate Verification page opens.
  3. Copy the URL from the browser address bar.
  4. Save and share this OLI Torus Certificate Verification URL.

Add your Certificate URL to LinkedIn

You can add your certificate to the Licenses & Certifications section of your LinkedIn profile if you have the OLI Torus Certificate Verification URL from the steps in the section above.

  1. Go to LinkedIn > Me > View Profile.
  2. Click Add section.
  3. Choose Recommended > Add licenses & certifications.
  4. Enter the certificate name.
  5. Enter the issuing organization.
    Start typing the name and choose the issuing organization from the list to show the organization’s image next to your certificate.
  6. Add the issue date.
  7. Paste the certificate ID into Credential ID.
    Copy this number from the bottom of your certificate or from the end of the Credential URL.
  8. Paste the OLI Torus Certificate Verification URL into Credential URL.
    See the steps above to access your Permanent Certificate URL.
  9. Click Save.
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Anyone viewing your LinkedIn Profile can click the Show credential link and then click the reCaptcha and Submit to view and verify your certificate.