PDF Templates / Certificates of Completion
allow you to create high quality and high resolution PDF documents for announcements, course ware and certificates. Unlike the existing PDF open/download capability, now you can place named fields in the PDF Template and the Accord will dynamically replace the named fields with DNN and LMS token values. Apply any font specifications you want. Nearly 100 different tokens are supported. You can even pull in token values from another “Referenced” Learning Events, such as a score from a quiz.
Use any PDF authoring tool, such as
Cute PDF, that supports named field input. In the example we created below there are three named fields: [Learner:FullName], [LE:FolderName] and [DateTime:Now|d MMMM yyyy].
When you create a new Learning Event select the Event Source: PDF Template option. Upload your PDF template; select the Learning Event Type and tracking if you want. That’s all.
When the Learner opens the Certificate from their My Plan, the Accord will dynamically fill in all the fields with the appropriate information.
The example Certificate Template (PDF), shown above, and the source Word doc can be downloaded from the Resource Files section at the bottom of the
Accord LMS Downloads page.