Testing New and Updated Certificates

When creating a new certificate or updating an old one, they must be tested using the normal user experience. This is due to re-rendering an existing certificate or using the Template Viewer on /Pages/Dev does not catch all the issues that could be caused by custom code in the certificate.

To start go to the organizations home page. Then:

• Edit > Links

• Add > Course Home Page (use 'test' or similar)

• Click on that newly create page and go to Edit > Links

• Add > Exam From Repository

• Select the 'Acknowledgement' and click 'Add'

• Go to /Pages/Dev

• Click on Custom DNS and set up an incoming DNS so the test student can log in:

  

• Run the following commands:

AddRegistrationCompletionRule [coursePath] AllExamsComplete()
CreateCertificate [OrgPath] testCert "Testing Certificate" [TemplateFileName].cshtml
AddCertificateRule [coursePath] AllExamsComplete():testCert

• Go to that newly create course page

• Add a default offering (Manage > Registrations)

• Register a test student in the newly created course

• In a new browser or incognito sign in as that test user and complete the acknowledgement

• Note: The deferred actions must not be paused to award the certificate

  ContinueAutomaticOfferingRuleProcessing

• to verify if it has been processed use (should read 0; e.g. processed):

  GetUnprocessedDeferredActionCounts

• Go to Manage > Reports > Grades (by student) Report

• Click on the test student's certificate to verify.