View Certificates
Introduction
Every certificate you earn on CodeChum is kept in one place. Finish a certification course, join a competition or pass a certification exam, and the certificate waits for you under Certifications, the last link in the sidebar.
From there you can read a certificate, download the file, and publish it at a link anyone can open, so a school or an employer can check it without a CodeChum account. This page walks you through opening a certificate and sharing it.
Steps
Note: You need to be a verified teacher to open a certificate. An account that is not verified yet gets a lock reading "You need to be a verified teacher to view a certificate." with a Get verified now button that opens the verification form in a new tab.
To view and share a certificate in CodeChum, follow these instructions:
- Click Certifications at the bottom of the sidebar. The page opens on "Here are the list of certificates you got so far!" and lists what you have earned so far. With nothing earned yet it reads "You have not earned any certificates yet."
- Find the certificate you want. Type part of its name in Search, or open Sort by: and choose Newest or Oldest. The list holds six certificates at a time, with the page numbers underneath it.
- Click View Certificate on the row you want. The rows are listed under Certification Exam, and the buttons under Action. On a phone that button shrinks to just its launch icon.
- Read your certificate. It fills the left of the screen, and the Certificate Recipient card on the right carries your photo, your name and your university. Below the certificate is the line that starts "This certificate proudly verifies that", naming you, the certification and the date.
- Click Download to open the certificate file.
- Turn on I would like to share this publicly to publish the certificate at its own link. A Share button appears next to Download once the switch is on.
- Click Share to open the Share this certificate modal. Post the certificate to Facebook, X / Twitter or LinkedIn, or click the copy button beside the link. Its tooltip reads Copy to Clipboard, and turns to Copied! once the link is on your clipboard.
- Finally, open that link yourself to see what everyone else sees: your first name in the banner, the certificate, the verification line and the Certificate Recipient card. The public page carries no Download, no Share and no switch.
Note: The public link is the certificate's own address, https://app.codechum.com/certificates/ followed by its id. Anyone who opens it reads the certificate without logging in. Turn the switch back off and the link stops working, which sends any later visitor to the login screen.
How you earn a certificate
Certificates are not requested, they are earned. One way a teacher earns one is a CodeChum certification course: every topic of the course holds a coding activity, and passing the required items of every topic is what issues the certificate. To enroll in a course, read Free certification courses.
To answer a topic's activity, follow these instructions:
- Open the certification course from My classes and look at its topic cards. A topic that has not unlocked yet is greyed out behind a padlock and reads "Can be answered on:" with the date it opens, and a topic that is open counts your score as Required and Optional. Click Start, or Continue when you already began.
- Read the Things to remember modal that opens over the activity. It names the items you must get a perfect score on to pass, and the extra items you may answer for a higher rank on the certificate. Click Okay, let's start! to begin.
- Write your code, then click Run code to run it with your own input, or Check code to run the item's test cases. Open a test case to see it, click Run this test for that one test, or See what's wrong to compare your output with the expected one.
- Open the Executions tab to look back at your recent Check code runs, listed as Execution 1, Execution 2 and so on. Click Restore on a card to bring that code back into the editor: Restore Code? asks first, since it removes the code you have in that language now. View opens the execution instead, and the Restore code button in there restores it at once.
- Finally, Prev and Next flank the item counter when there is more than one item. On the last item, Finish attempt... opens the Activity Summary, where Submit all and finish and then Proceed hand the activity in. Back to certification class leaves it for now. Once you pass every topic's required items, the certificate appears under Certifications.
Note: Only your three latest Check code runs are kept, as the Executions tab says. The optional items never decide whether you pass, they only raise the rank printed on the certificate.
And that's how you view, download and share your hard-earned certificates in CodeChum! Next, let's look at what your students see on How to view certificates.