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Best Practices for Digital Certificate Management in First Aid Training Programs
More and more corporate and educational institutions now invest in first aid training programs to promote safety consciousness. While the programs are curated to offer high-quality training, do you know what makes the programs extra premium? It’s sending digital certificates post-completion.
If you’re a first aid trainer or organizer looking for an alternative to offline certificate management, this article is here to guide you.
We get it. Offline certificate management is not a cakewalk, especially for first aid trainers running programs with hundreds of attendees on average.
However, with the right tools and technology, digital certificate management, from certificate creation to dispatch, can reduce costs and is more efficient.
Let's look at the challenges most trainers face with managing certificates.
Picture this: You’ve just successfully trained a bunch of 50-odd folks and want to certify them. You design a template from scratch, manually edit and send them to each participant. That’s a ton of back-and-forth manual work, often prone to avoidable errors that could ruin your reputation.
You must keep track of issued certificates to ensure they reach the right individuals and are renewed past the expiration date. Also, first aid trainers often lack a proper structure to manage and store certificates.
And without an effective, automated solution, organizing certificates in less time seems impossible.
In this digital day and age, keeping in touch with training participants offline is harder. Especially when the certification must be renewed from time to time, there’s no way to reach your students and notify them.
With the myriad design tools at users’ disposal, faking certifications is getting easier by the day. Fraudulent certificates circulating under your program’s name can hamper your brand’s reputation in the long run.
Admins and trainers are singlehandedly in charge of registering students, tracking and delivering certificates, complying with certificate issue regulations, etc.
Miscoordination between trainers and admins due to a lack of protocol and a central database can lead to heavy consequences, such as duplicate certificates, delayed delivery, data inaccuracies, and security concerns that impact your first aid training program’s credibility.
These challenges do not stop here. Depending on the program’s expansion, they can quickly scale as you onboard more trainers, participants, or administrators. So what’s the best remedy?
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As soon as you log in, you will find the Virtualbadge.io dashboard, where you can design new certificates and edit, manage, and group them.
Start by clicking on Create new certificate. Next, enter your program and certification details under the Basic Details page. Once done, click on Continue to start designing your certificate.
Now, you can either choose to create a certificate from scratch or choose from Virtualbadge.io’s templates for a quick fix. Fine-tune the design by adding various elements at your disposal.
Once satisfied with the outcome, click on Save to finish.
Your saved certificates will appear on your Virtualbadge.io dashboard.
For more in-depth help with digital certificate creation, you can refer to our free resources:
Defining access levels is key to curbing unintended misuse of certificates. Using Virtualbadge.io, admins can invite trainers to issue certificates and set appropriate access rights.
To do this, click on Account in the top right corner of your Virtualbadge.io dashboard and click on Settings, followed by Users and Roles.
You can now start adding your team or trainers. Simply click on Invite User, and in the pop-up, enter each trainer’s details and select their roles.
A verification email is auto-sent to added trainers, who are then prompted to log in to their new Virtualbadge.io accounts.
Once logged in, trainers can create new trainings or issue certificates by simply clicking on Create new Training.
Just enter the training details, such as the name, start and end dates, and add optional details, such as the name of the institution where the training takes place (university, organization, etc.), and select the certificate from the dropdown.
Each training can be set up to seamlessly send certificates to any number of participants. The trainer can also view certificate statistics, such as statuses, the number of participants who requested certificates, and the number of confirmed and sent certificates.
This way, trainers can access a well-structured, certificate management system that saves time.
Virtualbadge.io auto-generates a ready-to-use QR code for every new training. It makes it easier for your participants to request access to their certificates themselves. This QR code is available to the trainers, and they can simply display the code to the recipients once the training is completed.
Once participants scan the QR code, they are led to a form that collects personal details needed for the certification, such as name, email, and address. Alternatively, trainers can share the form as a link with the participants.
Pro tip: It’s best to educate your participants beforehand as part of the first aid program on retrieving their certificates using Virtualbadge.io.
The trainers and admins can view the participants’ submitted requests on their dashboards. They can approve/reject all in a click or verify each request one by one for better validation.
Virtualbadge.io adds an extra security feature by letting you pass certificate requests through a double clearance process where approvals are sent to both admins and trainers.
You don’t have to worry about manual entries and sending certificates to each participant. Virtualbadge.io does this on auto-pilot mode as soon as you approve certificate requests.
Access to certificates is sent in an email to every approved participant. They can now download the certificate by clicking the Get Certificate button in the email body.
LinkedIn’s Licences and Certifications section demonstrates an individual’s skills and can help boost their chances of landing suitable jobs. Not just that, this section can also add a feather to your cap and drives your training’s marketing value on social media.
And Virtualbadge.io lets your participants add verified certificates to their Linkedin profiles with a click of a button.
Now that we’ve introduced you to a whole new world of digital certificate management, let’s look at the key benefits of using such a platform.
Here are some perks of transitioning to digitized certificate management:
A digital certificate management platform can help you stay compliant while easing you out of manual certificate generation and organization. And the best part? You can save time, money, and sweat while focusing all your energy on making your first aid training successful.
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