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Certifications

Your training is done. 
Is your workforce actually certified?

Completing a course isn’t the same as earning a certification. Certifications in the Knowledge Anywhere LMS are designed for organizations that need to go further. With structured learning paths, validated assessments, expiration dates, renewal workflows, and formal credential records, you can build certification programs that are clear for learners and easy for administrators to manage.

A young woman wearing an apron smiles while looking at a digital tablet. In the background, a user interface card for a "Food Safety Manager" certification shows a checklist of five completed modules with green checkmarks, including "Food Safety Fundamentals" and "Certification Examination", above a "CONTINUE TRAINING" button. A lower popup panel features a gold seal and reads, "Congratulations! You’ve received Food Safety Manager Certificate."
A user interface layout for a web application titled "Create Certification." On the left, a sequential workflow panel displays custom training steps like "Food Safety Fundamentals," "HACCP Principles," and "Allergen Management," followed by a "Final Exam" section. Graphic elements on the right illustrate associated course media cards and a customizable "Certified Food Safety Manager" certificate template.

Design the Certification program that meets your needs 

Define the training, exams, evidence, pre-work, post-work, test-out options, and completion order learners must follow to earn a certification. Create multiple paths for different learner groups, support external or classroom training, offer content in multiple languages, and use AI-assisted tools to speed up course and assessment creation.

Leverage our powerful assessment engine

Validate learner competency with configurable assessments. Set passing scores, time limits, attempt limits, navigation restrictions, accommodations, and more. Use AI-assisted assessment drafting to speed up question creation, then refine and validate the final question set before launch.

Question pooling helps protect exam integrity by giving each learner a different assessment experience while drawing from a controlled bank of validated questions. You can also use the same question pool across course assessments and final certification exams to maintain consistency throughout the program

A user interface displaying online quiz questions and exam settings. The background shows multiple-choice questions about Washington State wine regions, highlighting "INCORRECT" and "CORRECT" answer states. A foreground overlay window titled "Certification Exam" specifies an 80% passing score requirement and notes that all training steps must be completed to unlock the exam.
A user interface showcasing an administrative "Approval Queue" dashboard with pending user requests for enrollments, external training evidence, and exam results. A detailed inset shows an enrollment request from a learner named Olivia Parsons. On the right, a man with glasses sits at a desk analyzing a laptop, with a large green "APPROVE REQUEST" button prominent at the bottom.

You remain in control

Certifications automates the workflow while keeping your team in control where human review matters.

Designated administrators can approve enrollments, review external training evidence, validate exam results, and authorize additional exam attempts. Each request can be approved or denied with an optional message and a cooldown period before resubmission. Everything is managed from one centralized approval queue, giving your team clear visibility without jumping between multiple screens.

Manage content versions with confidence

Certification requirement evolve, your certification program should be able to evolve just as easily.

With built-in version management, you can update requirements, content, exams, or program rules without disrupting learners already in progress. Learners remain tied to the version they started, while new learners are assigned the latest published version — ensuring every learner has a consistent, fair, and clearly documented certification experience.

Automate the recertification lifecycle

Need to support recurring certifications? We have you covered. Configure a recertification path with its own training content, exam, pricing, and certificate. Set renewal intervals, early-start windows, and grace periods.

The system automatically tracks expiration dates, opens recertification windows, and marks certifications as lapsed when requirements are not completed. Your administrators get a cleaner process, and learners get a clear path to stay current.

Keep learners and admins informed automatically

Our robust notification system keeps learners on track and administrators informed by sending automated email reminders for key certification events, including earned certifications, upcoming expirations, pending approvals, recertification windows, and team-level certification activity.

Configure as many or as few reminders as your program requires, so the right people receive the right information at the right time.

An user interface tracking a user's completion timeline next to a laptop. At the top, a user profile for Priya Nair is marked with a green "Certified" tag. Stacked notification logs below detail her journey with timestamps: "Enrollment created", followed by "Certification Exam passed (Score: 100%)", and concluding with "Certification completed". A blue notification bell icon is visible on the far left.
A cheering woman celebrates with raised fists in front of her laptop computer. To her right, two digital credential badges are featured: a teal hexagon badge labeled "CERTIFIED IT-Security Expert" and a yellow hexagon badge labeled "CERTIFIED Information Security Practitioner," with a blue paper airplane graphic underneath.

Issue certificates and digital badges

Recognize achievement with formal, trackable certificates or digital badges. Configure separate certificate templates for initial certification and recertification. Administrators can revoke certificates when needed, require selected users to recertify, or restrict users from future certifications.

Monetize certification programs with flexible pricing

Certifications is built to support both internal programs and revenue-generating credentialing models.

Configure pricing for initial certification enrollment, additional exam attempts, and recertification enrollment. Multi-currency support allows you to set different pricing by currency, making it easier to support broader learner audiences.

You can also define a set number of free exam attempts before overage fees apply, giving learners a fair opportunity to pass while protecting the value and integrity of your certification program.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

What is a Certification?

A Certification is a structured program in the Knowledge Anywhere LMS that defines the training steps, exams, and requirements a learner must complete to earn a formal certification. It supports the full certification lifecycle — initial certification, expiration, and recertification.

Learning paths, checklists, and certifications all allow you to assign training to learners, but offer different capabilities:

  • Learning Paths allow you to assign a series of required and optional LMS learning objects to learners. If you simply need to assign a sequence of courses to a learner or group, learning paths are a straightforward way to accomplish this.
  • Checklists add the capability to assign additional activities and provide additional administration capabilities. Checklists are not restricted to LMS courses; for example, a checklist can also include entire learning paths, documents to review, forms to complete, external resources, or offline activities such as meetings or introductions. Onboarding new employees is a common use case for checklists, as new employees need to complete activities beyond training.
  • Certifications add sophisticated administration, tracking, auditing, and versioning capabilities, as well as additional options for assigning learning content. They are ideal for implementing professional certification programs or other formal credentialing.

Yes. Each Certification has a configurable completion rule — steps can be required in order, or learners can complete them in any sequence.

Each training step supports multiple completion path types: online training (courses, assessments, learning paths), test-out assessments, classroom training (including pre- and post-work), resource documents, and external training with evidence of submission. Multiple completion paths on a single step act as equivalencies — learners can satisfy the requirement through whichever path applies to them.

Yes. Certifications include version management. When you publish an updated version, learners who are already mid-certification remain pinned to the version they started. New learners enroll on the current published version.

If your Certification expires, you can configure a recertification cycle with its own training content, assessment, and certificate template. The system automatically tracks expiration dates, opens the recertification window, enforces a grace period, and marks certifications as lapsed if the learner does not recertify in time.

Yes. External training submissions and certain exam completions can require admin approval before credit is granted. Access requests (for protected paths) and attempt-limit increase requests are also routed to an admin approval queue.

Yes. Each Certification has its own notification settings. You can turn individual notification types on or off, configure the expiration reminder schedule (e.g., 90, 60, 30, and 7 days before expiration), and designate which admins receive admin-side notifications.

Certifications are available as part of the Knowledge Anywhere LMS. Contact us for details on plan availability and pricing.

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