Corporate Training on WordPress: Track Completions and Certificates

CEU tracking means knowing who finished which training, and when, and being able to prove it. A corporate LMS does the same job inside a company. This video shows how to keep that record on a WordPress site you own.

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C E U tracking is knowing who finished which training, and when, and being able to prove it. C E U stands for continuing education unit. It is the credit a professional earns for keeping their training up to date. So tracking needs three things. A record for each person. A date on every completion. And proof an outsider can check. A corporate L M S does the same job inside a company. The letters stand for learning management system. It assigns training to staff, records who completed it, and shows the proof when somebody asks. Here is where the record usually breaks. Certificates are loose PDF files, sent by email. Dates are typed into a spreadsheet by whoever remembers. And when someone hands you a certificate, there is no way to check that it is real. On a WordPress site you own, the record keeps itself. You assign the course. The person completes it. A certificate is issued at that moment, and the record is on file, with the date. Here it is on a real site. A compliance course, closed to the public. Alex was assigned to it, so he can start. He works through the lesson and marks it complete. That is recorded against his name. The owner opens the student list, and sees each person with their completion rate and when they were last active. And every certificate issued, with its date, an expiry date where one is set, and whether it is still active. Each certificate has a public page that anyone can open, without an account, to confirm it is real. A QR code on the certificate leads straight to that page. And it is digitally signed, so the signature can be verified independently. You decide what completion means. Every lesson, plus a passed quiz, with a pass mark you choose. In an exam, the plugin tracks when someone switches to another tab, and flags it for the grader. One thing to be clear about. The plugin records completions and certificates. It does not add up credit hours for you. A certificate design can print the hours, so the figure is on the document. The running total for each person is yours to keep, in your own records. The Pro version adds what a training provider needs for company clients. A space for each company, with a set number of seats. Managers who see only their own team. A progress report they can download. And SCORM packages, where a lesson cannot be marked complete until the package reports it complete. Side by side. PDF files in a folder, or certificates with a page that verifies them. Dates typed by hand, or recorded at the moment of completion. Scattered across inboxes, or one list you can filter. Take my word for it, or check it yourself. Every completion you record by hand is one you may not be able to prove on the day it matters. Learnomy is the free course plugin for WordPress. Move your training records onto your own site this week. Get Learnomy. The link is below.