Certificate Issuance

Issue course certificates after eligibility checks, credential details, preview, delivery, and revocation rules. This example brings Eligibility and Credential together so learners and course teams can find the next task without losing context.

It includes representative records such as Ava Carter · PM Foundations and Noah Williams · SQL Analytics. Use the screenshot to study the layout, then adapt its components and product states to your own design system.

Certificate Issuance

Template facts

Screen

Form

Primary action

Issue certificate

Pattern

Form

State

Default, loading, empty, error, permission, success

Design system

Configurable product UI theme

What this screen helps users do

Product and growth teams need to issue certificate while keeping eligible, issued and exceptions visible. The interface should show what changed and who should act next.

Key elements

  • Main workspace: Eligibility gives users an obvious place to start.
  • Supporting view: Credential keeps the related context close.
  • Primary action: Issue certificate stays visible when people need it.
  • First signal: Eligible shows a useful value (34).
  • Second signal: Issued gives additional context (286).
  • Sample record: Ava Carter · PM Foundations.
  • Next record: Noah Williams · SQL Analytics.

States worth designing

  • Required field missing: say what changed, protect progress, and offer a clear next step.
  • Invalid value or incompatible data: say what changed, protect progress, and offer a clear next step.
  • Draft saved: say what changed, protect progress, and offer a clear next step.
  • Submitted for review: say what changed, protect progress, and offer a clear next step.
  • No permission to submit: say what changed, protect progress, and offer a clear next step.
  • Temporary save failure: say what changed, protect progress, and offer a clear next step.

Where this screen sits in the flow

Eligibility → Credential → Issue certificate → Review outcome

Patterns used

Form, Eligibility, Credential, contextual actions, error recovery

Why these choices work

Show requirements beside fields and retain values after failed checks. Validate only the affected input and make the next step unmistakable.

Pay attention to eligibility and credential. People need to distinguish Ava Carter · PM Foundations from Noah Williams · SQL Analytics. Keep eligible visible, especially when a record changes owner or status.

Before this screen reaches handoff, verify keyboard focus, empty and permission states, and what happens after someone chooses “Issue certificate”. Make error recovery as clear as the happy path.

Related screen examples to explore next: Cohort Management, Student Progress, Gradebook.

Start from this in Figr

Design a certificate issuance screen inside our existing product. Use our current components, tokens and content language. Include Eligibility and Credential views, credible records like Ava Carter · PM Foundations, and a clear “Issue certificate” action. Use our product permissions and show loading, empty, error and success states. Keep the output editable in Figma.

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