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Best Practice for Certification of a Sequence of Courses inside a Bigger Learning Plan

  • March 19, 2026
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hailey.gebhart
Helper III

Hello!

 

We are encountering a roadblock, and I was wondering if any of you had any insight on how to move forward. We are going to be launching a learning plan for new hires, and in that learning plan, we have 3 courses that need to be taken all together for the users to get a certification. The problem is that we cannot assign the 3 courses to the certification without:

  • Only 1/3 courses needing to be completed to earn the certification
  • The users needing to take the entire learning plan to earn the certification
  • The courses are a part of a separate learning plan
    • The courses are still a part of the original learning plan, and they are simply enrolled in the two and will complete the 2nd learning plan as they complete the 1st. This has a high probability of creating confusion
    • The courses are separated, and there are two learning plans they are required to complete. This separates out the courses more and is less clean from the user experience side.
  • Some sort of very specific automation that will likely be messier to maintain than utilizing the native functionality.

This detail is a big miss, as we would like to be able to distribute certifications based on a group of course completions while not requiring a separate learning plan enrollment. Any advice or workarounds you have found would be greatly appreciated!

 

Hailey

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    lrnlab
    Hero III
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    • lrnlab
    • Hero III
    • March 20, 2026

    If I understand your use case correctly, you can use a group and an enrolment rule to assign an LP based on the completion of a course or courses in another plan but only tie the 2nd LP (yet to be assigned) to the certification, If the 2 LPs contain the same courses, either one can grant the certification but you would need to assign a single. We have done something similar using a course equivalency for a course that is only assigned based on the completion of another course so the user never really has to complete the course that actually grants the certification. 

      Davefox
      Helper III
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      • Davefox
      • Helper III
      • March 20, 2026

      ​@hailey.gebhart  Believe me when I say I feel your pain. I had to solve this issue as well. While I have been assured that this is all going to be resolved in the reworking of certifications, either through being abl to associate a learning plan to a certification or linking a group of classes togther to earn the certification ( FINGERS CROSSED FOR THIS TO HAPPEN) here is how I did what you are looking to do It is not pretty but works

      1. Put all the courses you need into one learning plan. 
      2. Add a final enforced order “you did it! click to earn your certification course” at the end that is only available once your required courses are completed. We added a survey so it felt less like a “click this because the system is weird and we have to add a hoop to jump through “ experience for the learner.
      3. Tie your certification to completing that final course. 

      This way you get a single learning plan with your corses and can meet current course limitation issues in the certification object. 

      If you still need multiple learning plans for your onboarding with classes that crossover, the nice thing is if the learner completes it in one learning plan it counts towards any other learning plan. The icky thing, is if you have the same course in multiple learning plans and use enforced order in ANY of them, the learner has to meet the prerequisite order in the other learning plans before they can take the course. I get the logic, but at the same time eewww. 

      Hope this helps. Ping back if you have more questions. 

       

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        hailey.gebhart
        Helper III

        ​@lrnlab ​@Davefox Thank you both so much for your thoughtful responses. We will definitely be taking your suggestions under consideration and adjusting out implementation plan to improve our admin and learner experience.

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