LMS Certification

Turn-key certification program with a comprehensive credentialling system.

Certification is complicated. Making sure you can trust in the skills and competencies in your organization is one of the great drivers of LMS adoption. Thinking Cap has served Associations and Highly regulated Medical and Pharmaceutical Organizations for over a decade. This experience shows in the rich Certification tools we can provide.

Automated Certification

Maintain certifications automatically by setting an expiration. Allow the LMS to manage the process of re-enrolling your learners and notifying them in advance.

  • Automated tracking of certification schedule.
  • Automated re-enrollment with a variety of scheduling options
  • Email notifications to learners of upcoming certifications
  • Reports on the certifications and their expiry

High Fidelity Credit Issuing and Reporting

Thinking Cap allows you to define any number of Credit Providers. Each Provider may have any number of Credit Categories and rules around how credits may be issued. After working for many years within the Continuing Education community we have developed the richest credit issuing system of any LMS. Many unique scenarios are supported in Thinking Cap including:

Credit categories

Allowing issuing of credits across multiple categories while enforcing a set maximum.

Credit statements

Provide automated credit statements will all necessary information for your learners to report the credits they have earned.

Manual claim vs auto awarded

Settings for if credits are automatically issued upon completion or if credits must be claimed by the user.

Award the max or less

Settings to allow for learners to be issued either the maximum credits or a smaller amount of credits.

Time-based maximums

Set System wide limits to control how many credits can be earned in an hour, a day or an instructor-led session.

Credits for facilitators and presenters

Define rules to assign credits to your facilitators, presenters, speakers and reviewers.

Granular credits

Define the increments of credits that may be issued to 3 decimal places.

Automated reporting

Integrations into several reporting agencies, such as ACPE and BPS, to automatically report on the credits earned by their members.

As our customers find new scenarios, we will be there to support them. Add to this a track record and willingness to develop the needed Web Services for reporting to your Certification Partners and you will see why Thinking Cap is the fastest growing Association LMS.

Certificates of Completion

Thinking Cap allows you to create any number of PDF Certificates and gives you total control over the look, feel and content of those certificates.

More than just creating certificates we give you ultimate control over how they are issued. Thinking Cap gives you the power to assign one or more Certificates to users based on rules about who those users are and their performance in the Activity.

Open Badges

Thinking Cap LMS features a robust badging system that lets users earn digital badges for completing courses, reaching milestones, demonstrating specific skills and more. These badges are based on the Open Badge standard, ensuring they are verifiable and include metadata about the criteria for earning them, the issuer, and the issue date. This system provides motivation and recognition, making badges credible markers of achievement within the learning journey.

Social sharing, learners can showcase their accomplishments to peers, employers, and educational communities, fostering a sense of community and encouraging continuous learning. This feature not only celebrates success but also drives engagement and skill development.

Find out more about the OpenBadge standard.

OpenBadges

Prerequisites

Certification can form a web of dependencies to drive the skills development journey. Thinking Cap support’s detailed Prerequisite rule sets that allow for rules based on achievement, “freshness” as well as a mix of optional and required Prerequisites. Prerequisites can be created for subsequent enrollments as well to support re-Certification.