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Your LMS Wasn’t Built to Run a Certification Program: 7 Signs You’ve Outgrown It
LMS certification management can support basic training and assessment, but most learning management systems cannot manage the full lifecycle of a professional credential. An LMS may deliver courses and record completions effectively while leaving your team to manage eligibility, secure exams, proctoring, credentials, expirations, renewals, payments, and audit records elsewhere. That distinction matters when you … Read Article
What Is Test Administration? A Guide for Certification Programs
Test administration is the full process of delivering a certification exam — from the moment a candidate registers to the moment scores are reported and the session is documented. For a trade association or credentialing body, it covers candidate eligibility verification, exam scheduling, proctor assignment, security protocols, technical environment setup, incident management, and post-exam recordkeeping. … Read Article
How to Track Employee Training and Stay Compliant
Tracking employee training means maintaining a current, accessible record of who completed what, when, under which requirement, and whether their credential or certification is still valid. For organizations managing professional certification programs — where compliance is audited, not assumed — that definition matters a great deal. A completion report tells you who finished a course. … Read Article
What Are Digital Badges and How Do They Work?
Digital badges are verifiable, portable credentials issued in electronic format that contain embedded metadata about what was earned, who earned it, who issued it, and when it expires. For a university student, a digital badge might represent completing a workshop or demonstrating a skill. For a professional certification program, a digital badge is the credential … Read Article
Employee Certification Tracking: Choose the Right System
Employee certification tracking starts with one important distinction: Are you recording credentials that employees earned from outside organizations, or are you managing credentials that your own program administers and issues? Those are different jobs. A human resources system or credential repository can collect copies of external licenses and certificates. A certification management platform supports the … Read Article
Honorlock Proctoring: What It Is and How It Works for Certification Programs
Honorlock is a remote proctoring platform that monitors exam candidates online using a combination of AI and live human proctors. For organizations managing professional certification programs, it provides a way to enforce exam integrity without requiring candidates to travel to a physical testing center. That matters when your candidates are spread across time zones, employers, … Read Article
What Is Certification Management Software? A Practical Buyer’s Guide
Certification management software is a platform for administering the rules, assessments, credentials, and status records behind a certification program. It can help an organization manage how people qualify, demonstrate competence, receive a credential, and maintain that credential over time. The category is not standardized, however. One platform may focus on applications and eligibility review. Another … Read Article
How to Design Custom Certification Paths in Gauge
In today’s competitive landscape, learners and employers value structured certification programs over disconnected tests. That’s why Gauge offers robust tools for building custom certification paths with automated progress rules, prerequisites, and branded credentials. Start by defining your core certification outcomes. Then use Gauge to build a logical sequence of exams, training modules, or tasks (we … Read Article
What’s the difference between micro-credentialing and badging and are they worth the effort?
The difference between micro credentialing and badging is simply that micro credentialing is short, highly-focused, and typically digital skills learning and assessment, and badging is the digital proof of the exam’s successful completion. In this article we’ll explain how each is different, how they work together to build a skilled workforce, and why they might … Read Article
How to Prepare Employees for Remote Certification
There are a few key things to consider when you’re planning how to prepare employees for remote certification. Whether remote team members are sitting for a one-time test or will need to be regularly re-certified, you can make the process easier by following these guidelines: Use a secure online exam software solution that lets you … Read Article