Introduction
Tangible Cred is a powerful and flexible system for managing accredited course earnings in your WordPress LMS. The system tracks relationships between users and accrediting agencies, storing their license numbers and any other information required for reporting, and issues earnings when users meet defined criteria.
How Cred works:
Tangible Cred can function with very little setup out-of-the-box; as soon as the plugin is installed, every course completion generates what the plugin internally calls a “Default Accreditation”; every course completion is logged in the system in such a way that a certificate related to said completion can always be viewed and downloaded - no data is ever lost (unless deleted on purpose!) That works for basic tracking, however, the power of Tangible Cred comes into full effect when taking advantage of the hierarchical rule structure that can be enacted within the system.
The most basic level is that of taxonomy; Tangible Cred is fully communicant with WordPress data structures and makes use of WordPress Taxonomies for structuring parts of its data structure; one defines Point Types, Regions, and Professions as taxonomies. The above screen shows how to configure default earnings - the above-mentioned Default Accreditation. According to the above, every course completion within the system will by default lead to the user earning a default certificate containing Continuing Education Hour type points, which have previously been defined in the Point Types above (not shown, but implied; it’s just the default WordPress taxonomy screen)
The Accrediting Agency (or Accrediting Body, if one wishes to call it so) is an overarching entity that defines the kind of Points a user might potentially earn from completing content related to its associated Accreditations, their expiration dates (feature still pending), the regions it serves, it includes a “translation” layer between professions and their respective codes (we discovered the need for this in a real-world scenario from one our clients!) The agency defines the kind of fields a user must complete should they become members of it, the most important of which are license fields. License field definitions are quite powerful; they can force a user to pick a particular profession or region, and the ensuing text field can be masked, with the automatic addition of an optional prefix/suffix. In the spirit of largesse and flexibility of what may be configured in the system, an Accrediting Agency can be tied to several Accreditations (or Accreditation Templates), whereof at least one is necessary for the system to function. A “flat” system will use one Accreditation per Accrediting Agency.
These further refine the Tangible Cred “experience” - by definition, every Learndash Course (or, in future versions - Lifter LMS Course, or any other piece of content) that leads to an earning event in the system must be specified here; one can also restrict it to particular professions, add a time-variable training code to the ensuing certificate, or configure fields defined by the Accrediting Agency.
Earned Accreditations Certificates will be automatically generated. However, the templates for the certificates must be customized for your business use case.