# When the certificate is granted: conditions, average, tiers and rank > On Dirassa Plus a condition is a sentence you read, not a box you fill: “Completes all published lessons, and reaches an average of ≥ 10 / 20 over 3 papers”. The average is computed from the papers you marked, with the coefficients you choose: no mark copied by hand. In this lesson Mourad has the calligraphy certificate granted on the average of two tests and an exam, with a “certificate of excellence” from 16 and a “certificate of achievement” from 10. Same for a tutor certifying the end of a term for their group, or a trainer rewarding a pass in their final assessment. - Time: About 7 minutes - Who can do it: Needs “Manage certificates” to change the conditions. With “Issue certificates” you see them without changing them. - Updated: 2026-10-24 - URL: https://www.dirassaplus.com/en/guide/certificate-rules ## In short 1. Read the conditions as sentences and add the source’s; beside them, how many earn it now and how many would with your change, before you save. 2. “Average”: choose the papers and their coefficients, or read them from the gradebook, and what happens to absences. 3. “Certificate tiers”: “certificate of excellence” from 16, “certificate of achievement” from 10; title and seal follow. 4. “Print the student’s rank”: “1st of 28”, once every paper is closed. 5. Under the conditions, in the same save: how it’s granted, name confirmation, the notice, validity and the grade. 6. In “Design” → “What’s printed”: the printed duration, the date format, the Hijri date and the number prefix; the name, from ⋯ → “Rename”. ## Before you start - Publish the papers that will count and set “Show results” on each: a paper whose results show “Never” counts for no certificate. - If the course has a saved “Gradebook”, its coefficients are ready for the certificate to read. ## The steps ### 1. Conditions as sentences, and what they do to the numbers On the certificate’s page, the “Conditions” tab: the conditions and “How is it granted?” are one form, saved once. It opens with “The certificate is granted when the student meets all of the following”. For a course or group: “Completes … of the published lessons” (all, 90%, 80%…), “And passes … with a mark ≥ … / 20”, “And has been enrolled for at least …” (against skipping through lessons in a day); for a group, “And was marked present on the group’s attendance list” and “And the group has ended”. For a live course: “Attends at least … of the live sessions, … minutes or more in each”, counted from actual presence in the room. For a sessions pack: “Completes … of the pack’s sessions”. For a track: every course’s certificate. Beside each condition, × to remove it; below, “Add a condition:” with what’s left: “Lessons”, “Exam”, “Average”, “Minimum duration”, “Attendance list”, “Group end”… On the side, “With these conditions, right now”: a large number for those who “qualify and haven’t received it”, then “Close”, “On the way”, “Issued” and “Awaiting your approval”. Change a condition and the count is redone with your conditions before you save, and every number that moves keeps the old one beside it: “(now 6)”. At the bottom of the tab, as long as something changed, the save bar: “Unsaved changes · 4 would qualify (now 6)”, with “Discard” and “Save conditions”. Leave the tab before saving and a popup asks first. And if someone changed them in another window before you: “These conditions were changed in another window. We loaded what was saved there and kept your edits: save them to replace it.” On screen: «Conditions»، «The certificate is granted when the student meets all of the following»، «Add a condition:»، «Lessons»، «Exam»، «Average»، «Minimum duration»، «Attendance list»، «Group end»، «With these conditions, right now»، «qualify and haven’t received it»، «Discard»، «Save conditions» Tip: The exam condition reads what the student sees: after the paper’s result is out, with the attempt that counts (the best or the last). Heads-up: New conditions apply to those who haven’t received it yet; nothing already issued is withdrawn. On an active certificate the save message says “Conditions saved. 4 students qualify now.” with “Grant it now (4)”; otherwise everyone is re-checked tonight. ### 2. “Average”: several papers, with coefficients “Average”, under “Add a condition:”, adds a minimum-average sentence out of 20 and, under it, the papers counted: every published test and exam of the course, a box to choose it and its coefficient beside it (× 0.5 to × 5). Exams start at × 2, tests at × 1. Mourad’s example: “Ruqaa test” × 1, “Naskh test” × 1, “Final exam” × 2; Amina has 15, 17 and 18, so (15 + 17 + 18 × 2) ÷ 4 = 17 / 20. The method: “Weighted average” or “Points total” (points earned over points possible, scaled to 20; no coefficients). “Missed a paper:” “waits until they sit it” or “counts zero once it closes”. If the course has a saved gradebook, a choice appears: “Chosen here” or “Gradebook”. The average is complete once every paper’s results are out to the student; until then they see a paper awaiting results. When the course has two papers or more, Noqta offers to switch to the average, with “Use the average”. On screen: «Average»، «Weighted average»، «Points total»، «Missed a paper:»، «waits until they sit it»، «counts zero once it closes»، «Chosen here»، «Gradebook»، «Use the average» Tip: Set coefficients once in the “Gradebook” and have the certificate read it: you see them next to everyone’s marks, and every certificate built on it follows. Heads-up: A paper whose results show “Never” is never released, so an average that counts it never completes. Change its “Show results” or remove it from the calculation. ### 3. “Certificate tiers”: excellence and achievement With an average or exam condition, a folded “Certificate tiers” section appears at the end of “How is it granted?”; its summary says what’s set: “No tiers: one certificate for everyone who meets the conditions.” or the tiers and their marks. Open it and turn on “Tiers by result”: one certificate, several tiers by result — “certificate of excellence” from 16, “certificate of achievement” from 10. Each tier has its name, “from” (≥ 16 / 20…) and its “Seal colour”: “Gold”, “Silver”, “Bronze” or “Academy colour”. “Another tier” adds one, up to four. Then “Title follows the tier” and “Seal in the tier’s colour”. Amina, averaging 17, gets a certificate of excellence with a gold seal; Karim, at 12.5, a certificate of achievement with a silver seal, from one design. Below the lowest tier there’s no tier: the certificate keeps its own title if the conditions are met. Tiers are saved with the conditions. In the editor, the “Certificate tier” field writes it elsewhere if you wish. On screen: «Certificate tiers»، «Tiers by result»، «Tier name»، «from»، «Seal colour»، «Gold»، «Silver»، «Bronze»، «Academy colour»، «Another tier»، «Title follows the tier»، «Seal in the tier’s colour»، «Certificate tier» Tip: Start the lowest tier at the condition’s mark (10 / 20): every student who passes gets a tier. ### 4. “Print the student’s rank” With an average condition, “Print the student’s rank” appears: counted among complete results and frozen at issue, it makes the certificate wait until every counted paper is closed. It reads “1st”, “3rd of 12”; equal averages share a rank. It’s counted within the same source: a group certificate ranks that group’s students. Since a rank is only true once everyone has sat, the certificate waits until each counted paper is closed; the student sees that it waits for the papers to close. Close them at their closing time, or from each paper’s page with “Announce results” (or “Stop taking answers” in ⋯ for a paper whose results show immediately), and every certificate goes out with a true rank. In the editor, place the “Rank” field where you want; if you forget to turn printing on, the “Before activating” list tells you. On screen: «Print the student’s rank»، «Announce results»، «Stop taking answers»، «Rank»، «Before activating» Tip: For a “top of the class” certificate, combine the rank with tiers: the first with a gold seal, the rest by their tier. Heads-up: Once issued, the rank doesn’t change, even if you edit a mark later. ### 5. How it’s granted, the grade and the name Under the conditions, in the same tab, “How is it granted?”: “Automatically” (the moment the conditions are met), “After your approval” (“Requests reach you in “Students” with the evidence: you approve or decline.”, and also at the top of the “Register”; a rejection carries a reason the student receives) or “Manually” (only when you grant it yourself). Under it, switches: “Ask the student to confirm their name before issuing” (“Recommended”: most certificate mistakes are names); “Notify the student when it’s issued”; and “Expires” (off: “Never”; on, you choose how long it’s “Valid for”: 6, 12, 24, 36 or 60 months). Then “Grade from the mark”: on the baccalaureate scale, pass ≥ 10, fairly good ≥ 12, good ≥ 14, very good ≥ 16, excellent ≥ 18; with an average condition, the line under it reads “The grade comes from the average”. All of it is saved with the conditions, in one bar: “Save conditions”. On screen: «How is it granted?»، «Automatically»، «After your approval»، «Manually»، «Ask the student to confirm their name before issuing»، «Recommended»، «Notify the student when it’s issued»، «Expires»، «Never»، «Valid for»، «Grade from the mark»، «The grade comes from the average»، «Save conditions» Tip: A professional certificate renewed every two years? “Expires” after 24 months: “Valid until …” shows on it and on the verification page. ### 6. “Design”: what’s printed The certificate page’s “Design” tab: the certificate’s preview in a sample student’s name, at its current version; when the design has changes that aren’t approved yet, you choose between “Approved” and “Draft”, with “Approve the new design”. Beside it, the “What’s printed” card (“The preview changes at once; it applies to what’s issued after you save.”): “Printed duration”: “From the lessons” or “Type it yourself”; “Date format”; “With the Hijri date”; and “Number prefix”, which replaces the identity’s for this certificate only (numbers already issued don’t change). Change something and a bar, “Unsaved changes to what’s printed”, appears with “Save”: “Saved. It applies to what’s issued from now on.”. The certificate’s name (in your dashboard, and on the certificate wherever you placed its field) changes from ⋯ at the top of the page → “Rename”. Under the card, “Versions: what’s issued never changes”: each certificate keeps the design version it went out with, and that’s where you reissue older ones (the lesson “Issuing and following up”). On screen: «Design»، «Approved»، «Draft»، «Approve the new design»، «What’s printed»، «Printed duration»، «From the lessons»، «Type it yourself»، «Date format»، «With the Hijri date»، «Number prefix»، «Save»، «Rename»، «Versions: what’s issued never changes» Tip: A course both streamed and recorded? Type the duration yourself if the real hours exceed the published videos’. ## Once the conditions are set - Set coefficients once: Everyone’s marks and averages in one place: the lesson “Gradebook”. - Grant and review: Who earns it, approvals and the register: the lesson “Issuing and following up”. - Release results: Close the paper so averages complete: the lesson “Grading and results”. ## Questions **When is the average computed?** Once every one of its papers’ results is out to the student: immediately or when the paper closes, per “Show results”. The certificate is then checked again by itself. **A student missed a test: do they get the certificate?** As you chose for absences: “waits until they sit it”, and their average stays incomplete; or “counts zero once it closes”, and it’s computed with a zero on that paper. **The student sat the test twice: which mark counts?** The one you choose in the paper itself: “Attempt that counts” — “The best” or “The last”. **Why haven’t the ranked certificates gone out yet?** The rank waits for every counted paper to close. Close them from their page, or wait for their closing time. **Can I use other grades?** Grades follow the baccalaureate scale: from pass at 10 to excellent at 18. For tiers with your own names, use “Certificate tiers”. **I changed a mark after issuing: does the certificate change?** No: what’s issued keeps its result from the day it went out. To correct it, revoke it from the register; its conditions are checked again. **I eased the conditions of an active certificate: does it go to those who now qualify?** Yes. Before you save, the bar says how many would (“9 would qualify (now 4)”); after, the message says “Conditions saved. 9 students qualify now.” with “Grant it now (9)”. Otherwise everyone is re-checked tonight.