The Certificates section is a register: it answers the question "did we issue this?". Each row holds what is printed on the document, and nothing more.
How one is issued
Two ways.
1For a passed attempt. If the question set has certificates switched on, passing it produces a certificate. Without a verdict there is none: an attempt with written answers waits for a teacher.
2By hand. For a practical exam, for sea time, for a whole course. Teachers and above may issue.
Issuing the same certificate twice does not create a second one — the portal hands back the one that exists.
What is written inside
The holder's name and the course title are written into the document, not looked up through a reference. People change their surname and schools rename courses, but a document that has been issued must stay what it was. This is not a shortcut for speed; it is what a document is.
The number is human and runs by school and by year: 2026-001, 2026-014. It is checked against paper character by character, which is why the register lines numbers up in a neat column.
Verification by link
Every certificate has a public verification address, and it is random rather than derived from the number. Otherwise a school's list of graduates would leak to anyone willing to count upwards.
The page needs no sign-in: certificates are shown to employers and charter bases, and demanding an account from them would be absurd. Only what is already printed on the document is exposed.
There are three answers and none of them is silence: the document is valid; the document was revoked, with a reason and the date it was issued; no such number was ever issued. A blank screen here would make a forgery indistinguishable from a typo.
Revoking
An admin can revoke a certificate, and a reason is required. A revoked document does not vanish: the verification page keeps answering and says that it was revoked and why.
Branding and printing
The plan decides the look: on the branded plan the school's logo is on the document, on the shared plan ours is. In the branded plan card the line about certificates replaces the general one rather than being added to it — so that nobody ends up expecting two logos on one sheet.
The printable version opens at its own address without the portal chrome: it is printed or saved as PDF, and menus have no business being on paper.
The verification page, by contrast, never takes on a school's branding. It is shown by Voone and must look the same for every school — otherwise a forged document could come with a forged page confirming it.