Students who finish the units you teach in Personal Finance Core Foundations (3e) can claim a printable certificate of completion. It lists the units they finished and the national personal finance standards those units cover, so it's something a student can hand to a counselor, add to a college application or keep for a resume. You decide which units count, you can see where every student stands, and you can print the whole class's certificates in one go.
Available on: every plan, including Free. Certificates come only with Personal Finance Core Foundations (3e), because it's the course with a published alignment to the national standards.
How a student earns a certificate
You choose which units of 3e count for your class (the whole course, until you change it).
The student finishes every lesson and section quiz in those units.
The certificate shows as ready. The student opens their certificate page, types their name as it should print, and claims it.
They can download it as a PDF and, if they choose, turn on a verify link so a counselor or college can check it's real.
The student side is explained step by step in Earning your course certificate, which you can share with your class.
Choose which units count
Click Classrooms in the sidebar and open a class that has Personal Finance Core Foundations (3e).
Click the settings gear at the end of the class's tab bar, then Certificates.
Under Which units count, tick the units your class actually covers. Each unit shows how many sections it has and how many standards it covers. Unit 10 (Prediction Markets & Sports Betting) says "no standards": you can include it, but it adds sections to finish without adding standards to the certificate.
Click Save units. A message confirms "Certificate units saved", and the summary at the top right updates, for example "84 sections · 52 standards".
Until you save a choice, the whole course counts, and the page reminds you: "Right now the whole course counts. Pick the units your class actually covers." Click Whole course to tick every unit again. You need at least one unit.
Good to know: certificates already claimed keep the units they were issued with. Changing your units later affects only students who haven't claimed yet.
If the class doesn't have 3e, the Certificates page tells you so and points you to Coursework > Assigned Courses to add it.
Track your students
Below the unit picker, the Students table shows everyone in the class, with a summary line such as "4 claimed · 2 ready to claim · 19 still working". For each student you'll see:
Sections: how many of the counted sections they've finished, such as "31 / 84".
Status: In progress, Ready to claim, Claimed or Turned off.
Name on certificate: the name the student typed when they claimed, with "link on" if they've turned on a verify link, or "Not claimed".
A section counts once every lesson and its section quiz are done, the same rule the course uses everywhere. See How courses are organized: units, sections, lessons, and quizzes.
Print certificates
Click Print all claimed to print every claimed certificate in the class, one per page.
Click Print on a student's row to print only theirs.
Your browser's print window opens. Each certificate is one US Letter page in landscape. Choose your printer, or choose "Save as PDF" to keep a file for a counselor.
What's on a certificate
The student's name, under "CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION".
"for completing every lesson and section quiz in" every unit (or, for example, "6 of 15 units") of Personal Finance Core Foundations (3rd Edition), with the units named when it's a partial course.
The number of standards covered from the 2021 National Standards for Personal Financial Education (Grade 12), by the Council for Economic Education and the Jump$tart Coalition, listed by standard number under six areas: Earning Income, Spending, Saving, Investing, Managing Credit and Managing Risk.
The class teacher's name and school (from the class owner's profile) and the date the student completed the work.
A certificate ID, a 12-character code such as K7QF-2M9X-HD9P.
Either "Verify at" with the certificate's verify link (when the student has turned the link on), or "Issued" with the date.
A short note that standards are listed by number from our published alignment, that Intertwined isn't affiliated with or endorsed by the Council for Economic Education or the Jump$tart Coalition, and that course credit is decided by the student's school.
Scores never appear on a certificate. The standards come from the Intertwined National Standards Alignment, which is linked from the Certificates page (3e standards alignment) and also available in the Teaching Toolkit.
Fix or turn off a certificate
Reset deletes a claimed certificate so the student can claim it again. Use it when a name is misspelled, since students can't change their name after claiming. You'll be asked to confirm: the old verify link stops working, and the new certificate gets a new ID.
Turn off disables a claimed certificate. It stops verifying, and the student can't print it until you click Restore. The student sees "Your teacher turned this certificate off. Ask them about it."
Verify links
A verify link lets someone without an Intertwined account confirm a certificate is real. Students turn it on themselves from their certificate page; it's off by default, and they can turn it off any time.
Anyone who opens the link, or goes to the address printed on the certificate, sees "This certificate is valid", the student's name, school, course, units, completion date and the standards covered, plus a copy of the certificate. They never see scores. If the link is off, the certificate was reset or turned off, or the code was mistyped, the page says "We can't find a certificate with that code".
Common questions
Can other courses have certificates?
No. Certificates need a standards alignment, and Personal Finance Core Foundations (3e) is the course that has one.
Do students have to finish the whole course?
No, only the units you've chosen. Pick the units your class really covers so the certificate is reachable.
A student is "In progress" but says they've finished everything.
Compare their Sections count with the total. A section isn't finished until its section quiz is done, so a skipped quiz is the usual reason. Also check whether they're working in a unit you didn't choose.
What happens if a student leaves my class?
A certificate they already claimed stays with them: it remains on their certificate page, and its verify link keeps working if they've turned it on. Encourage students to claim before they leave a class.
Does a certificate count for graduation credit?
That's the school's decision, and the certificate says so. It records that the student completed the work in Intertwined and which standards those units address.
Can my co-teacher manage certificates?
Yes. Anyone who teaches the class can choose units, print, reset and turn off certificates. The name printed as the teacher is the class owner's.