P2PU is not an accredited university, and therefore does not provide traditional accreditation. We support any efforts participants make to receive outside accreditation, and are currently exploring innovative alternatives with third parties like the Mozilla Foundation and the University of California Irvine to create opportunities for certification of P2PU learning.

Still, it's nice to get a certificate to show an accomplishment.

Participants in P2PU courses are welcome to experiment with the idea of community signed certificates. In your course, why not ask all users who completed the course, to sign each others certificates. One way of doing that is for all participants to take photos of their signatures and send them to the course organizer, who creates one certificate that contains all signatures. A more romantic idea would be to send a pack of printed certificates to each person in the course, who signs, and then forwards it on to the next person. The last person mails one fully signed certificate to each participant.

In addition, Frauke Stegman, a friend of P2PU has designed a certificate for us. It's more like an artwork, and some recipients thought their PDF reader was broken. They do not look like traditional certificates. If you'd like to make P2PU certificates available to your participants, we can send you the electronic version and you can fill in the names and export as PDF files.

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