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Have been trying for past 1.5 hours to print a certificate cannot access my achievements. Problem with IT system or to many users or outside problem ??
Hi Dharmen,
Once a course is completed, it can take up to 24 hours for the system to generate the certificate of completion.
Kind regards,
OpenLearn team
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Ung Huyteang - 9 February 2021 6:07am
Hi!
I find the online courses offered by the Open Univeristy very useful.
I have completed Effective Communication in the workplace course and passed the quizzes. I was rewarded with a badge and a statement of participation; however, my name on the badge and statement was replaced by "UNKNOWN UNKNOWN".
Please let me know if it is a technical error and whether I will be rewarded with new badge and statement with correct name.
Claudia Torres Fernandez - 9 February 2021 3:43pm
Dear Ung,
Thank you for contacting us.
OL learners can change their name and email address themselves (Note that this is for self-registered users only. Former of current OU students can do that from StudentHome.) Either go directly to https://www.open.ac.uk/account/myaccount or find the link at the top of the screen (‘What you can't change here’ section), then click on the green button ‘Edit my profile’.
On that page, there is a personal details tab where you can change your name and email address.
Things to know:
After the change, they will need to log out and log back in.
The change will not affect how their name shows on the profile page – they will still need to change it from the ‘Edit my profile’ page.
The name change will not show on the top of this page straight away, it will get changed overnight - https://www.open.ac.uk/account/myaccount.
An email address change from that page will change where their SoP notification gets sent to, but will not change the email address they log in with. For that, we would contact IT to make a change.
This means that your contact email address will change, so any time we contact you or you set a new password it will be redirected to this new email address. But you will still need to sign up with the old one.
For multiple names, please be advised that the first name can only take 1 name. The surname can take multiple.
Could you please let me know if this has worked? Or if you still have any problem?
All the best,
OpenLearn team
Ung Huyteang - 10 February 2021 1:49am
Hi,
The problem is solved.
Thank you for your response.