Certificate verification
A public page that confirms a certificate is genuine, showing who issued it, to whom, for what, and when — so an employer can check a credential without contacting the issuer.
A PDF proves nothing on its own; it can be edited in a browser. A verification page on the issuer's own domain is what makes a credential checkable, which is why the certificate carries its ID or a link to that page.
The detail that gets missed: the issuing academy's name must be frozen onto the credential at issue. If the page simply shows the academy's current name, a later rename silently re-attributes every certificate ever issued.
For example
A certificate carries an ID and a QR code pointing at a public page. An employer scans it and sees: issued to Priya Sharma, for Advanced Spoken English, by Bright Future Academy, on 12 March 2026, still valid. No login, no email to the academy, no PDF to inspect for signs of editing — and a forged PDF fails because the page, not the file, is the record.
On Prolaud
Every issued certificate gets a public verification page, and the issuer name is stamped onto the record when it is issued rather than read live.
Related terms
- Student record — Everything an academy knows about one learner in one place: enrolments, payments, attendance, submissions, results and credentials.
- Learning management system (LMS) — Software that hosts course content, enrols students, tracks their progress and records results. It is the system of record for teaching, as opposed to a website that merely sells a course.