Certificates & Progress

How ImpactMojo tracks your learning and issues credentials.

Progress Tracking

ImpactMojo tracks your learning so you can pick up where you left off and see how far you have come.

What gets tracked:

• Which modules you have completed in each course

• Quiz scores and reflection prompt responses

• Lab outputs you have created

• Games you have played

• Handouts you have viewed

Where to see your progress:

Your personal dashboard shows a summary of your activity across all courses, labs, and games. Each course page also shows a progress bar indicating how many modules you have finished.

Important: Progress tracking requires a free account. Without an account, you can access everything on ImpactMojo, but your progress will not be saved between sessions.

Bookmarks, Notes, and Reading Lists

As you work through ImpactMojo content, you can save items for later:

• Bookmarks. Save any course module, handout, case study, or DevDiscourses paper to your bookmarks. Access them from your dashboard.

• Notes. Add personal notes to any module. These are private — only you can see them. Use them to capture thoughts, connect ideas to your work, or note questions to follow up on.

• Reading lists. Create themed reading lists from the DevDiscourses library (500+ papers and books). Useful for building a syllabus or preparing for a research project.

All of these features require a free account.

Course Completion

A flagship course is marked as complete when you have:

1. Worked through all modules (approximately 13 per course)

2. Completed the quizzes at the end of each module

3. Engaged with at least some of the reflection prompts

Foundational courses are marked complete when you have read through all sections.

Completion is tracked automatically — there is no "submit" button. The platform records your progress as you go.

Certificates

When you complete a flagship course, you earn a digital certificate.

Important: ImpactMojo is not a university, accredited institution, or government-recognised credentialing body. Our certificates are micro-credentials that certify course completion only. They confirm that you worked through the modules and quizzes — nothing more.

What our certificates do NOT do:

• They do not guarantee employment, internships, or acquisition of skills.

• They are not equivalent to university degrees, diplomas, or academic credit.

• They cannot be stored, transferred, or counted as credits in any government digital credential system — including DigiLocker, APAAR, Aadhaar-linked systems, ABC (Academic Bank of Credits), or any national/international equivalents.

• They do not qualify as National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF) or National Skills Information Management (NSIM) credentials.

• They are not recognised by UGC, AICTE, or any regulatory body.

Our certificates are a record of completion issued by a private ed-tech platform. They may be useful as evidence of self-directed learning on your CV or in a portfolio, but they carry no institutional or regulatory weight.

What the certificate includes:

• Your name

• The course title

• The date of completion

• A unique verification URL

• A digital badge (W3C Open Badges 3.0 standard)

How to get your certificate:

1. Create a free ImpactMojo account (if you have not already).

2. Complete all modules and quizzes in a flagship course.

3. Your certificate is generated automatically.

4. Download it from your dashboard or share the verification link directly.

W3C Open Badges 3.0

ImpactMojo certificates use the W3C Open Badges 3.0 standard. Here is what that means in plain language:

Open Badges are digital credentials — like a certificate, but smarter. Instead of a PDF that anyone could fake, an Open Badge is a verifiable digital file that contains information about what you earned, who issued it, and when.

Why this matters for you:

• Verifiable. Anyone can check that your certificate is real by visiting the verification URL. No need to contact ImpactMojo to confirm.

• Portable. You own your badge. Add it to your LinkedIn profile, email signature, CV, or any platform that supports Open Badges.

• Standardized. W3C Open Badges 3.0 is an international standard maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (the same organization that sets standards for the web itself). Your credential is recognized by platforms and employers worldwide.

• Machine-readable. The badge contains structured data that systems can read automatically — useful for organizations tracking staff credentials.

Think of it like the difference between a handwritten receipt and a bank-verified digital transaction. Both say you completed something, but one is independently verifiable.

Certificate Verification

Every ImpactMojo certificate has a unique verification URL. Anyone — an employer, a university, a grant committee — can visit that URL to confirm:

• The certificate is genuine and was issued by ImpactMojo.

• The name on the certificate matches.

• The course was completed on the stated date.

• The certificate has not been revoked.

To verify a certificate, visit the verification page on the ImpactMojo site and enter the certificate ID or URL. The system checks it instantly.

Organizational Progress Tracking

If you are managing a team at an NGO, think tank, or university program, the Organization tier gives you visibility into your team's learning:

Team dashboards show:

• Which courses each team member has started and completed

• Progress across the team — how many people have finished a given course or track

• Certificate records for all team members

• Time spent on the platform

How to set it up:

1. Subscribe to the Organization tier (₹1,499/user/month).

2. Invite team members by email.

3. Assign learning paths or specific courses to your team.

4. Monitor progress from your organization dashboard.

This is especially useful for:

• NGOs that need to document staff capacity building for donor reports.

• University programs tracking student progress across a semester.

• Think tanks ensuring research teams have shared methodological foundations.

Team members keep full control of their individual accounts. The organization dashboard shows progress data, not personal notes or bookmarks.

Learning Paths

A learning path is a curated sequence of courses, labs, and games designed around a specific role or goal.

ImpactMojo's 6 built-in learning tracks:

1. MEL & Research — Monitoring, evaluation, qualitative and quantitative methods

2. Economics & Policy — Development economics, political economy, fundraising

3. Gender & Equity — Gender studies, women's economic empowerment, care economy, data feminism

4. Governance & Society — Constitution, decolonization, community development

5. Health & Wellbeing — Public health, climate, social-emotional learning, livelihoods

6. Communication & Data — Data literacy, visual ethnography, behavior change communication, advocacy

Each track recommends a sequence of flagship courses, foundational courses, labs, and games that build on each other.

Creating custom learning paths:

Organizations on the Organization tier can create custom learning paths for their teams. This is useful when:

• You want to combine modules from different courses into a single pathway.

• You are running a training program with a specific sequence of topics.

• You want to assign different paths to different roles (field staff vs. researchers vs. communications team).

Custom paths can include any combination of courses, modules, labs, games, and handouts available on the platform.

For individual learners:

You do not need to follow a predefined track. Browse the course catalog, bookmark what interests you, and build your own journey. The learning tracks are suggestions — starting points that help if you are not sure where to begin.