What’s the difference between a Care Courses certificate and transcript?

Once you have suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed your course(s), we know that you need proof of all your hard work! Whether you are try­ing to present this infor­ma­tion to your boss, state licen­sor, or anoth­er indi­vid­ual who needs proof of your course­work, we offer two dif­fer­ent options that cer­ti­fy your suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion. Read on to learn what’s the dif­fer­ence between a Care Cours­es cer­tifi­cate and transcript.

Care Courses Certificate of Completion

A Care Cours­es cer­tifi­cate is an offi­cial doc­u­ment that dis­plays the hours you have earned by suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ing a Care Course. Upon suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of your course, a link to your offi­cial cer­tifi­cate will be locat­ed to the right of suc­cess­ful­ly passed cours­es in the My Cours­es area of your online Care Cours­es account. Select the “View Cer­tifi­cate” link next to a suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed course to down­load, view, email and/or print your certificate.

Your cer­tifi­cate will include:

• your name
• the title of the course
• the date you suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed the course
• the num­ber of clock hours and CEUs the course is worth
• our trainer’s signature
• a place for your sig­na­ture (sign it when it arrives!)
• spe­cif­ic train­ing infor­ma­tion (top­ics, core knowl­edge, etc.) if your state requires it

Cer­tifi­cates can be pre­sent­ed to state licen­sors, employ­ers, and any oth­er per­son who needs proof that you have com­plet­ed your train­ing. Cer­tifi­cates are issued after we have grad­ed your work and you have suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed your course. 

Official Care Courses Transcript

A tran­script is an offi­cial doc­u­ment that lists all the cours­es that you have suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed with Care Cours­es. Tran­scripts are nice to have, but they are not usu­al­ly required by licen­sors or oth­er offi­cials. Tran­scripts are often used to show com­ple­tion of all cours­es for your CDA.

Cost: Tran­scripts cost $10.00

A tran­script includes:

• suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed course titles with clock hours/CEUs
• a short sen­tence briefly describ­ing the course con­tents (not the spe­cif­ic state top­ics list­ed on the certificates)
• our director’s signature

A tran­script costs $10*, but you only need to order one if you require it for a spe­cif­ic rea­son, such as renew­al of your CDA or oth­er cre­den­tial. Call us to order one and we will be hap­py to send it to you via email!

Whether you need a cer­tifi­cate, a tran­script, or an answer to a dif­fer­ent ques­tion, call us at 1–800-685‑7610, Mon­day through Fri­day, 9–5 ET, or email us days, evenings and week­ends: info@CareCourses.com. We’re here to help!

Want to learn more about Care Cours­es? Check out our blog on the Advan­tages of Dis­tance Learn­ing Cours­es for Child Care Providers. 

*If you order one of our CDA sets, we’ll include a tran­script for free when you suc­cess­ful­ly com­plete the last course in the set! It will be emailed to you with­in one week of com­plet­ing your last course.