Digital Peer Mentor Certificate

Certification status is a trust and compliance signal for the entire peer mentor program. An expired certificate means the mentor should not be taking active assignments, yet without a visible digital record many mentors and coordinators are unaware of impending expiry until it is too late. Providing an always-accessible in-app certificate removes ambiguity, reduces coordinator overhead from manual tracking, and gives mentors a tangible artifact of their commitment that supports motivation and professional identity. For HLF the digital certificate also reduces reliance on the physical card for day-to-day verification while preserving the card's ceremonial role, satisfying both operational and cultural needs.

Certificate records are stored in the certificates table, linked one-to-one with a course_enrollments record that has reached completed status. The Certificate Viewer Screen renders certificate metadata - mentor name, issuing organization, issue date, expiry date - in a styled card layout suitable for screenshot sharing. Expiry logic runs server-side; a background job queries certificates where expiry is within a configurable warning window and enqueues push notifications via the Push Notification Service. The admin portal's certification module allows Org Admins to manually issue, revoke, or extend certificates. No PDF generation is required for MVP of this feature; a rendered in-app card is sufficient.