Free professional certificates at Rasmussen

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Hello all!

Well, the first Rasmussen University Personal Support Center Rep (Kurt) has cut off all communication with me. I have reopened the support ticket requesting a certificate instead of a badge. I now have another Personal Support Center Rep (Danielle) looking into the issue. I'm guessing that she will cut off communication in a few days as well. It seems as though Rasmussen just wants to use the free certificate program as a path into its degree programs. If you have no desire to pursue a degree there then they have no desire to help you. And by help I mean respond to messages. There will be no help for a certificate as it seems they are sticking to their "badges only" policy. 

As far as the actual courses. I thought they were pretty easy except for the Project Deliverables. The Organizational Leadership certificate requires 2 PowerPoint presentations (one for each course). I thought I did well and followed the rubric exactly. The teacher seemed to disagree. No matter what I did, it seemed like I had to do more and resubmit. When I met the 80% minimum required on the assignments, the Rasmussen system automatically issued badges, although the teacher wanted me to continue to work. I will not be resubmitting the assignments as I have been issued a badge for each course and a badge for the "Professional Certificate". I am done.

TLDR - There probably won't be a certificate issued for the "Professional Certificate" course, only a badge. And the teachers want you to do more work than necessary on the assignments. Rasmussen University seems so "scammy".

OldManOfTheSea

I was curious about the deliverables. Seemed odd to require a paper for a free class. I think I'll stick with Coursera and LinkedIn Learning. I like that Coursera gives me a digital certificate. I save them all in a file. Badges are harder to keep track of.

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Are they Credly badges? LinkedIn badges? Something else?

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The website info says LinkedIn badges. I don't think you'll see them on Credly as these are are not ACE courses and have no credit of any kind.