This is the distinction most worth getting right, both for your own expectations and for how you describe your work to someone else.
| Course Certificate | Professional Credential | |
|---|---|---|
| What it records | You completed one Course | You completed a whole Career Path, with reviewed work behind it |
| Evidence behind it | Automatic assessment results | Submitted work scored by a reviewer |
| Did a person read your work? | No | Yes |
| Scope | One Course | One Career Path |
| Can it be revoked? | No | Yes, with a recorded reason |
Why the distinction matters
A Course Certificate is a real record and worth having — it proves you covered the material and passed its assessments. It does not claim that anyone examined your design work, because nobody did. Describing it as though it did would be an overstatement that the verification page itself would contradict.
MasarUX never marks a Competency Domain as verified from Course completion alone, and never presents the two records as equivalent anywhere in the product. Neither should you.
Sharing either one
Both have a public verification page that anyone can open without an account. Share the link rather than a screenshot: the page is served by MasarUX, so it confirms the record itself instead of asking the reader to trust an image.
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Related articles
- Course CertificatesWhat a Course Certificate records, who can generate one, and how a third party verifies it.
- Earning a Professional CredentialWhat a path requires, how eligibility is computed, and what the credential records.
- Your profile, and what is publicWhat a stranger can see, what only you can see, and how your public handle works.
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