One-Click Printable Certificates for Every Student
End of the unit. End of the semester. Field day. Awards day. Every PE teacher knows the moment: 30 students lined up, 30 certificates that need to look like they care.
Until last week, that meant a Word doc, a mail-merge, a printer queue that always jammed at student #12, and an hour you didn't have. Today, Running Kiddos generates a class-wide PDF in one click — with each kid's actual stats automatically filled in.
What it looks like
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Landscape Letter, gold double-border, the school's name at the top, the kid's name in big elegant Times type, the achievement in your school's green, and dotted lines for date and coach signature. Print on the cardstock you already have for awards day.
Five templates, no setup
Each template auto-fills from the data you've already collected. The current period filter (Fall 2026, this week, last 30 days, whatever you have selected) flows straight into the certificate's body text and headline.
Single student or whole class
Two paths into it, depending on the moment.
1One kid, one cert. Open any student's profile, click the green Certificate button, pick a template. The dropdown shows you the actual numbers in advance — "Distance Champion · 142 laps" — so you know what you're about to print. Click. PDF.
2Whole class, one document. On the Students page, select the kids you want, open Bulk actions, choose Print certificates…. Pick a template. The result is one PDF with one certificate per page — print the whole document and hand them out. No zip files. No batch downloads. One Print dialog.
Period-aware totals
If you've set up a saved period like Fall 2026 in the dashboard, the certificate uses those dates automatically. The headline reads DISTANCE CHAMPION · FALL 2026, and the body says "from August 14 to December 22, 2026."
For rolling presets like "Last 30 days," the headline drops the badge (because "Last 30 days" stops being meaningful by next month) and the body just spells out the actual date range — "from April 6 to May 6, 2026."
The point: parents reading the certificate at home a year from now still know exactly what their kid did and when.
How it scales
The bulk version uses the same renderer as the single version. A class of 30 takes about 3 seconds to generate — the slow step is your printer, not the app. We've tested up to 200 students in one PDF; works fine.
The PDF is generated entirely in your browser using your own data. Nothing's uploaded to a third-party service. Your students' names and stats never leave your device for this feature.
What's next
A few teachers have asked about uploading their school's logo, custom colors, and digital signatures. Coming in v2. For now, your school's name appears at the top of every certificate, and the rest is the Running Kiddos brand.
Also coming: Class Champion certificates that show "#1 of 28 runners in 3rd Period PE for Fall 2026" — an awards-day variant for the top performers in each class.
Cost
Certificates are included on every Running Kiddos plan, including the free tier. No add-on, no per-cert fee. You're already tracking the data; printing it on a nice piece of paper is free.
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