A certificate of devotion

On Facebook Arena and on iversity Design 101 platform people have been discussing certificates. Stefano Mirti, onde of the instructors, commented like this on Facebook, Saturday 17th:

"It is nice to follow your conversation about evaluation, certificates.
The reason why we haven't been clear on the subject is related to the overall Iversity policy. We need an input from them, some kind of general rule for all the courses.
We are a course in a broader system. Evaluation and certificates should be addressed within a common frame.
Without common frame, not easy for us to go ahead.
Anyway, we are doing Design 1o1 as a program within Abadir Fine Art Academy.
An institution that is recognized by Italian Government and EU.Providing real credits and all the official papers we might need.
Regarding the certificates, I would imagine that upon student request we could have different certificates.
A. Certificate of Participation (for people who went through the course and submitted at least 25% of assignements).B. Certificate of Completion (for people who went through the course and submitted at least 75% of assignements).C. Certificate of Devotion (for people who went through the course and submitted the whole 100% of assignements).
Then, we could have a special feedback, some kind of an assesment on the student work (the previous regards "quantity", this second would refer to "quality").Two paragraphs of thoughts referred to the specific student's work.
Quizzes, will not intesect evaluation and certificates."

To be honest I have done several courses or training that gave me zero tools to work or that add almost zero to my knowledge. Yet I have a pretty signed paper from the organization/school I attended. So sometimes a certificate means nothing. You might say that it was my fault I did not learn anything. Who am I to fight you back on that? In my defense I must say that to learn about things that interest me is something that I really enjoy. So I do not enroll in courses lightly. Those were poorly organized and I was not the only one who complained about it at the time.

This last weekend I was so tired and so disenchanted with everything that leaving the course crossed my mind several times. I am not doing Design101 to get the certificate at the end. I enrolled because it's an area of knowledge I enjoy. I was expecting to learn things. We can learn by ourselves but when we have a hand that can guides us it's better. It's a guide but the work to make the best out of that guidance remains ours. Am I learning knew things? Yes, I am. But Design101 is taking time from me that I don't have! In order to compensate that I have to make some adjustments to my routine. Or it will be hard - the course is long. You have to work on it everyday. I did some of the homeworks in a hurry and I did not like the outcome.In fact I prefer to read and watch the videos mentioned in the letter than doing the tasks. But I realized this is just because of time constraint. This last week I created a notebook that I can use. It took more than one hour, in fact it took me all night! My problem with tasks and everything is that I know that I must do one each day. If I let it pile I will never do it. It will go out of control.

Reading about those certificates I some how became extra motivated. Why not working for a Certificate of Devotion? That would be nice. In fact I am discovering and learning awesome things about people, places, things. Wouldn't it be great if I got 100% of the assignments? We shall see.