How to create bulk certificates for Dance Studios

Olivier Rousseau
2 January 2024 Dance 2 min read

How to create bulk certificates for Dance Studios

In this article, we’ll explore how to design and mass produce dance certificates to recognize student achievement.

We’ll cover:

  1. Design your dance certificate with Canva
  2. Include dancer progress report information with Mailmerge
  3. Share the certificate with dancers (via SMS, email, or mass printing)
  4. How dance certificates can help your studio grow
  5. More tools for Dance Studio Owners

Design your dance certificate with Canva

With Canva, you can create stunning dancer certificates for your dance studio, and Activity Messenger helps you with distribution, personalization, and even mass printing.

Here’s how:

  1. Create Activity Messenger account: Go to certificates and click create (open account here)
  2. Use Canva integration to design your certificate: Use dancer certificate templates in Canva and adapt to showcase your studio’s unique brand.
  3. Personalize Dancer certificates: Use Mailmerge to issue to personalize each certificate in bulk using information from your registration lists or dancer progress reports
  4. Issue Dancer certificates to students: Once your design is complete, it seamlessly integrates with Activity Messenger for further customization.

Personalized Dancer Certificates

Include dancer progress report information with Mailmerge

Canva is great for designs. But you’ll need a tool like Activity Messenger to personalize in mass your dancer certificates. This can be done using mailmerge from either a list or even better from your Dancer progress report.

Create personalized dancer certificates:

When designing your certificates, you’ll need to include placeholder areas that will autofill based on each dancers level, progress and information.

Dancer Certificates using mailmerge

Where to pull dancer information

Dancer Information can be pulled from your dance registration form, an uploade list or an online dancer progress report. Here are a few examples of information Dance studios might include in a certificate:

  • Name of Dance Student
  • Date
  • Dance Teacher
  • Dance School name
  • Recommended Placement
  • Dance type/level

 

📌 Pro Tip: Working with hundreds of dance studios and gymnastics clubs, I have found that issuing personalized bulk certificates to each student helps dance studio owners strike a balance between saving time and maintaining recognition of achievement. Issuing dancer certificates that are personalized for each dance student only takes a few minutes and helps make everyone feel seen.

Share the certificate with dancers (via SMS, email, or mass printing)

Once these certificates are ready, the magic of Activity Messenger truly shines.

Multiple ways to share dancer certificates

You can mass print and hand them out in person, adding an in-person element to your recognition.

However, if you prefer a more modern method, our platform empowers you to send these certificates digitally. Craft an email or SMS that automatically populates with each student’s information.

How to email/SMS dancer certificates to students

📌 Pro Tip: As an operator, I love collecting feedback. Including a dance feedback form with your personalized certificates at the end of the session helps me not only recognize student achievements but also collect feedback on how my teachers are doing.

How dance certificates can help your studio grow

Issuing personalized dance certificates can make a significant contribution to the growth of your studio.

When students feel recognized for their efforts, they are more likely to develop a long-term commitment to your studio.

This not only improves retention rates, but also turns your dancers into ambassadors for your brand.

Many dance studio events encourage your dancers to share their accomplishments online. You could run a fun contest where sharing their certificate on social media with a tag to your studio could win them a free session.

How dance certificates can help your studio grow

📌 Pro Tip: When we switched to an automated end-of-session reminder that included a personalized certificate for each student, we got so much great feedback from parents saying that their kids were so excited to receive the certificates and that they shared them on social media or hung them on the fridge at home for everyone to see. Since we put our logo on the certificate, it gave us amazing exposure and word-of-mouth on social media and in our students’ homes.

More tools for Dance Studio Owners

Now that we looked at how you can create bulk certificates for your dance students, here are a few more ways Activity Messenger can help your dance studio.

Replace your current dance studio software (JackRabbit, DanceStudioPro etc)

Dance Studio Software
Create a dance registration form
Best Dance Management Software

Replace tools like Jotform, SurveyMonkey and Mailchimp for your dance studio

Mailchimp alternative for Dance studios
Dance Recital ticket sale (Tututix Alternative)
SmartWaiver alternative for dance studio
Progress Report for dance students
Dance Instructor Application Form
Start of session reminder for dance class
Attendance tracking for dance studio
SurveyMonkey Alternative for dance studios
Simple Marketing ideas for Dance Classes
Dance quotes and how to use them
AI for Dance Studio Marketing

FAQ from Dance Studio Owners

 

  1. What are the benefits of issuing dancer certificates in bulk for dance studios? It saves time, ensures consistency of design and information, and provides an easy way to celebrate achievement and track individual student progress.
  2. What software or tools are best for creating bulk certificates for dance studios? Adobe Illustrator, Canva, and Microsoft Word are popular choices, and offert template customization. A specialized certificate software like Activity Messenger can help mass print, email or even send by SMS your dancer certificates.
  3. How can I customize dancer certificates while creating them in bulk? Use templates that editable fields for personalization. Then from a list or form, link information using mailmerge to personalize for each dance student.
  4. What key information should be included on a dance studio certificate? Include the student’s name, studio name, class, level, instructor’s name, date, and recommended placement for the next session. You can also include a congratulatory message from the instructor.
  5. Can I integrate student data from my studio management software to create certificates? Yes, most certificate creation tools like Activity Messenger allow integration with Dance studio management software, to import and streamline certificate generation every session.
  6. How can bulk certificate creation be cost-effective for dance studios? By using free or low-cost design tools, reducing or eliminating printing to save costs, and issuing certificates via email.

Written by Olivier Rousseau Olivier is a kids sports programs owner who has been operating for over a decade with locations in Montreal, Quebec city & Ottawa. He also helps Gymnastics Club, Swim Schools and Dance Studios streamline their operations. He is the co-founder of Activity Messenger an online registration platform for the sports & leisure industry.

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