Certify Skills, Inspire Growth with Tosa Certifications

Tosa certifications give learners a competitive edge by validating technology skills. With 89% of organizations recognizing certified professionals, our proficiency-based approach ensures credentials that matter.

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Certifications That Support Learning and Lifelong Success

Ensure learners master the software that powers every industry

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Office Productivity Certifications

Ensure learners master essential and advanced productivity tools, from everyday office software to business intelligence and automation.

Design & Engineering Certifications

Help learners build creative and technical design skills with industry-standard software from Adobe and Autodesk.

Digital Toolkit Certifications

Build learners’ essential skills for AI-powered productivity, online citizenship, and collaboration.

Code & Web Certifications

Certify learners’ coding and data skills in today’s most in-demand programming languages.

What makes Tosa certifications unique?

Proficiency-Based

With Tosa, every student is certified at their unique skill level. Tosa certifications provide a score out of 1,000 points that corresponds to five levels of skill—Beginner, Basic, Productive, Advanced, and Expert—as well as a diploma or a certificate of completion, depending on the level achieved. Productive, Advanced, and Expert earners also receive a Credly badge upon completion.

Engaging

Adaptive testing increases or decreases the difficulty depending on the candidate's right or wrong answers, pushing every test taker to the true limits of their skill and knowledge. In-application questions ensure your students can apply what they've learned in a real-world environment.

Data-Driven

Easy-to-interpret pre- and post-course assessment reports identify students' current skills, skill gaps, and skill progression.

5 Steps for Certification Success
Step 1

Using a Tosa blueprint, instructors integrate Tosa certifications into their existing content or curriculum and set defined outcomes.

Step 2

Students begin with a formative, pre-course assessment to identify current skill levels. Instructors gather data and adjust lesson plans based on student results.

Step 3

Instructors match courseware in the Isograd Learning Lab to students’ proficiency levels and intended course objectives.

Step 4

Once courseware is completed, students take a summative assessment to verify their skills match the intended proficiency levels. If skill gaps still exist, instructors can assign additional course content.

Step 5

When instructors are satisfied with student progress, certification exams are given. Certification exams are proctored and generally range from 60 to 90 minutes.

Tosa Certification Bundles

Tosa offers credential bundles designed to validate a learner's versatility and proficiency across high-demand software suites like Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, and Adobe Creative Cloud. These stackable credentials help individuals strengthen their career profiles while providing employers with a clear, consolidated view of multiple skills in a single certification. Exams can be taken in any order and typically require around 150 hours of training and experience per exam, depending on prior knowledge.

Skill Development Matrix

Earners receive digital badges via Credly, which can be shared on resumes and professional profiles to showcase their skills to employers in fields like marketing and communication, administration, sales, HR, finance, education, and customer service.

Tosa Certified User for Google Workspace

Tosa Certified User for Google Workspace

This credential verifies a learner's versatility and expertise in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. It's available at two levels:

  • Experienced User: Earned by scoring 551-725 (Productive level) on all three exams.
  • Professional User: Earned by scoring 726+ (Advanced or Expert level) on all three exams.
Tosa Certified User for Microsoft Office

Tosa Certified User for Microsoft Office

This credential verifies a learner's versatility and expertise in a combination of Microsoft applications, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and VBA Excel. It's available at two levels:

  • Experienced User: Earned by scoring 551-725 (Productive level) on Tosa Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
  • Professional User: Earned by scoring 726+ (Advanced or Expert level) on Tosa Microsoft Excel and Word, plus 551+ on any two of PowerPoint, Outlook, or VBA Excel.
Tosa Certified User for Adobe Graphic Design

Tosa Certified User for Adobe Graphic Design

This credential verifies a learner's versatility and expertise in a combination of Adobe applications, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

To qualify for a Tosa Certified User for Adobe Graphic Design certification, candidates must certify at the Advanced level (726+) in the Tosa for Adobe Photoshop exam, plus one of the Tosa for Adobe Illustrator or Tosa for Adobe InDesign exams.

Tosa Certified User for Adobe Visual Design

Tosa Certified User for Adobe Visual Design

This credential verifies a learner's versatility and expertise in Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Pro.

To qualify for a Tosa Certified User for Adobe Visual Design certification, candidates must certify at the Advanced level (726+) in the Tosa for Adobe Premiere Pro and in the Tosa for Adobe Photoshop exams.

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K-12 Education

Prepare your students for a rapidly evolving world. Equip them with essential digital skills for future academic and career success.

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Higher Education

Provide scalable, industry-aligned digital skills assessments, exams, and certifications that prepare your students for the workforce.

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Adult/Workforce Education

Upskill current and new employees or trainees with the digital competencies they need to stay competitive in today's evolving workforce.

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Individuals

It's time to stand out with Tosa certifications, the international standard for measuring digital skills. Prove your expertise to employers with verified credentials.

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"Our goal is to prepare students for their academic future and be career-ready by the time they graduate from high school. Using the Tosa certifications in grades 5 and 6 helps ensure students have the skills to produce high-quality work in an online environment for school and their career of choice."

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