Certificates vanish when course is deleted

[emmarichardson]

I was hoping to clear out some old courses but discovered that when I delete a course all the certificates are deleted too. While this makes sense (it is a course activity after all), it would be beneficial to have the option to be able retain the certificates issued to students after the deletion of a course. So I am guessing this is a feature request!

[fulldecent]

I'm not sure yet if this features request will be accepted in the project.

But FYI, I have a workaround in our fork where we are able to generate public URL for each certificate. (Will send PR soon.)

We are now able to use a script to loop through the certificates and download them for safekeeping with cURL.