# HubSpot CMS for Marketers Certification

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/hubspot-cms-for-marketers-certification/82741>\
**Category:** HubSpot Academy Support\
**Created:** [June 6, 2023, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/hubspot-cms-for-marketers-certification/82741 "2023-06-06T12:21:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![AJones\_Medexus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@AJones\_Medexus](https://community.hubspot.com/u/AJones_Medexus)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/hubspot-cms-for-marketers-certification/82741/1 "2023-06-06T12:21:29Z")

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Hi,  
I’ve started taking the HubSpot CMS for Marketers certification course, but am slightly confused about a couple of things.  
1. Do I need to sign up for a sandbox account to complete the certification?  
2. I clicked on “Enroll” - is there anything else that needs to be done to sign up? The class isn’t showing up in the “In Progress” list in “My Learning”, though I have gone through a number of the videos.  
3. I went through maybe a quarter of the videos and came to the first certification exercise. I started it and closed it down, intending to come back the next day. When I did, however, it said that I had passed the exercise. I never submitted anything. Should this have been done in the sandbox to gain proper credit?  
I’d really appreciate any help you can give me. I’m more than a little confused at the moment. 🙂  
Thanks and have a great day,  
Amy Jones  
Coordinator, Marketing & Sales  
Medexus Pharma

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**Author:** ![APernell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@APernell](https://community.hubspot.com/u/APernell)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 2:59pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/hubspot-cms-for-marketers-certification/82741/2 "2023-06-06T14:59:15Z")

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Hello [@AJones\_Medexus](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/579921) ,

Thank you for reaching out to the academy community page! I’m happy to help out with this.

1. Do I need to sign up for a sandbox account to complete the certification?

- No, but you have the option to if you don’t want to complete any of the exercises in your portal if you have the correct subscription  
2. I clicked on “Enroll” - is there anything else that needs to be done to sign up? The class isn’t showing up in the “In Progress” list in “My Learning”, though I have gone through a number of the videos.

- No, there shouldn’t be another step to enroll. Can you search for the course or filter to only certifications?  
3. I went through maybe a quarter of the videos and came to the first certification exercise. I started it and closed it down, intending to come back the next day. When I did, however, it said that I had passed the exercise. I never submitted anything. Should this have been done in the sandbox to gain proper credit?

- Not necessarily, you can do this in a sandbox or your regular portal. As long as it is done with the same email it will count towards the same course.

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**Author:** ![tracylin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tracylin](https://community.hubspot.com/u/tracylin)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 6:37am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/hubspot-cms-for-marketers-certification/82741/3 "2023-12-09T06:37:42Z")

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Hi Anissa, I also experienced getting a pass to my exercises I did not mark as complete, should I be concermed of that? Do you grade work no matter it’s submitted or not?

I had another problem with doing exercise for “Optimize Your Website For Search Engines”, the instruction asks me to go to Marketing \> Website \> SEO, but I can only see Website Pages and Blog in there, SEO is not available. do I need to upgrade my free accoount in order to finish my certification? Appreciate your help in advance!