# Issue with Hugging Face Course Certificate

> Source: <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/issue-with-hugging-face-course-certificate/179492#post_2>
> Published: 2026-09-01 23:23:56+00:00

This looks like a known issue:

The progress-checking Space appears to be failing **server-side before it can actually evaluate your username**, and there is already an [open upstream issue (#247)](https://github.com/huggingface/audio-transformers-course/issues/247) tracking essentially this failure path.

So for this particular error, things like clearing the browser cache, changing browsers, or re-uploading your model are unlikely to help.

The immediate failure is in the public [Check My Progress - Audio Course Space](https://huggingface.co/spaces/MariaK/Check-my-progress-Audio-Course). Its current [source](https://huggingface.co/spaces/MariaK/Check-my-progress-Audio-Course/blob/main/app.py) tries to read the Unit 7 pass roster from `huggingface-course/audio-course-u7-hands-on/usernames.csv`

. That access currently fails, and because the Unit 7 check is not isolated from the rest of the startup path, the exception brings down the whole progress checker.

One small but important qualification: I would describe this as **“the Space can no longer access the Unit 7 roster”**, rather than assuming that the dataset was definitely deleted. Hugging Face’s [ RepositoryNotFoundError documentation](https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub/package_reference/utilities) says the same error can also occur when a repository is private and the current credentials do not have access. From outside the maintainer account, those cases are difficult to distinguish.

The good news is that the official [Audio Course certification rules](https://huggingface.co/learn/audio-course/chapter8/certification) still say:

So if you already know that you satisfy three assignments, it is worth trying the official [Audio Course Certification Space](https://huggingface.co/spaces/MariaK/Audio-Course-Certification) directly. The public progress checker is useful for self-evaluation, but the certification page performs its own checks.

If that certification Space also returns an error, that likely needs maintainer-side attention as well: there are already recent reports from users claiming [3/4 completion](https://huggingface.co/spaces/MariaK/Audio-Course-Certification/discussions/16) and [4/4 completion](https://huggingface.co/spaces/MariaK/Audio-Course-Certification/discussions/17) who were unable to generate a certificate.

A robust fix would probably separate two things:

That second change would help even if the underlying cause turns out to be a token/permission change rather than a deleted repository.

What seems established, and what is still uncertainSo the shortest version is: **your screenshot is consistent with an existing Course-side infrastructure problem rather than something you can fix locally.** The most useful tracking point is [audio-transformers-course issue #247](https://github.com/huggingface/audio-transformers-course/issues/247), and if you already satisfy 3/4 assignments, trying the official certification Space directly is the lowest-cost next step. If that also errors, the remaining path appears to require maintainer-side inspection of the private certification/checking infrastructure.