What a completion record looks like

Completion record

Name

Sample learner

Course

Meta Ads Manager Foundations — build a campaign that is ready to switch on, without spending anything

Completed

8 November 2026

Project

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Skills demonstrated

Opening Meta Ads Manager with your own account and reading on its billing page that it cannot spend · Starting a Traffic campaign from a written plan, choosing the buying type and objective, and telling a draft from a published campaign · Setting a campaign's budget level and special-category answer, and an ad set's conversion location, performance goal and daily budget · Targeting places by name with their regions, removing what the builder put there on its own, excluding places, and telling a namesake apart · Setting an age range as an audience control rather than a suggestion, and knowing the difference · Choosing placements by hand and turning the automatic placements off, with the reason · Building a single-image ad from a copy file and a picture chosen by its shape, shortening a line the feed would cut and rewriting one the standards refuse · Reading an ad's preview against its fields · Duplicating an ad set inside its campaign and changing only what the second area needs · Reading the Campaigns, Ad sets and Ads tables as a checklist, working out a weekly ceiling by Meta's rule, and handing a draft over for approval without publishing it

What was built

One draft Traffic campaign in the learner's own ad account with no payment method and nothing published: buying type, objective, budget level and special-category answer from a written plan; two ad sets, each with a daily budget, a performance goal, an audience of named places with one namesake told apart and places kept out, an age range set as a control, and placements chosen by hand; a single-image ad in each with the picture chosen by shape and the copy file's over-long and shouting lines replaced; the second ad set made by duplication; the table read back as a checklist and the draft renamed for approval. Four hundred guided minutes on the first firm, then two hundred and fifteen independent minutes building the same thing from a brief for a second, in the same account.

The 6 sessions, and when each was completed on their own

Each session was completed twice: once with step-by-step guidance on one company’s data, then on a second company’s data from a brief, with guidance only when asked. Every check passed on both. Alongrail records the sessions, the checks and the dates; the dashboard itself is the learner’s own, hosted where they chose.