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The CE Course module lets you manage Continuing Education (CE) courses for associations, colleges, universities and other organizations including tracking credits or points for each course attendee.

You can classify the courses in many different ways: subject, category, instructor, location or fee type.

There also portals that students and instructors use to find information they need. Read more about using CE Courses portals.

Express Actions like applying credits in bulk and marking CE Course Attendance in bulk are also very useful.

First, set up your CE Courses module in the Setup panel.

You can switch various options on and off within the module, depending on what type of courses you're setting up. Once you enable these (or remove them) and select "Save", they'll appear (or be removed from) the module setup. Read more detail on each one below.

The optional tabs are:

Default Certificate - you can choose either the Certificate of Attendance or Certificate of Achievement, or another document. These documents can be found and edited in the Reporting panel (in CE Courses).

Just as with other modules, you can define CE Course-specific payment and cancellation policies and schedules. You can also override or adjust these for individual courses. Read more about Payment and Cancellation policies.

Take time to plan how you'll organize your course structure. You have 3 levels of classification to work with:

This top-level category is for your most broad categories. Add the name of your new Classification Type, and press Save.

For example, you might group classifications into types based on characteristics such as level (basic, intermediate, advanced).

You might choose to also add a type for to group courses by delivery method (online, in-person).

Structure your courses however suits you best.

Enter the name of your new Classification, select your pre-defined Classification Type, and press Save.

(You can only choose one "type" for each Classification; each Classification MUST have a Type.)

Continuing our example above, let's say you created a number of Advanced Classifications, selecting "Advanced" Classification Type for all of them:

Advanced Early Education
​Advanced Aged Care
​Advanced Project Management

Below each of these, you might create Sub Classifications: Semester One and Semester Two, for example.

Sub Classifications are optional.

You could go on to create separate classifications for delivery methods - for example, selecting the "Online" Classification Type for all of these:

Once you create a course (see below) you can add multiple classifications to it, and these can include sub classifications.

Again, following the example, if you create a course called "Cognitive Development in Preschoolers", you can:

- Add the Advanced Early Education Classification
- Add the Advanced Early Education - Sub Classification Semester One (or not)
- Again add Advanced Early Education and then a second Sub Classification of Semester Two if you want to offer this course in both semesters.

Then you can ALSO add the classifications "Asia Pacific Online" and "EMEA Online".

Students searching for this course will be able to see these classifications and sub classifications.

You can define both internal and external CE Courses here.

When creating a new course, some fields are mandatory and others are optional.

Classifications are like tags you can add to a course to help categorize it.

Press Add Classification, then specify the Classification Type, Classification, and (optionally) Sub Classification.

Enter descriptive text to be displayed on the CE Web Portal or registration site. Enter as many lines as you need; the input box will expand.

This tab allows you to create a database of instructors. You can either create a New Contact and enter the details directly, or link to an existing contact already in your database. You can see name, organization, and notes on each instructor.

If enabled in the Payment and Cancellation section of CE Course setup, these tabs will be visible.

You can choose to either use the defaults you created for all CE courses, or set custom policies just for this course.

Read more about Payment and Cancellation policies.

This is where you can set up the specific itinerary details for the course. This free-form text field can capture itinerary details such as transportation, location, dress codes, and more.

Tip: The itinerary details can be merged into Merge Docs for additional information that you can communicate to the attendee.

Under Advanced, you can select to record grades and/or scores for this course.

You may have hundreds, or even thousands of courses set up in the CE module - how can you quickly locate the ones you want?

Whenever you see "Search to select a course", press the Search button. Enter into the search box any detail about the course, to look through Course Name, Unique Code, Master Course Code, and Series Code, and return any courses that contain your search term in any of these fields.

You don't need to type in the complete code or name; just part of it will return all matching courses.

Check the boxes next to the courses you want, and click Open. All selected courses will now appear in the left-hand panel, for easy selection.

If you don't see the results you expect, check the Course Dates in the Search window as these are part of your search criteria.

If you want people to pay for these courses, and to be able to offer discount codes, you must create at least one Fee Type. You'll also need Fee Types to add courses to a registration site.

The Credits section lets you name (define) a type of credit that can be earned. You just enter a name, and press Save. You don't enter the Credit Hours here; this is done when the Credit Type is applied to a Course (see above) or Attendee (in the Attendee's contact record, under CE Credits).

Credits can also be applied in bulk, using the Apply CE Credits tool in Express Actions

You can disable any credits that are no longer used. You wouldn't delete these as they may still be applied to previous classes, but disabling them will prevent them from being used for all courses moving forward.

This is where you pre-configure all Locations you can add when you are setting up your courses.

Just enter the name, and press Save.

You can (optionally) enter a comment to help describe the location better.

You can choose to nominate a Set Amount off Course Fee – a fixed amount
OR
Percentage off Course Fee – a percentage amount

You can also choose dates when the discount is available, Course Fee Types it can be applied to, and more,

Read more about setting up discount codes.