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The AIA's course catalog lists the available continuing education courses offered by the AIA and its providers. This course catalog is available to the public and can be accessed with or without login credentials.
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The Course Catalog displays the full public list of courses offered by AIA providers. Courses are listed in alphanumerical order by Course Name. Courses The courses listed in the Course Catalog will meet all of the below criteria:
- Currently in "Approved" status
- *Belong to an active provider organization who's Subscription End Date is greater than or equal to the Current Date of the Search.
Please note, although the course catalog displays active courses by default, users have the ability to filter their search to find retired and expired courses. All information in the course catalog is taken directly from what was entered for the course in the CES Dashboard. To update information that is showing displayed in the course catalog, make updates to the course itself in CES Dashboard. Please note, although the course catalog displays active courses by default, users have the ability to filter their search to find retired and expired courses.
Sort and Filter
The course information is listed by the following columns: Course Name, Provider Name, Category and Credits. Courses can be sorted in ascending or descending alphanumeric order by Course Name and Provider Name. Courses can be filtered based on: Credit Type, Delivery Type, Categories & Sub-categories, Date Range of Course Offering, and Status.
To filter the search, click on the Filters button to view the filters panel. From this view, select the designated checkbox to the left of the desired option.
For the Credit Type, the selection can be made between LU|Elective or LU|HSW, which includes LU|HSW-SD, courses.
For the Delivery Type, the filter can be set to "On Demand" or "Live". Only one selection can be made at a time.
For the Date Range of Course Offering, the date must be entered through the calendar icon or typed in with the format MM/DD/YYYY.
The start date indicates the session start date. The end date indicates the session end date.
If you enter:
- Only the start date, the return results will render courses that have at least one session who's start date is greater than or equal to the start date entered.
- Only the end date, the return results will render courses that have at least one session who's end date is less than or equal to the end date entered.
- Both the start and end dates, the return results will render courses that have at least one session who's start date and end date are between the dates entered.
- No dates for both the start and end dates, the return results will render based upon the delivery type selection in alphanumerical order.
This feature is disabled when "On Demand" has been selected for the Delivery Type.
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For the Categories & Sub-Categories, there are several categories with related sub-categories to select. This list can be foundin the AIA's CES Provider Manual.
For the Status, as mentioned in the Course Listings section, users can view retired and expired courses by selecting the "Include retired and expired courses" checkbox.
Once the desired filters are selected, the Filters button can be clicked again to close the filter panel and view the resulting filtered list.
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The course search functionality allows you the option to search for your courses or providers by using exact phrasing with at least three or more characters, not to include special characters (i.e. "-", "+", "."). The choice to search for providers or courses can be made by selecting the radio button beside the option of "Search by Course" or "Search by Provider". The Search by Course option is set as the default.
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To select a listed item, hover over the selection highlighted Course Name or Provider Name, and click on it to view more details.
Course
Provider
If choosing a course, the view will display as:
If choosing a provider, the view will display as:
To view all courses offered from a provider, click on the View Courses button.
You will be directed back to the course catalog listings of all courses.
If the search does not find a match according to your search term(s), it will yield the response of "No results found".
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