Earn College Credit by Passing Vendor Certification Exams

Earn college credit by passing vendor Certification Exams

The American Council on Education’s College Credit Recommendation Service (CREDIT) is designed to connect workplace learning such as that offered by Ledet Training with colleges and universities by helping adults gain access to academic credit for courses and exams taken outside the traditional classroom.

The American Council on Education partners with Microsoft, Pearson, Certiport and other organizations that Ledet Training partners with to have some courses that have associated certifications exams recognized by ACE partner universities and higher education institutions for college credit. The ACE Student Resource Center has staff on call to answer questions about obtaining ACE credit recommendations for corporate training, creating and ordering your ACE transcript, and applying credit recommendations towards transfer credit at a college or university.

At some institutions, the appropriate term for receiving credit under this program is called Credit For Prior Learning. Students may need to research this option at their university.

• Credit For Prior Learning goes by different names at different universities: some examples of what to search for at your university include prior learning assessment, experiential learning, alternative credit, advanced standing.
• Credit For Prior Learning may have different meanings and options: credit by exam, evaluation of workplace training, individualized assessments, portfolio, just to name a few.
• At different universities, Credit For Prior Learning may be housed in different areas: transfer/advising departments, adult learner/prior learning assessment programs, and veterans’ programs are some examples. 
• Ultimately the decision as to whether or not to accept ACE Credit recommendations is up to your university. Typically the decision is made by the department chair for the degree program you are pursuing.

What courses and exams are included?

The latest list of available Microsoft related college credit recommendations through Microsoft’s relationship with ACE is available at http://www2.acenet.edu/credit/?fuseaction=browse.getOrganizationDetail&FICE=1006810

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The latest list of available Adobe related college credit recommendations through Certiport’s relationship with ACE is available at http://www2.acenet.edu/credit/?fuseaction=browse.getOrganizationDetail&FICE=300514

As of July 2016, these included

To learn more about the number of credits possible for each of these exams (most are worth 2-3 credits) as well as the certifications that are eligible for credit, visit:

http://www2.acenet.edu/credit/?fuseaction=browse.getOrganizationDetail&FICE=1006810

How does it work?
If you are attending or planning to attend college, contact the admissions office to see if they will award credit for an exam (or certification) that you have taken or are planning to take. A list of univerisities that are partnered with ACE CREDIT - College and University Network   can be found on the ACE site, and most recognize the exams and certifications for the same number of credits as suggested through the review process, but the decision and the number of credits remains at the discretion of the university. 

To learn if your university is on the list, visit: http://www2.acenet.edu/CREDITCollegeNetwork/

Here are links to list of universities on this list which are located near our primary Ledet Training centers:

• Georgia ACE Member Universities  
• Chicago
• Denver
• Houston
• San Diego
• Washington DC

If your university recognize vendor certifications and exams for credit, then you can request a transcript from ACE that will be sent to your college.

https://www2.acenet.edu/credit/?fuseaction=transcripts.main

There is more information for those attempting to achieve college credit based on ACE CREDIT recommendations at the American Council on Educations Student Resource Center. The ACE website has a free webinar on the subject entitled How CREDIT Works For You: Student Spotlight.

For university administrators seeking more information and examples of this program, see Best Practices: Credit for Prior Learning on the ACE website. ACE also offers the College and University Partnerships Webinar Series on Credit for Prior Learning.

Disclaimer

Ledet Training is exclusively a business oriented services company offering commercial services to corporate, government and organizational clients who are responsible for all financial obligations associated with the short format seminars and workshops Ledet Training offers to their employees who are typically practicing professionals employed by those organizations. Ledet Training does not solicit or intentionally market to college students or career seekers. The services offered by Ledet Training are not intended to prepare clients for new careers or licensure as Ledet Training does not test students or otherwise validate students successful completion of any requirements associated with any career or licensure. 

Ledet Training is not an academic institution, a secondary or postsecondary educational institution, a career school, a college, a university, a higher education institution, a proprietary school, occupational ischool or an educational institution of any kind. Ledet Training does not issue diplomas or similar documents, grant degrees, issue certifications or offer certificate programs, or any other type of degree, degree program or certificate program, nor can it issue academic credit for any course of study. Ledet training does not test class participants and there is therefore no way to “graduate” from Ledet Training. 

Ledet Training is not accredited by any accrediting agency including the American Council on Education. All authorizations, certifications, and credentials Ledet Training holds are granted solely by major individual commercial software vendors (such as Adobe Systems, Autodesk and Microsoft) and are intended for commercial use only and directed toward practicing professionals whose employer is paying for their participation in Ledet Training workshops.

Ledet Training does not provide or accept any sort of student loans or federal or state funds and does not participate in either state or federally funded student financial aid programs. Ledet Training does not provide academic advisement or financial advisement to students and neither this information or any information in this catalog should be considered academic advice. Anyone seeking college credit is urged to seek professional advice from their academic institution and/or the American Council on Education.

The ACE Credit program is a relationship directly between the commercial software vendors that Ledet Training partners with and the American Council on Education and is based solely and exclusively on these software vendors official certification programs. Attendance of Ledet Training events is not required in order to participate in these programs.

All vendor managed certifications mentioned in this catalog are granted and managed solely and exclusively by the software vendor or organization issuing those certifications and attendance of Ledet Training courses is not required for those programs. All exams and certification requirements are handled by those issuing organizations or their licensed third party proctoring services such as Certiport. Ledet Training does not award educational credentials of any kind and the sole purpose of Ledet Training’s vendor authorized training services is review or preparation for the software vendor delivered and managed certification examinations. Nothing in this page or in this catalog is intended to claim or imply otherwise.