Can I host the course on my website?
Yes, you can host the course on your website. If you choose this option, we strongly recommend linking to our site for the exam so we can combine the course log in a single database. If you choose to host the course on your website only, you must be an education provider to offer continuing education credits for the AIA and the LEED AP Credential Maintenance Program (CMP).

How many architects visit the website?
Several hundred design professionals visit GreenCE.com each day. We have over 90,000 registered users who take our courses annually.

Will architects specify my product?
Although a course can be a marketing tool, the objective is to teach design professionals about a product, a technology or an installation. The primary purpose is not to convince design professionals to specify your product. We add specification links for convenience in case a design professional wants to consider specifying one of the products he/she learns about. We promote these as continuing education opportunities that often evolve to be design tools.

What is the course development and hosting procedure?
The procedure is simple.
1. Establish learning objectives
2. Design graphics
3. Create an exam
We seek your creative input at each design phase.

What do I get for the development fee and the hosting fee?
For the development fee, we create an AIA continuing education course. We offer several levels to meet budget restrictions and your specific requirements.

The hosting fee includes processing the credits through the AIA, offering printable certificates for non-AIA members state requirements, promoting the CE course to over 90,000 architects in our database, handing out brochures with the online course and face to face presentations in over 50 markets in the U.S., providing online reports that your company can access 24 hours a day, and providing quality technical support for designers taking the courses.

How do you inform architects about my course?
We promote the online course library in face to face presentations, emails, tradeshows, and online ads.

Face-to-face: We visit over 1200 design firms every year in 50 different markets. During our presentations we discuss the courses and give the architects brochures describing the courses. In addition, we also hand out the RBA Updater, a weekly periodical that has course listings and is distributed to architects, engineers, and interior designers in the office. We host seminars each year with AIA staff to teach design professionals about continuing education options.
Email: Upon the course completion, we send an email to 90,000 architects to promote the new course. We also send quarterly emails advertising the course library with emphasis on new arrivals. Additionally, we send traditional mailers, flyers and postcards advertising the course library.

Online: We advertise on several websites including the AIA Continuing Education website, USGBC website, 4 Specs.com, AIA chapter newsletters, and on various other sponsor sites.

Why do I want you to host my course instead of hosting or building it myself?
We can streamline course development and approval. We are a USGBC Education Provider. We're experienced in developing AIA and LEED AP CMP continuing education courses and your staff rarely has time to generate and manage the courses. We're the design professionals who educate design professionals. We speak the language and we offer an array of complementary consulting services in the market you desire.

Are other formats available?
Yes, other formats are available. Some clients request a CD version of their course to supplement their online course. We can also deliver face-to-face presentations. Most manufacturers who need to develop a relationship with the design community try to give face-to-face presentations about their specific product. However, if your company lacks the people or know-how, we can target specific cities and deliver face-to-face presentations.

How can I learn to develop and host my own course?
If you want to develop and host a course, attend one of our quarterly "How To" seminars where we teach manufacturers how to develop courses, how to talk to architects and how to tailor your product literature for architect's needs.

What are the advantages of online continuing education?
The advantages for manufacturers are greater exposure to more design professionals for a fraction of the cost of your typical brown bag seminars. You also get name brand recognition. You have an inexpensive channel to distribute information about a new product. For design professionals, the advantage is free, convenient, informative continuing education available 24/7 online.

How do I become an AIA provider?
To become an AIA provider, you need to choose what level you prefer. Providership is available as a basic provider (regional), passport provider and cornerstone partner (executive level). Contact AIA to ask for provider information or request an application.
Once you complete your application, pay your annual provider fee and get your first program approved, you're on your way to being an AIA provider. The most important part of providership is prompt processing of architect's credits.

Become an Education Provider
We take our reporting seriously and we report weekly. You might discover that the AIA transcript office doesn't process with the same urgency. They process thousands of credits every week and it is difficult for them to stay on schedule, but the staff is extremely helpful when you call for status or assistance. Our advice is to make friends with your transcript office.

How do I get started?
To get started, download our course development form. Send us a course for review. We'll assess the content of a course and determine whether we need to modify the content or publish it in context. We provide a course quote and contract. Upon receipt of your down payment and signed contract, we'll build a course in 3 phases. The script phase, the graphic phase and the test phase.

Script phase: We identify learning objectives. This is a text only review. We solicit your feedback to determine whether we're proceeding as you expected.

Graphic phase: We design the course graphic format and solicit your feedback to determine whether you want to match your website graphics, printed graphics or some alternative.

Test phase: We generate test questions based on the learning modules and solicit your feedback to confirm we're addressing the learning objectives you want to emphasize. Upon acceptance, we begin the second part of our contract, the online hosting contract, usually one year minimum in duration.

How do I renew my contract?
To renew a hosting contract, we offer extended billing. If you want to extend do nothing and we'll automatically renew a contract in 6 month increments. If you prefer a new contract, we will generate a new contract to cover the renewal period.