Certification Maintenance

Earn AICP Certification Maintenance credits by attending sessions, mobile workshops, training workshops, and other conference activities. Learn where to find the number of credits for each session and how to track them at the conference.

• Earning CM Credits
• Earning 12.5 CM Remotely
• Claiming Credit for Conference Educational Events
• Scan in Your Credits with a Mobile Device
• Ethics and Law Credits at Conference
• Continuing Legal Education (CLE) and Continuing Education (CEU)

Most sessions at the conference award CM credit. You can find out how many credits are available by clicking the titles of sessions and viewing the number of credits (if available) on the session detail page.

Please look for the CM logo throughout the conference webpages and in the preliminary and final printed programs. The CM logo (for example: CM |1.5) will indicate how many CM credits you will earn for each activity. If the activity qualifies for the required ethics or law credit, you will see one of these symbols: or .

It is important for you to track your eligible credits by viewing your schedule in the list or calendar view. Total eligible credits are listed at the top of the page. After the conference, APA will not have a way to provide a list of sessions you attended.

Almost all sessions, mobile workshops, training workshops, GIS workshops, technology showcase sessions, facilitated discussions, and orientation tours are eligible for credit (look for the CM logo).

Please note that the following are not eligible for CM credits: Poster sessions, local host committee social events, planning commissioner and student programs, some facilitated discussions, meetings, and Vega tours.

Note: To earn CM credit you must attend the entire activity; partial credit is not available. Don't forget to claim CM credits for all sessions you attend. Please remember that the sessions you attend will not be added to your log, nor will you receive CM credit for them, until you rate and confirm your attendance at each one individually.

Claiming Credit for Conference Educational Events

Keep track of the sessions and events you attend. Computers are available in the Exhibit Hall at the APA Pavilion for you to use to log your credits. Staff are available to assist throughout the conference. Or, after the conference, go online and log your credits. Go to www.planning.org/cm/.

To claim your credits, you will select the education event (session, etc.) and rate the activities and verify your attendance. You will not receive credit for these activities unless you do this.

To earn CM credit, you must attend the entire activity. You will not be able to earn CM credit for more than one concurrent session.

APA staff will be on hand to answer your questions in the AICP booth in the APA Pavilion in the exhibit hall. You can also get a tutorial on logging CM credits at the AICP booth.

Please Remember: You retain ultimate control of your personal CM log. You will be able to add and delete sessions in your log.

Scan in Your Credits with a Mobile Device

AICP members may choose to record their event attendance and assessment this year with a mobile device. APA will provide scannable bar codes (QR codes) for scanning in events to your CM log at each event that offers CM credit.

Before the conference

• Download a free "QR code reader" from your smartphone service provider's app store.
  
  
  • Blackberry users: For login compatibility, also go to the Opera website and download its free browse for your mobile device. Or download it from your smartphone — http://m.opera.com/
• Launch the app and scan the QR code image. Once scanned you will be directed to the home page of APA's new mobile website.
• Bookmark that page in your smartphone's web browser.

You are now all set for logging your CM credits from the National Planning Conference.

To use the code at conference, look for the QR sheet in the back of the session or workshop room. Follow the instructions and record your CM credit. Students will make the sheets available at the end of the sessions.

You will find instructions and a recording log in your registration bag.

The QR code is available only for AICP CM. If you wish to obtain other available CEU credits, you will not use the QR code, rather, you will use the sign-in sheets provided in the session. Look for the student handling those sign-in and evaluation forms.

Earning 12.5 CM Remotely

Two short courses will be offered at the 2011 National Planning Conference and made available online as a webinar. CM |6.25 (each webinar)

Evidence-Based Sustainability

Retrofitting Streets and Corridors

Ethics and Law Credits at Conference

The conference is a great place to fulfill the ethics and law CM requirements.  There are sessions available on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday to earn your ethics and legal credits — so select the sessions that fit your needs.

CM Law

Public Health, Planning, and the Constitution (S460)

Sunday, 10:30 a.m.-Noon
CM |1.5 

Intergovernmental Regulation in Planning (S588)

Monday, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
CM |1.5 

Courts and Federal Rules: APA in Action (S592)

Tuesday, 7:15–8:45 a.m.
CM |1.5 

CM Ethics

The Ethics of Changing Jobs (S408)

Saturday, 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
CM |1.5 

Two Sides of Ethical Green (S476)

Sunday, 12:45–2:30 p.m.
CM |1.5 

Ethics Challenges in Collaboration (S587)

Monday, 5:30–7:00 p.m.
CM |1.5 

Continuing Legal Education (CLE) and Continuing Education (CEU)

Continuing Education Units (CEU) and Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits can be claimed for selected sessions at the National Planning Conference. Credit is claimed by:

1. Signing the sign-in sheets in the session room.
2. Completing and returning the evaluation form that is distributed in the session rooms or completing the organization's online evaluation.
3. Picking up a certificate. You may also be required to pick up the certificate of attendance, which you will keep.

Students will have these materials available in the session rooms. Make certain you return evaluations and the sign-in sheet to the students.

APA will maintain the record of the sign-in sheets and evaluations for two to six years as required.