Maintaining Your Authorization

As a member of the Authorized Training Program, meeting annual requirements and paying annual renewal fees is necessary to maintain your authorization. Failure to meet program criteria may cause you to be terminated from the program.

Annual Requirements

For Authorized Instructors, annual requirements can be a minimum number of students taught and/or a minimum number of courses taught. It depends on the authorization.

Authorized Partner Education Centers (APECs) must have an ESRI Authorized Instructor on staff or have access to an ESRI Authorized Instructor to teach ESRI-authorized classes, offer at least three different ATP courses, teach at least eight classes per year as well as maintain the facility requirements.

Authorization Renewal Fees

Annual renewal fees are due upon completion of the first year of authorization and each year thereafter. All instructors/APECS in good standing will receive a quote approximately 60 days before the end of their anniversary year. An anniversary year refers to the 12-month cycle ATP uses to determine your eligibility requirements. Your anniversary year begins on the date your agreements are executed by our legal department.

The annual authorization renewal fee covers free software upgrades of instructor materials and program support from ATP.

If annual fees are not paid within the time specified, authorizations will be automatically deactivated.

Program Termination

Reasons for termination include, but are not limited to

Authorized Instructors

• Failure to teach the required number of classes/students.
• Failure to provide a new coursebook to each student.
• Failure to teach the entire contents of the course, including exercises, or modification of course materials without ESRI's prior permission.
• Failure to provide a signed ESRI certificate to each student who successfully completes a class. Certificates must include, at a minimum, the student's name, course name, course version, authorized instructor signature, and name of authorized instructor's affiliated organization (if any).

Authorized Partner Education Centers

• Failure to host the required number of classes within three authorizations.
• Failure to have an authorized instructor teach ESRI-authorized classes.

To reactivate your authorization, please reapply to the program by submitting a prequalification questionnaire. Upon approval, you will be required to take the exam and pay all applicable fees.