This article will step you through how to set up a super-simple continuing education program in GrowthZone. This setup makes the following assumptions:

• No customization of program or component certificates (here are instructions, but we won't cover them in this article!)
• No fees being charged
• No objectives being used
• No categories being used
• No prerequisites being used
• No Terms & Conditions applied
• No need to track "completion" of the "certification"; only accumulated hours/credits

In essence, we are setting up the ability to track and report on accumulated hours/credits from components. That's it.

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• Step 1: Create the certification "program". The program serves as the "bucket" that all the components will be collected in.
• Step 2: Set the certification program as default in the Continuing Education General Settings.
• Step 3: Create Components. You can do this either by creating them in the Continuing Education module, or by adding components to events on-the-fly.
• Step 4: If you create components in the Continuing Education module in advance, you will need to add those components to events as needed.

• Step 5: Check in your event attendees and/or mark them as attended.

Once the attendee is marked as attended, the credits/hours will be recorded in the certification and any progress will be visible to the member via the Info Hub (if enabled).

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• Set Up Continuing Education Certificates