Where can I take ACE courses other than Skillport?

2016-09-02T07:08:02-04:00

I am trying to take courses to get my associates and later bachelors but the ACE courses on Skill-port are not exactly relevant to the degree I am pursuing.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 2 at 2016 7:26 AM

2016-09-02T07:26:12-04:00

Some courses could fill electives.
JKO
ATRRS / ALMS
CLEP
Army Logistics University

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Response by Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS made Sep 2 at 2016 7:31 AM

2016-09-02T07:31:39-04:00

Base education. CLEP (3-6 lower level), DANTES (3 lower or upper level), Excelsior (3 lower or upper level). Exam based.

Marine Corps Distance Education (Formerly MCI). I don't know the current process, but several offer ACE credits. 1-4 correspondence exam based, now online.

Community College of the Air Force. I'm not familiar with current format.

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 4 at 2016 7:12 PM

2016-09-04T19:12:53-04:00

Short answer:
ALMS.

Long answer:
There are two categories of ACE credit in their own respective "guides":

1. The ACE National Guide and the ACE Military Guide. The ACE National Guide "contains ACE credit recommendations for formal courses or examinations offered by various organizations, from businesses and unions to the government and military". Usually -but not always- civilian courses, although quite a few DoD offerings are on this list.

2. The ACE Military Guide is a bit different since it contains credit recommendations for certain courses and for MOSs at specific skill levels. Note: 35N10 (your MOS and skill level) does not earn any ACE credit recommendations. The ACE Military Guide is for the traditional military courses (resident and online), such as (from the Army side) BCT, PLDC/WLC/BLC, ALC, SLC, Airborne, et al. The military courses covered by the ACE National Guide are predominantly online/distance offerings offered outside of NCOES, for example. You can find some/few/minimal online/distance courses on the ACE Military Guide. There are more options in the ACE National Guide.

Take a look at the ACE National Guide. (Link to ACE National Guide: http://www2.acenet.edu/credit/?fuseaction=browse.main

Many of these courses are free, most are not. For example, look under "U" for the “U.S. Army Defense Ammunition Center, Training Directorate”. You can take most of those on ALMS. They're free. The credits you earn don't go on your JST though. They go on your civilian ACE transcript, which isn't free. (Link to ACE Registry and Transcript System: https://www2.acenet.edu/credit/?fuseaction=transcripts.main)

The majority of the free online courses you can take will not go on your JST (free), they will go on your civilian ACE transcript. Why? Because education is a profitable business. Using free ACE credits and paying for the transcript is still astronomically cheaper and quicker than most actual college courses.

Ultimately you will have to consider the school to which you plan to transfer these credits. The courses in the two guides don’t earn you “credits” per se. They earn you “ACE credit recommendations”. If the school does not have a liberal transfer policy you might be spinning your wheels as they might not accept the credit recommendation. I recommend contacting Cochise College and asking them if they have a list of ACE credit recommendations that they usually accept. The staff at Cochise College has always answered my questions and have never left me waiting beyond any reasonable limit.

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