Basic provider: A provider authorized to offer face-to-face continuing education courses in one AIA designated region. Basic providers are not eligible to offer distance learning.
Regional provider: A provider authorized to offer face-to-face continuing education courses in two AIA designated regions. Regional providers are not eligible to offer distance learning.
Passport provider: A provider authorized to offer face-to-face and distance learning courses nationally and internationally.
Professional provider: A provider authorized to offer face-to-face and distance learning nationally and internationally. This provider category is reserved for academic institutions, government agencies, and nonprofit associations.
Platform provider: An umbrella provider that charges other companies or organizations a service fee for developing, maintaining, or hosting their online continuing education courses. A platform provider takes responsibility (on behalf of the companies or organizations it serves) for adhering to ALL CES guidelines, which include registering courses, reporting participant credit, and ALL record keeping. A platform provider is authorized to offer their own branded face-to-face and distance learning courses nationally and internationally.
Architecture firm provider: A provider that is an architecture firm in which a principal or owner is an AIA member. In addition, there are two types of architecture firm providers (internal and external).