Education - Questions and Answers

Who must take continuing education?

As a real estate licensee, you are required to track your own continuing education (CE) class certificates for four years. Upon successfully completing a CE credit class, a certificate will be given to you to keep in your personal records. When and if you are audited, the auditor will request CE certificates in order to verify your credit hours. When you take classes at PPAR, your CE is tracked for you! Certificates are awarded at the end of class and also kept in your member file. Need a copy of a certificate for a class you completed at PPAR? Email Verna Dugan to pull a replacement certificate for you should the need arise.

Who is NOT required to complete continuing education?

Licensees renewing an inactive license or converting to inactive status upon renewal are not required to complete Continuing Education

How do I meet the continuing education requirements?

Each active licensed broker must complete the “Annual Commission Update Course” every year(12 hours) during each license period plus electives (12 hours) to total 24 hours of education during their current license period. A licensee may NOT take the same version of the Annual Commission Update course more than once during each year. If an agent fails to take the Annual Commission Update Course in their license period, the Commission requires them to complete the 24 hour “Broker Reactivation” course, OR a licensee may take and pass the state portion of the broker licensing exam during their renewal cycle.

When must continuing education be completed?

All 24 hours of education must be completed before renewing any active license. Licensees are on a full three-year license period now going from January to December of each year; third year will be expiration date. All 24 hours of education need to be completed before December 31st of expiration year. Make sure you know when your license expires to make your education easier to track.

How does a licensee prove completion of continuing education?

Licensees must retain their own file of course completion certificates for at least 4 years. Licensees: DO NOT send certificates to the Real Estate Commission unless you have been audited and requested to do so by them. The Annual Commission Update Course is a yearly requirement for all active licensees. If you fail to complete these courses during each renewal cycle and/or you fail to complete the additional hours of elective continuing education during a renewal period, you may be found delinquent on a continuing education random audit and assessed a fine under the license law. Hours in excess of 24 may not be carried forward into the next license period. Ethics is required every three years by the National Association of REALTORS®. While this course is not required by the Commission to renew your license, you may certainly use CE hours earned from taking the course as elective credits for license renewal if taken during your licensing period. We are now in the current NAR Triennial cycle 7, 2022-2024. All agents need to take an Ethics course any time in 2022, 2023, or 2024 to be compliant with the NAR current Ethics cycle

Do I really need to take the Annual Commission Update Course Each Year?

Yes. The Annual Commission Update Course is a yearly requirement for all licensees with a three-year license. All agents must take the 4-hour class EVERY YEAR. 12 of the 24 hours needed to renew your license will be the Annual Commission Update Course. The Real Estate Commission will have the new yearly Update Courses ready for taking in January. If you prefer to take the Annual Update Course online, WWW.VANED.COM will have the latest version.

If an agent has missed one of the at least three Annual Commission Update Courses in his/her licensing period, the Division of Real Estate will require a 24 hour Broker Reactivation Course be taken. Course contains all 24 hours needed to renew a license, however, course does not include Ethics. Broker Administration course is still available for those wanting to employ agents. Both courses are found online at WWW.VANED.COM. or Colorado Association of REALTORS® CE Anywhere. Please contact the Division of Real Estate if your license has been inactive for over a year at 303-894-2166

Do I need to track my continuing education credits?

When you take your education classes through PPAR, your classes are automatically tracked for you. If you get audited by the Division of Real Estate, simply call PPAR to get a report of the class dates attended at PPAR. The Commission will not accept an education transcript as proof of classes taken. They will require a copy of your certificates as proof of education taken in license period. If you take classes from other entities, you will need to keep a record of the classes taken and have a certificate in your personal file. If you get audited – you will have all the information you need at your finger tips.

The Colorado Real Estate Commission (DORA) & PPAR requires all students attending ZOOM classes, have a camera on the device they are using and that the camera is on during the entire class in order to receive CE credit. If students do not have a camera on their device, perhaps one can be borrowed, otherwise CE credit will not be issued. PPAR must abide by the Commission rules in order to provide CE classes to our membership via ZOOM. Thank you!