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Participation Benefits
While your community college is unique with its own formal academia goals, one thing you share with other schools is your desire to improve the quality of life and employability of individuals through your post-secondary education programs, training, and services.
A way to accomplish this is to become a Certiport Center (authorized testing center) and offer global certification standard programs to prepare students for a career. Programs, such as Microsoft® Office Specialist Certification or Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC³), allow your students to demonstrate their confidence, to achieve more in less time, and to increase their credibility.
Offering these certifications to your students provides an opportunity for them to achieve a portable, globally recognized credential that proves their abilities as productive users of the tested software applications. Your students will appreciate the opportunity to gain better employment and be more efficient employees.
Additional benefits to offering certification include:
 Value-add Program — The ability to attract new trainees by promoting certification as a value-add program
College Credit — Potential college credit for each Office Specialist certification (as well as IC³ certification) through the American Council on Education (ACE) Credit by Examination program
Convenience of On-site Testing — Offer certification and bypass the need to travel to another organization's location
Online Transcripts — Verify student certifications through Certiport's Digital Transcript service
Increased Revenue — Certiport provides marketing and other sales support to help Centers increase sales of certification exams
Instructor Credibility — Improved instructor credibility through required certification
Recognized Certifications — The capability to provide comprehensive, recognized certification programs
Job Preparation — Provide corporations with job candidates who can increase productivity and quality
Certiport Expertise — Certiport has been the exclusive developer and administrator of the Office Specialist program for Microsoft Corporation since 1998; IC³ developer and administrator since 2001
Low Cost — Certiport certification exams are easy to administer because they are based on technology that lowers exam administration costs and overhead. If you ever need help, Certiport provides Centers 24-hour customer service and technical support (Monday - Friday)
Customer Satisfaction — Certiport technology provides Centers the ability to offer certification candidates instant, standardized validation of computer knowledge and skills
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American Council on Education (ACE) college credit recommendations
