MARYLAND REALTOR® 24 February | March 2013
Maryland Real Estate Commission News K atherine C onnelly
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Commission Kicks Off Online CE Record Keeping
s of January 1, 2013, continuing education providers are required to upload every licensee’s course participation data directly to the Commission within 14 days of the class. When the Commission receives notice from an education provider that a licensee has earned credit for taking a CE class, we will automatically send an email informing the licensee that credit was earned and recorded by the Commission. The notification includes the name of the provider, course name and date, CE category and number of credit hours. PLEASE NOTE: You will receive a separate email for each class, even if taken on the same day at the same school. We expect that this new CE data bank will be an improvement over the random audit system the Commission previously relied upon, and will allow us to ensure that every Maryland real estate licensee has completed the education required by law. Licensees are no longer required to retain original course completion certificates for classes taken after January 1, 2013. However, you are expected to ensure that the Commission has your current email address so that we may send you the automated course completion notices. We recommend that you monitor the Commission’s database to ensure you are credited for the courses you take. You can access the CE web portal, at https://www. dllr.state.md.us/cgi-bin/ElectronicLicensing/RE/CE/ CEquery1.cgi to verify your individual CE records. Please remember that not all of your classes prior
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to January 1, 2013 will be on the website, as the requirement was not in effect before that date. Use your current electronic licensing user identification and password to access your CE record. We recommend checking the database periodically to ensure its accuracy. The Commission will eventually link the electronic license renewal system to the digital CE records, but it will take four years to gather sufficient CE participation data to complete the transition, as licensees need only take their agency and or supervision courses once every fourth year. CE course providers are no longer required to provide licensees with paper CE certificates as of January 1, 2013. Providers may voluntarily issue course completion certificates and licensees may retain the certificates in their personal files as a back up CE record. During the transition period, the Commission will conduct random CE audits for CE taken prior to January 1, 2013. We expect to entirely discontinue the random audits by the end of 2014. If you have questions about CE information that has been uploaded, please contact the school where you took the class. The Real Estate Commission does not load the information and therefore cannot correct any errors. Katherine Connelly is the Executive Director of the Maryland Real Estate Commission. If you have other questions regarding the digital CE record system or any other matter concerning your Maryland real estate license at contact her at kconnelly@dllr.state.md.us or visit http://www.dllr.state.md.us/license/mrec