I have over 1,000 hours of Army Correspondence Courses. Will they still count under the new system?
Fortunately, they will still earn promotion points. However, you must complete the entire correspondence course and possess a certificate of completion in order to get the points. Sub-courses on their own will not count for promotion points. I suggest you take a look at your course history on the ATIA website to see how many full courses you have actually completed and determine how many points you will have under the new ststem.
The ATIA website’s address is www.adtdl.army.mil/.
Disclaimer: Though all content posted on AskTOP.net is reviewed by our qualified subject matter experts, you should not make decisions based solely on the information contained in this post. Use information from multiple sources when making important professional decisions. This is not an official government website.
© 2025 AskTOP.net – Leader Development for Army Professionals. All rights reserved.
All materials contained on this site are protected by United States copyright law and may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published, broadcast, or in any way exploited without the prior written permission of Mentor Enterprises, Inc. or in the case of third party materials, the owner of that content. You may not alter or remove any trademark, copyright or other notice from copies of the content.
Comments
Arielle S.
PFC Lawson,
If you are using skillport to do the Army E-learning courses, I suggest doing all the courses listed under “desktop curricula”. They are quite easy and one course doesn’t take long.
PFC LAWSON
Okay, so I know I’m a bit late on replying to this, but the basic idea is, theres no method to the madness of picking which correspondance course to do? Its just random?
Preston
I think PFC Lawson is asking if there is some sort of roadmap they can use to plan which classes to attack first. Some kind of strategy to help prioritize the process.
Do you have any input on this, Mackie?
Mackie
PFC Lawson,
There is no sort of “road map” or “cheat sheet” to the process. You basically shoose on your own which courses you want to complete. Arielle’s suggestion is a route I would personallyt ake aside from taking courses that interest me.
PFC HILL
Look at the details and if it says minutes then it counts but if it says hours then it doesnt
PFC LAWSON
One question,
I am an initial term soldier, and want to start doing correspondence courses. I understand the process of signing up for them, accessing them, and printing the certificate of completion thanks to SFC “Mackie” but I am still left with one thing that confuses me..
How do I know WHAT courses to choose?
If anyone could help me out I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks!
Debra
I have a secondary mos that I have from being prior service, is it possible to get points from that mos since I am now a 92F?
Mackie
Debra,
No it is not. AR 600-8-19, Par 3-44 states:
b. The following courses are not valid for the awarding of promotion points under military education:
(1) Completion of BCT, AIT, and new equipment training.
Preston
A quick link to AR 600-8-19 for reference: http://asktop.net/wp/download/3/r600_8_19.pdf
marcos
As far I can see this message 11-306 is not fair, specially if you are down range, where you cannot have access to WLC and other military schools but the electronic method – ACCP/eLearning -, so many will not be able to get promoted when deployed. Plus if you don’t mk CDR’s list and or honor grad and if your points to get promoted is stuck on 798 guess what? you are not making since you lose points that you NEVER will have a chance to get again. I’m wondering how long will tk to HRC figure that?
Louie
If 390hrs of correspondence courses count for points. How do we max that category out, or is that 390 already maxing this categroy?
Mac Arthur D. "Mackie" Ocampo
Louie,
In order to max out points for military education, a Soldier will have to max each of the three categories established under the new policy.
To find out what these are, click on the following link http://asktop.net/articles/new-military-education-points-for-promotions-effective-1-jan-2012/.
SPC Ryan
I currently have 537 hours of correspondence through Skillport on Army e-Learning. I know of the new change to the promotion system. I am currently sitting at 465 points and for my MOS 31B points are at 525. Do I have until Nov 8th to make the cutoff score for Decemeber 1st promotions, or will I be able to make cutoff scores on Decemeber 8th for January 1st promotions before the change goes into affect?
Mac Arthur D. "Mackie" Ocampo
SPC Ryan,
The change takes effect for 1 Jan promotions. Therefore, all your correspondence course hours will count for 1 Dec promotions (Nov 8th cut-off). For 1 Jan promotions (Dec 8th cut-off), only 390 of your correspondence course hours will be eligible for points.
ban
My Unit S1 told me that the promotion point system for ACCP courses will change and will only allow you to max out at 80 promotion points for those courses, instead of maxing out with correspondence courses in the military education part, section b, and it would take effect in December 2011 or January 2012, how true is this fact because i am over 107 pts at 538 hours and I am wondering if I should continue or stop cuz i am currently at 131 points gained in that category.
Anonymous
Ban, that is a true statment, i have the new message in my hand stating that the military ed portion and all the course hours are going to change around once again so it would be in your best intrest to get promoted before or right at jan 2012.
my question is if i can do 1400 hours through skillport and still get 280 points.
Mac Arthur D. "Mackie" Ocampo
Ban,
MILPER MSG 11-306 identifies the changes that will be implemented for awarding Military Education Points for promotions effective 1 Jan 2012. The message states “COMPUTER BASED TRAINING. ALL NON-RESIDENT MILITARY TRAINING INCLUDING ARMY CORRESPONDENCE COURSE PROGRAM (ACCP), DISTANCE LEARNING (DL) AND ARMY E-LEARNING. THE MAXIMUM POINTS IN THIS CATEGORY IS ADJUSTED TO 78 POINTS FOR PROMOTION TO SGT AND 84 POINTS FOR PROMOTION TO SSG.”
In summary, you can max out correspondence courses for 1 Dec 2011 promotions. Come 1 Jan 2012, only 78 points to SGT and 84 points to SSG will count towards your score.
Mac Arthur D. "Mackie" Ocampo
As far as I know and based on the Army G1 brief, it pertains to the AC and USAR components only. I cannot honestly tell you how ARNG promotion work but I will make an attempt and send some e-mails out.