How to use the new ACE system

[Dorothy44]

Thank you for the link!!  I got it now!

[dfrecore]

@Dorothy44 - I would just go on with what you're doing right now and worry about it when the time comes to renew Study.com membership.  You should update Study.com courses and have them transferred into Acclaim/Credly for credit banking your courses.  I used the ACE system to keep track of all my credits, the Acclaim/Credly system should be treated the same way - a storage of all your ACE courses/credits you have accumulated.

Luckily I used my own personal spreadsheet to keep track of my ACE credit, because I no longer have access to my ACE account!  If I only used ACE, I'd be in trouble right now!

I am keeping track now of everyone I've talked to about my credits, and managing getting them all transferred over to Credly if possible.  It should be an interesting experience.

[natshar]

The good part is this isn't for my degree. More just for personal purposes and possibly if I even get a second bachelor's down the road. My first bachelor's I didn't use any ACE (with the exception of CLEP/DSST but those are separate anyway).

But I have ACE credit I have earned since 2018 and I haven't sent any of it to TESU besides study.com. Probably should sent it earlier but I just didn't feel like paying the fee.

But still I did earn the credit and some of the ace credit cost me money so it would be nice to have on an actual college transcript.

[eriehiker]

The good part is this isn't for my degree. More just for personal purposes and possibly if I even get a second bachelor's down the road. My first bachelor's I didn't use any ACE (with the exception of CLEP/DSST but those are separate anyway).

But I have ACE credit I have earned since 2018 and I haven't sent any of it to TESU besides study.com. Probably should sent it earlier but I just didn't feel like paying the fee.

But still I did earn the credit and some of the ace credit cost me money so it would be nice to have on an actual college transcript.

This is why nobody should accept a situation going forward in which ACE does not acknowledge previously-earned recommendations in some transcript form.

I will give an example.  I earned credit recommendations previously from the Alternative Credit Project Ecosystem.  This was an in-house ACE program in which they partnered with organizations like edX, Ed4Credit, Straighterline, etc.  This was not simply recording credits earned at a separate institution.  This was a grant-funded program via the Gates Foundation in which ACE preemptively sought out these organizations for the ACPE.

https://www.acenet.edu/Documents/ACE-Alt...Report.pdf

These were actual ACE programs, not just credit recommendations.  There was no space between the partners and ACE.  They were completely intertwined.  I would make the argument that this is/was true in practical terms for all ACE-recommended credit.  No one would have taken most of these tests/classes/whatever except for the fact that they had an ACE recommendation.  ACE made money from the course providers.  The course providers made money from ACE.

I am not sure that we have actually seen what ACE will ultimately do about these orphaned credit recommendations.  However, it is not acceptable and is potentially fraud if ACE does not integrate these recommendations from defunct providers/systems into the new system.

[natshar]

The good part is this isn't for my degree. More just for personal purposes and possibly if I even get a second bachelor's down the road. My first bachelor's I didn't use any ACE (with the exception of CLEP/DSST but those are separate anyway).

But I have ACE credit I have earned since 2018 and I haven't sent any of it to TESU besides study.com. Probably should sent it earlier but I just didn't feel like paying the fee.

But still I did earn the credit and some of the ace credit cost me money so it would be nice to have on an actual college transcript.

This is why nobody should accept a situation going forward in which ACE does not acknowledge previously-earned recommendations in some transcript form.

I will give an example.  I earned credit recommendations previously from the Alternative Credit Project Ecosystem.  This was an in-house ACE program in which they partnered with organizations like edX, Ed4Credit, Straighterline, etc.  This was not simply recording credits earned at a separate institution.  This was a grant-funded program via the Gates Foundation in which ACE preemptively sought out these organizations for the ACPE.

https://www.acenet.edu/Documents/ACE-Alt...Report.pdf

These were actual ACE programs, not just credit recommendations.  There was no space between the partners and ACE.  They were completely intertwined.  I would make the argument that this is/was true in practical terms for all ACE-recommended credit.  No one would have taken most of these tests/classes/whatever except for the fact that they had an ACE recommendation.  ACE made money from the course providers.  The course providers made money from ACE.

I am not sure that we have actually seen what ACE will ultimately do about these orphaned credit recommendations.  However, it is not acceptable and is potentially fraud if ACE does not integrate these recommendations from defunct providers/systems into the new system.

I 100% agree. How do we contact them to explain this to the people at ACE?

[dfrecore]

I received an email from ACE this week and in it the woman mentioned "our former transcript provider is no longer offering credentials for us." Wait, what? Who is their former transcript provider? And why didn't they just transition to a new transcript provider on their end (like Parchment, Credentials Solutions, Student Clearinghouse, etc.) so that students didn't have to do anything? I just don't get it. I emailed back asking these questions, mentioning that the switch over to Credly/Acclaim was a hot mess - so far, no response. We shall see if I get one.

[Old Guy]

Why didn't ACE simply transfer their database to the new provider.  They committed fraud upon possibly hundreds of thousands of people likely costing them hundreds of millions of dollars in money and possibly billions in time.  This is negligence in the extreme.  Anyone know a scumbag lawyer looking for class actions.  This one is ripe for exploitation.  A problem may be that unless the corporate shield can be pierced, lack of assets may make them more or less judgement proof.  The threat may convince them to transfer the credit as they should have done in the first case.

[Pats20]

Looks like Sophia issued badges for all but 2 courses I’ve taken. Not sure what that’s about. Ace approved them and they were on my ace transcript. Tesu accepted them as well. I will contact Sophia through chat on Monday and inquire. Hopefully they just missed them.

[rachel83az]

I received an email from ACE this week and in it the woman mentioned "our former transcript provider is no longer offering credentials for us." Wait, what?  Who is their former transcript provider?  And why didn't they just transition to a new transcript provider on their end (like Parchment, Credentials Solutions, Student Clearinghouse, etc.) so that students didn't have to do anything?  I just don't get it.  I emailed back asking these questions, mentioning that the switch over to Credly/Acclaim was a hot mess - so far, no response.  We shall see if I get one.

I always thought ACE provided the transcripts themselves. If they were using a third party, I do wonder who it was and why their contract ended.

[Old Guy]

I just don't get it.  I emailed back asking these questions, mentioning that the switch over to Credly/Acclaim was a hot mess - so far, no response.  We shall see if I get one.

They're hiding.  They did something stupid and won't own up.