CEC & Education: how HQ tracks continuing education across the network

CEC & Education is where association leadership sees continuing-education-credit (CEC) progress across the whole membership at once: how many credits the network has earned this cycle, which member businesses are falling behind, and what courses are in the active catalog. It replaces chasing spreadsheets or emailing members for their credit counts.

This page is an association-only surface. It appears in the HQ sidebar for association-type HQ accounts; franchise and enterprise HQs do not see it, because continuing education requirements are a membership-association concept, not a franchise-royalty concept.

Where to find it

In the HQ sidebar, open the Membership group and select CEC & Education (mortarboard icon). The Membership group sits below Compliance and stays permanently expanded, the same way Intelligence and Network stay open, because for an association these are core, daily-use surfaces rather than reference material.

Direct URL: hq.verinode.ai/education.

The page title reads "CEC & Education" and the section loads automatically when you open it. There is nothing to configure to view it.

The credit summary (top of the page)

The top of the page is a single hero panel with three numbers underneath it.

Headline number: total CEC credits awarded across the membership so far in the current cycle. The eyebrow above it reads "CEC credits · [year] cycle" where [year] is the current calendar year. Verinode runs continuing education on a calendar-year cycle: it resets to zero at the start of each new year.

Status pill next to the headline:

• If no member businesses are on the roster yet, it reads "No members yet."
• Otherwise it reads "[X] of [Y] earning," where X is how many member businesses have logged at least one credit this cycle and Y is the total roster size.

Summary line below the pill:

• With no roster yet: "Education data will appear as members are added to the roster and courses are published."
• Once there is a roster: "[N] active course(s) · [M] member(s) behind on CEC this cycle."

Three secondary figures, always shown left to right:

1. Active courses, the count of courses currently published and live in the catalog (courses marked inactive are excluded entirely; they don't count here and don't appear anywhere else on the page).
2. Behind on CEC, the count of member businesses that have not yet reached the cycle's credit target. This tile is colored as a signal: if the count is above zero it reads in the Analyse (attention) color; at zero it reads in the Expand (healthy) color.
3. Members earning, the count of member businesses with at least one credit logged this cycle. This one is colored Expand once any member has started earning, and neutral if nobody has yet.

The whole hero panel's overall tone is decided by the same math: neutral if the roster is empty, Expand if nobody is behind, Maintain if half or fewer of the roster is behind, and Analyse if more than half the roster is behind on CEC. That tone shows up as an accent color and glow around the panel, giving you an at-a-glance read before you scroll to the detail rows.

Members Behind on CEC

This row lists the member businesses currently short of the 10-credit target, sorted with the furthest-behind member first (lowest credit count at the front of the row).

Each tile shows:

• Top label: "[credits] of [target]," e.g. "3 of 10."
• Headline: the member business's name.
• Subtext: how many credits they are short, e.g. "7 credits short of target."
• Meta note: "No credits yet" if the member has logged zero credits this cycle; blank otherwise.

Tiles for members with zero credits are colored in the Analyse (Ember Red) accent; tiles for members who have some credits but are still under target are colored in the Maintain (Hard Hat Yellow) accent. The row shows up to 12 members at a time, ordered furthest-behind first, so if your association has more than 12 members short of target, the worst cases are the ones you see.

Empty states:

• If the roster is empty: "Member CEC progress will appear as the roster and credits are recorded."
• If every roster member has already met the target: "Every roster member has met the CEC target for this cycle." (A clean row here is a genuinely good sign: everyone is caught up.)

Course Catalog

This row lists every course currently marked active in the association's CEC catalog, in alphabetical order by title.

Each tile shows:

• Top label: the credit value the course is worth, e.g. "2 CEC."
• Headline: the course title.
• Subtext: the course's category (or "General" if no category is set).

The catalog row shows up to 12 courses. If your association publishes more than 12 active courses, older or lower-priority ones may not appear in this row; the full catalog exists behind the scenes even if only a subset displays here.

Empty state: "Courses will appear here as the association publishes its CEC catalog."

How the numbers are produced

CEC & Education is a rollup: it is built from your association's own roster, your own published course catalog, and the credit records logged against your own members. Nothing on this page draws on data from any other association, franchise, or enterprise network on Verinode. There is no cross-network comparison here (that is what Benchmarks is for, on unrelated metrics); this page is entirely internal to your membership.

Because HQ only ever sees network-level aggregates and roster-level compliance status, not the underlying private business records of any single member company, CEC & Education respects the same privacy boundary as every other HQ surface. Member businesses' own operational and financial data stays theirs; HQ sees where each of them stands on continuing education, and nothing more from this page.

Using this page day to day

1. 1Check the hero panel first. The overall tone (Expand, Maintain, or Analyse) tells you in one glance whether the network as a whole is on track for the cycle.
2. 2Scan Members Behind on CEC. Because it is pre-sorted by urgency, the top few tiles are your best candidates for a reminder, a nudge at the next regional call, or a targeted email.
3. 3Check Course Catalog if a member asks "what can I still take this cycle?" It is the same list they see, so you can point them at exactly what is available and how many credits each option is worth.
4. 4Come back after your association's next event, webinar, or training window to watch "Members earning" and "Behind on CEC" move as new credits get logged.

Related help

• How Verinode HQ separates network aggregates from private member data
• Member Directory: your association roster in Verinode HQ
• Dues & Renewal: tracking membership billing status
• Growth & Retention: membership acquisition and lapse risk