The big list of Free CTS Renewal Credits. Please feel free to suggest changes via emailing me, commenting on Reddit, or submitting a pull request. All courses in this list are free.
Avixa's website is not entirely clear on which courses are free. In some cases the website is downright unhelpful - on my Reddit post above, I pointed out that the RU renewal list does not link to trainings, which makes some of them hard to find. There is also out of date information on that website. While I cannot promise this list will be maintained with perfect accuracy forever, I did want to provide a quick and easy way to find some extra renewal units in case you are in a time crunch prior to your renewal date.
- Audinate offers Dante Level 1, 2, & 3 training online. These are worth 3 RUs each for a total of 9 RUs.
- QSC offers various Q-SYS trainings on audio, video, and control topics worth anywhere from 0.5 to 8 RUs each.
- Biamp offers trainings from 1 to 25 RUs.
- In the Tesira path, there are 37.5 RUs worth of training for free available here.
- Impera learning path has 1.5 RUs
- Vocia learning path has 8.5 RUs available
- Cambridge Sound Masking learning path has 7.5 RUs available
- Legacy learning path has 5.5 RUs available
- TOTAL: 60.5 RUs by my count - all are self-paced.
- Bosch offers a Dynacord & Electro-Voice series worth 1-6 RUs depending on the course.
- Shure has a ton of trainings on audio subjects that offer anywhere from 0.25 to 7 RUs
- Shure Master Class: Wireless Best Practices & Techniques is worth 7 RUs.
- Legrand did a great job organizing their catalog by CTS/CTS-I/CTS-D; they offer 41.75 total RUs, of which I spotted at least 2.5 RUs related to audio.
- Datavideo Academy has lessons on streaming, cameras, and switching. 1 RU each, 6 total classes, for a total of 6 RUs available here.
- Planar has a bunch of different training options ranging from 0.5 to 4 RU, but they are not on-demand.
- Legrand offers 41.75 total RUs in a variety of categories, of which I spotted at least 10.75 RUs directly related to video or projection or HDBaseT.
- Extron trainings cover various topics including video walls, fiber optics, streaming, and more.
Coming soon, I promise
- Atlona has trainings from 0.5 to 2 RU
- Extron trainings cover various topics including control systems and switching. These two together would be worth 2.75 RUs.
- Harman has 51.5 RUs of training available. The bulk of that is the two AMX Programmer (Netlinx) courses worth 20 RUs each (for a total of 40 RUs). There are also some shorter video, networking, and lighting basics.
- ClearOne has a three trainings available that offer RUs according to Avixa, however, the ClearOne website does not make this very clear (ha, ha)... Advanced Pro Audio Conferencing (1.5 RU), Convergence AV Manager Certification (2 RU), and CONSOLE AI Configuration Software Certification (0.5 RU)
- Netgear has a "Network Fundamentals for AV Over IP" course for 15 RUs
- Shure has a Networking for Shure DSP and Audio Interfaces course worth 0.5 RU
- Legrand offers 41.75 total RUs in a variety of categories, at least 8.5 RUs are networking related.
- Extron trainings cover various topics including networking. There is a networking principles course for 2.5 RUs and a wireless principles course for 1.25 RUs.
- Avixa Calendar - As much as I dislike their website, they do a good job listing officially sponsored webinars, usually worth 0.5 - 1 RU each. Also check the RU Provider page here, for some reason there are other webinars listed that don't show up on the first page.
- Sign up for rAVePubs and keep an eye out for LAVNCH week events - they give a varying amount of RUs
Thanks to thedrvthrubandit, ThatLightingGuy, vitas_gray_balianusb, Traktop for suggestions in the Reddit thread. Thanks to freakame for linking this list in the pinned Jobs and Training post on the Commercial AV subreddit.