What does ACS offer to Their Affiliates?
What happens once you have become an affiliate?
We have tutors, writers, marketing professionals, administrative staff, IT experts and more. All working on developing our courses.
But we have two special members of staff who are the specialists and experts in supporting our affiliates - Kate Gibson and Jonathan Gibson are our affiliate team.
Jonathan joined ACS in the last year and brings substantial experience from industry to the team. Whist Kate has been with ACS for some years and is our Affiliations Manager. Her current role at ACS includes managing our affiliation relationships, and the training and induction of new affiliates.
Let’s find out more about how Kate supports new affiliates.
Kate says -
“When an affiliate joins the ACS Global Partners team, they are guided through several areas of the business model:
- We have developed a series of instructional videos that are easy to follow and succinct. They cover how to customise the Learning Management System (LMS), and add features that you can tailor to your needs. These include assignment management, sales reports, and student progress options.
- Affiliates are furnished with a range of administration documents that they can easily adapt to their needs. Welcome letter, how to use the LMS as a student, and even payment dishonour letter are some examples of useful administration documents we can provide. We also provide a sales report template that helps affiliates calculate royalty amounts due. This can be used each month for sales reporting.
- We also cover matters like commonly asked questions and how to answer them, our latest insights on trends and the changing market, ideas on how to market the products, and help with any day to day issues that might arise.”
As well as providing useful, practical information and resources, Kate says
“We are always here for affiliates should they need assistance, and support is tailored to each individual affiliate's requirements.”
Updating and Improving
When you become an ACS affiliate, you are not given a range of courses and sent on your way! No, our aim is to provide education for people. We want to provide up to date and useful information. In the modern world, courses and information can go quickly out of date, so at ACS DE, we are always
- updating and improving the courses we offer
- adding new courses to our stable of courses
We listen to our students. We listen to our affiliates.
- We find out what information and courses they need.
- We update information and courses.
Kate says,
“ACS are constantly developing new courses - both full automated 20 hour courses and 100 hour courses - and also updating established courses in response to changes in industry and feedback from both tutors and affiliates. Because ACS has such a broad range of disciplines, each affiliate can specialise in a certain area. If we see a demand trending based on feedback from tutors and affiliates, we are in a strong position to answer that demand by creating new courses swiftly. This means we are among the first to market in new trends.”
As Kate says, an affiliate can offer –
- All of our courses
- Specialise in a certain area
For example, if you were interested in writing, you might choose to set up an online school selling our writing courses, such as creative writing, poetry, journalism, copywriting, script writing etc.
We also offer 20 hour short courses and 100 hour tutor supported courses, so that students are offered courses to suit them and their needs. Some students want to study a course quickly on a specific topic, whilst others may to look at a topic in more detail and with tutor support.