REALM Portal Update

December CE, TREC’s REALM Portal, and Your License

Short version: TREC is switching to a new system called the REALM Portal in early December. During the cutover, TREC is taking its online licensing services and the CE Posting System offline. That blackout means we cannot guarantee normal CE posting for classes finished after December 1.

Our internal deadline to protect your posting: If you want your CE hours posted before the REALM blackout, you must complete your December coursework with us no later than 11:59 p.m. on Monday, December 1, 2025.

Key Dates from TREC

  • December 2, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. CT – TREC’s current online licensing and CE systems are shut off for the REALM transition.
  • December 2, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. CT through December 9, 2025 – TREC has a system blackout while they move everything into the new REALM Portal. During this time, the CE Posting System is unavailable.
  • Early December 2025 – TREC says education providers will receive new course numbers, and license numbers will gain new suffixes that must be used going forward.

TREC has not given education providers detailed, practical, step-by-step instructions for how our CE posting tools, tokens, and workflows will operate inside REALM during or immediately after this blackout. We are not going to gamble with your license on a complex, one-week system changeover.

Instant CE Posting Is Ending (For Now)

If you’ve taken classes with us before, you’ve probably enjoyed our instant CE posting — your hours show up with TREC as soon as you complete your coursework. We have offered that for years using TREC’s current system.

Once TREC shuts down the old system and moves everything into REALM, that instant-posting setup goes away. They have not yet given us replacement tools or technical details for how providers are supposed to post completions in the new environment.

Because of that, we will:

  • Use the current system and its instant CE posting as long as it remains available, and
  • Temporarily halt new CE progress on this website after December 1, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. until we know how we can reliably post your hours under the REALM Portal.

How We Are Handling December CE

To protect you and your license record, we are setting a firm internal deadline for December completions:

Complete your December CE with us by December 1, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. so we can submit and post your hours before TREC shuts down the old system.

What We Will Do

  • Report all completed CE to TREC as quickly as possible on December 2, well before their 5:00 p.m. cutoff for the old system.
  • Rely on the existing instant CE posting process up to that point so your hours are pushed to TREC as fast as the current system allows.
  • Temporarily pause new CE course progress on our website after December 1 at 11:59 p.m., until the REALM-based posting tools are available and tested.
  • Monitor TREC’s REALM announcements and adjust our procedures as soon as they provide meaningful, provider-level guidance.

What We Cannot Promise

  • If you complete a class after 11:59 p.m. on December 1, 2025, we cannot promise that your CE will be posted before the blackout window.
  • CE finished after that internal deadline may not show up in your TREC record until at least December 10, 2025, and possibly later if the REALM rollout is bumpy.

Who Should Treat This as Urgent

  • License holders with a renewal date in December 2025 or early January 2026.
  • License holders whose broker or office requires CE to be done and posted by specific internal deadlines.
  • Anyone planning to squeeze in CE at the last minute in early December and assume it will appear instantly in TREC’s system.

If that sounds like you, do Future You a favor and do not wait until the blackout hits.

What You Should Do Right Now

  1. Check your TREC renewal date.
  2. Enroll in your course and plan to finish all required CE with us by December 1, 2025 at 11:59 p.m.
  3. Show up, finish, and let us handle the posting before TREC turns off the old system.

If TREC publishes clear, provider-focused instructions that materially reduce the risk of delay, we will update this page. Until then, please assume that December 2 through December 9 is a TREC system twilight zone and plan your education accordingly.