AIP now offers three online pathways in parliamentary procedure, each with 10 courses. You can take the courses in any order, enrolling in one at a time. Each course contains assigned readings, an interactive lesson, and a quiz to check what you have learned. Planning to complete a full pathway? Save over 20% by purchasing a pathway bundle compared to purchasing courses individually AND receive a discount code to redeem a complimentary membership for 1 year. Membership offer only available when pathway bundle is purchased at the non-member price.
Want to try out a course for free? Check out the course below.
This free course is a part of the Meeting Management Skills pathway.
Understanding Deliberative Assemblies and Quorum
Meeting Management Skills Pathway
Courses include deliberative assemblies, order of business, principles and history of parliamentary law, main motions, debate and strategy, officers and the minutes, and more.
| Participating in a Meeting Pathway
Courses include the principles and precedence of motions, standard characteristics of motions, main, subsidiary, privileged and incidental motions, and more. | Administrative Skills Pathway
Course include bylaws, boards and committees, discipline and finance, voting procedures, nominations and elections, quorum, conventions and more. |
Meeting Management Skills (Pathway Bundle)
Conduct of Business & Voting
Expediting Business: Out of Order, Assumed, and Renewed Motions
Officers & Minutes
Members & Management of Meetings
Principles of Parliamentary Law
Order of Business, Agenda, Orders, & Program
Main Motions & Resolutions
Classification of Motions
Debate
Amendments
Understanding Deliberative Assemblies and Quorum
Participating in a Meeting (Pathway Bundle)
Subsidiary Motions
Principles of the Precedence of Motions
Privileged Motions
Dilatory, Improper, and Assumed Motions & Renewal of Motions
Incidental Motions I
Incidental Motions II
Exceptions, Specific-Purpose Main Motions, and Adhering Motions
Bring Back Motions & Specific-Purpose Main Motions
Main Motions & Resolutions
Standard Descriptive Characteristics & Basic Rules that Govern Motions
Administrative Skills (Pathway Bundle)
Voting Process
Committee Reports & Committee of the Whole
Nominations & Elections
Bylaws
Boards & Committees
Standing Rules, Standing Orders & Parliamentarian
Discipline and Finance
Conventions
Corporations, Mergers, & Dissolution
Quorum & Advice of the Parliamentarian