ALT’s new online course for Certified Membership of ALT accreditation scheme candidates, ‘Your guide to Certified Membership of ALT (CMALT)’, launched during CMALT week 2025. The course is designed to provide all CMALT candidates with guidance that enables them to create, and confidently submit, their CMALT portfolio for assessment. Listening to candidate feedback and expert recommendations, the course adapts our existing guidance and introduces new and improved content.
The course is designed to enable candidates to engage with the course as suits them best. Candidates can choose to complete the course from start to finish, as a six-week course, or dip into the content that is most relevant to them. Each week focuses on one of the CMALT core areas and includes guidance and advice from existing holders and assessors.
The project to create a CMALT course began in 2023, when ALT sought volunteers from the community to help host, design and create the course. The King’s Digital team, from King’s College London, stepped forward to design the course and Catalyst IT Europe offered to host the course on a dedicated cloud-hosted Moodle platform.
A working group of ALT members, CMALT holders and assessors was formed to input into the course design, review and feedback on the course. Along with Members of the working group, CMALT holders and assessors participated in the filming of the video content on the course.
On the launch of the course, Amy Hollier, Director of Production at King’s Digital, said
Many people in our team at King’s Digital have gained or are working towards CMALT accreditation, so we were excited to collaborate with ALT on creating this course for CMALT candidates. Developing the course has been a great collaborative experience for us, involving many people within and beyond our multidisciplinary team. We hope that this course will be really helpful for current and future CMALT candidates across all pathways.
Learn more about how King’s Digital designed the course.
As proud platform hosts, Richard Oelmann, Head of Business Development and Consulting at Catalyst IT Europe, remarked
As the premier Moodle Partner for HE, and as long term members and supporters of ALT, Catalyst recognise the importance of suitable accreditations for members of the Learning Technologies community. Alongside facilitating both the Moodle Educator and Administrator Qualifications (MEQ/MAQ), Catalyst were very proud to be asked to support the CMALT accreditation through providing the platform for this course.
ALT’s CEO, Susan Martin, said
I want to thank Catalyst IT Europe and King’s Digital for their support in hosting, designing and developing the course. The huge amount of resources that have been dedicated to the project is testament to the generosity of ALT’s members and the importance of CMALT to the learning technology profession. I am proud to see this course come to fruition after years of work from those involved. I am certain it will be a source of much-needed additional support to our candidates.
‘Your guide to Certified Membership of ALT (CMALT)’ is available now. Find out how to access the course.
We wish to extend our thanks to those who have contributed to the creation of this course:
King's Digital team
Elisa Valarani, Project Manager
Michael Kay, Senior Learning Designer
Hazel Deacon, Learning Designer
Fariza Bhuiya, Learning Designer
Nicole Dickinson, Learning Designer
Tash Ferenczy, Senior E-Learning Content Developer
Bobbie Apps, E-Learning Content Developer
Lai Yan Wong, E-Learning Quality Assurance Officer
Evelyn Huang, Media Producer
Bill Matthews, E-Learning Visual Designer
George Knowles, Senior Video Editor
Annora Eyt-Dessus, Head of Learning Technology
Ephie Lam, Web Developer
Paul Warren, Web Developer
ALT Working Group
Richard Beggs
Puiyin Wong
Sharon Flynn
Fawei Geng
Jade Kimberley
Dewi Parry
Phil Vincent
Julie Voce
Jenni Houston
Kiran Gawali
Darren Gash
Jonathan Mori
ALT Team
Kerry Pinny, Chief Operations Officer
Video contributors
Julie Voce
Sheila Smith
Kiran Gawali
Geraldine Foley
Ellie Dommett
David Reid Matthews
Antony Makrinos
Tom Gurney
Puiyin Wong
Dominic Pates
Anna Armstrong
Laura Pätäri
Catalyst IT Europe team
Richard Oelmann, Head of Business Development
Joey Murison, Managing Director
Sam Taylor, Digital Learning Team Manager