United Shares Real Estate School
School Policy
United Shares Real Estate School
13780 International Drive South
Orlando FL 32821
Phone: 407-996-1290
school@unitedshares.com
Mission: The mission of United Shares Real Estate School is to provide high-quality distance education courses to Real Estate pre-licensing students as well as licensed agents in support of federal and state-mandated education programs for licensure and ongoing professional competency.
United Shares Real Estate School teaches online distance education courses. Students may register and complete the course on any computer that meets the technical requirements covered in this catalog. Students may have access to the course at any time and may work at their own pace.
Ownership: United Shares Real Estate School offers real estate courses for delivery on computer.
School Hours of Operation/Calendar: The administrative staff hours of operation are: M-F 9:00a.m. – 5:00p.m. (EST). The technical support hours of operation are: M-F: 9:00 AM EST to 7:00 PM EST, (on call on the weekends: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM EST. Email support is available during normal business hours. United Shares Real Estate School staff office is closed in recognition for the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. On occasions, the office may close early due to inclement weather or on the day prior to a holiday. No recruiting for employment opportunities for any real estate brokerage firm is allowed on the school premises.
Enrollment Policies: Students may enroll in an United Shares Real Estate School course at any time by going to www.unitedshares.com or by calling our enrollment office at 407-996-1290. Since you choose to register for a course at a time that fits your schedule, there are no late enrollment requirements. United Shares Real Estate School enrollment policy allows students 180 days to complete the course and applicable exam with the option to purchase additional time United Shares Real Estate School does not accept credit for previous training.
Attendance Policy and Requirements to Graduate: In order to get credit for this course, you must complete 100% of the course (a 100% attendance rate.) Under no circumstances will you receive any credit for courses in which 100% of the lessons were completed and the final exam was passed. As it is taken on the internet, there are no absences, tardiness, or early departure policies. United Shares Real Estate School does not have a leave of absence policy or probationary period.
Overview of our Programs: United Shares Real Estate School offers the following courses:
- Sales Pre license
- Sales Post License
- Broker Pre license
- Continuing Education
State Requirements:
- Be at least 18 years old
- Have no felony charges on record
- Be able to submit proof of US residency
Pre-Licensing
Pre-Licensing Final Exams: Final exams must be passed with a minimum of 70%. Students failing the Commission-prescribed end-of-course examination must wait at least 30 days from the date of the original examination to retest. Within one year of the original examination, a student may retest a maximum of one time. Otherwise, students failing the end-of-course examination must repeat the course prior to being eligible to take the end-of-course examination again.
Expiration Date of Course: Pre-Licensing courses expire six months after the date of purchase. Each student will be granted a one-month extension at no charge, to be applied immediately after the initial six-month term. For any reactivation or extension of the course after the seventh month, United Shares Real Estate School will charge the student 20% of the current retail price of the course for each 30-day extension or partial 30-day extension in the event that the course finally terminates before the end of the final 30-day extension. Students may also elect to re-enroll for 50% of the current retail price of the course, if the course has hit the year expiration or the student is at the 7 month mark and wants to repurchase and restart the course and enrollment. Extensions or reactivations cannot be granted beyond 12 months from the purchase of the course since, in all events, the course terminates 12 months after purchase.
Post-Licensing
Post-Licensing Final Exams: Final exams must be passed with a minimum of 75% and may be taken twice in order to pass. If the exam is not passed the second time, the licensee must re-enroll at no cost (by contacting customer support) and retake the entire course, including the final exam. Licensees will be allotted 1.8 minutes per question. Licensees have up to 1 year, after failing the first exam to complete a second attempt.
Expiration Date of Course: This post-licensing course expires one year after the date of purchase. Each individual course will have an expiration date listed in the student’s account.
Continuing Education
Expiration Date of Course: Course expiration dates vary by course but are generally one year after order date. Each individual course will have an expiration date listed in your account.
Final Exams: Final exams must be passed with at least an 80% and may only be taken once. If the exam is not passed the first time, the licensee must re-enroll (at no cost) and retake the entire course, including the final exam.
Signed Student Affidavit
United Shares Real Estate School requires that you certify that you have personally completed each module of a distance learning course and any written exercise or assessment required for completion of the course. You must provide an electronic signed Student Affidavit to the school before scheduling any course examination and before the school may certify your completion in any course. The school will not process your course completion without your submitting a signed certification form. This form is available online and you will electronically submit this to your school when you have completed all required modules of the course. This from will appear on your course homepage once you have completed the course lessons.
In order for United Shares Real Estate School to certify that you have completed a course, you must:
- complete all instructional lessons in the course
- Submit signed and dated Student Affidavit
- Pass the required course final examination at an approved school location.
Course Completion Records: United Shares Real Estate School will supply you with a certificate of completion.
The CE Shop Learning System: The CE Shop Learning System represents an entirely new approach to instruction administered using a computer. The primary feature that distinguishes this system from more traditional computer-based instruction (CBI) is that the system is designed around proven instructional strategies, rather than around the capabilities of the computer.
How Our Course Monitors and Evaluates Your Progress and Provides Feedback:
CE Shop courses utilize the personal computer to perform the functions traditionally performed by the teacher. Using CE Shop courseware, the computer becomes essentially a one-on-one tutor. It presents the material to be learned, provides adequate explanation to ensure that you understand what is being presented, and requires that you demonstrate your understanding through active participation in the learning process.
More importantly, it acts as a constant monitor of what you know and don't know and uses that information to dynamically adjust the presentation to meet your needs as you learn. The result of this process is that the courseware provides a fully self-contained instructional program that can adjust to your specific needs which may vary widely both in the amount of knowledge you bring into the learning session as well as your learning ability (i.e., how quickly you learn. In addition, no other resources (such as books or teachers) are normally needed to accomplish the educational objectives of a particular course.
How to best take a CE Shop course
Spending too much time in any one session will burn you out. Remember, our program actually challenges you to LEARN the material not just skim over text. So, we recommend you split up your effort into 30-40 minute sessions. You can do more than one session per day (recommended) but, try to do something everyday. The consistency of effort (particularly for any prelicense courses) is what will produce the best learning for you.
As you work on the course, your time in each lesson is recorded as well as how many questions are presented and how many attempts were required to answer the question correctly. So, the learning system serves as a record of attendance and academic achievement.
Refund Policy: You have the right to cancel your registration for any reason within seven (7) business days from the date of purchase. Requests for cancellation of a registration must be made by contacting United Shares Real Estate School by phone, or email. The request must be received by United Shares Real Estate School before midnight of the seventh business day from the date of purchase.
A cancellation fee will be charged to the student to cancel a registration. The amount of the cancellation fee is 15% of the total purchase amount. If the course includes one or more textbooks, the books must be returned at the student's expense. The request for cancellation will not be processed until the book(s) are returned to the school in reusable condition.
Student Services, Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities: Upon successful completion of a course, each student will receive an official completion certificate. .
Technical Support:
You can contact Tech Support at 888.850.0751 or by email at Support@TheCEShop.com. Their hours of operations are Monday through Friday 8:00 AM EST to 5:30 PM CT. Email support is available during normal business hours. Emails received after normal business hours will be answered the following business day. Before you call, please be prepared to explain your problem in detail and have access to your computer. In order to effectively troubleshoot your issue, our technicians begin the call by asking you a series of questions regarding your operating environment. We will need to know what type of computer you are using, the operating system you are using, the version number of any associated software. Your calls may be documented or monitored to help us maintain quality of service standards.