Here is a summary of the membership benefits by level
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| Joint Marketing Activities, such as co-authoring industry articles, conducting webinars, presentations at industry events, and authoring Learning Impact blogs. |  |
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Opportunity to promote your organization's user conferences, including Call for Presentations, via the IMS Community Dispatch and other IMS Higher Ed or K-12 publications. Events promoted are ones that do not conflict with an IMS event. |
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| Opportunity for suppliers to record an 8-10 minute product overview to showcase how you are partnering with institutions to enable digital transformation to help teachers and learners alike reach new heights. Recordings will be shared via the Higher Ed and K-12 Playbooks as a resource for institutions. | |
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| Approved use of all IMS Global trademarks according the IMS trademark guidelines | |
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| Annual Strategy & Technical Update webinars or workshop to outline a roadmap for the member institution, district or state to assist with the adoption of IMS standards and practices. |
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| Opportunity to develop a technical App Note to highlight how your organization is working with another IMS Contributing Member to leverage IMS standards | |
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| Designate one representative to be on the Technical Advisory Board, opportunity to participate on Product Steering Commitees and other advisory boards, and opportunity to serve in leadership roles for technical project groups. | |
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| Voting rights on standards activities | |
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| Eligibility to be nominated to serve on the IMS Board of Directors and subcommittees | |
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| Access to all workgroup and technical resources | |
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| Ability to certify as a CASE Network Provider | |
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| Ability to Certify as a CASE Network Consumer | |
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| Participation in Project Groups and Advisory Board activities | |
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| Ability to participate in the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability Development Assistance Program | |
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| Application fee is waived for the Learning Impact Award Competion | |
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| Ability to attend and participate in IMS Quarterly Member Meetings | |
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| Discounted registration fees for the Annual Learning Impact Institute | |
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| Access to Developer, Testing and Conformance Certification Resources for all technical work as released by technical workgroups | |
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| Access to Developer, Testing and Conformance Certification Resources for specific set of technical work covered by the Alliance membership | |
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| Preferred early access to draft specifications as released by technical workgroups | |
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| Early access to draft specifications coverd by the Alliance membership as released by the technical workgroup | |
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| Apache 2 Open Source license | |
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| Ability to apply the IMS Conformance Certification trademark and registration number to specific product(s) that have passed certification testing | |
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| Participation in the TrustEd Apps and Data Privacy Program | |
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| Technical Support From IMS Staff and other IMS Members via online forums for member organization implementing standards and access to the IMS Support Portal | |
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| Member-Only communications based on membership level | |
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| Access to public technical resources and forums | |
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| Public communications | |
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| LGPL Open Source License | |
