Educator Licensure and Renewal Portal

Renewal Application Guide

This guide is designed to assist applicants through the process of renewing one or more professional license
online through ELAR. The guide will help educators navigate the process of selecting a Primary Area, completing
a renewal application and renewing multiple licenses. For information about satisfying the renewal
requirements, for example, what activities count towards PDPs, how many PDPs is an activity worth and what
distribution of PDPs is needed to satisfy the renewal requirements, please review the Recertification/Renewal
Guidelines (guidelines-recert-ma-educators.docx).

Contents
Selecting Your Primary Area Professional License .................................................................................................2
Starting and Submitting Renewal Applications ......................................................................................................5
Submitting Multiple Renewals at the Same Time ..................................................................................................9

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Selecting Your Primary Area Professional License
Navigate to your Profile. Go to the left-side navigation and click Licenses under LICENSES.

Under Description, you will see a list of your licenses. Click All to see a complete list of your Professional
licenses, including licenses that are invalid.

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Click the license that you want to make your Primary Area Professional license so that you may renew. This will
open the license so you may view it. NOTE: You must have one Professional license designated as your Primary
Area in order to complete a renewal application.

Once you are viewing the license, click the √ Make Primary button.

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A pop-up will appear: Confirm Set Primary. Click: Confirm

ELAR now recognizes your designated Primary area with a √ symbol next to the license that was made primary.
You will not be able to renew a Professional license without designation of a Primary area.

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Starting and Submitting Renewal Applications
Once you have selected a Primary area license, you are ready to start a Renewal application. You may click on
the Renew button next to any professional license in its renewal window from the Dashboard. All renewal
applications are started from the dashboard.

Once you click on the Renew button, a renewal application associated with that license will immediately start.
Once the application is created, you will be in the Overview section of the application, where you will be able to
see any licenses you hold as well as any applications you may have already started. To complete the renewal
application, you will need to click on the specific Elements of the application either on the left-side navigation
under Elements, or in the middle section of the screen under the Requirements section of the application.

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You may view each element by clicking on the element links underneath the Requirements section in the
application overview or in the left-side navigation of the application. You will need to make sure you check the
confirmation box for each element before clicking Save & Continue. Once the element is confirmed, you may
click Save & Continue and move to the next element.

In the Licensure Renewal Requirements section, you will need to note what Renewal Requirement Type your
license renewal falls into, for example, Primary Area or Additional Area, as well as answer any other
corresponding questions. Once you are done, confirm the element by clicking the box, and then click on Save &
Continue.

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In the summary, click the button that says, Mark as Ready for Submittal.

A pop-up will appear with directions on whether to proceed with the submittal process for any applications or
close the pop-up in order to start other applications. If you want to continue with the application, including the
completion of the affidavit, click on Submit Eligible Applications.

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Next, you will see any applications that are ready for submittal. Please click on each application you would like
to submit. The invoice summary will appear, and then you will be able to click on Proceed to Affidavit.

*Note that if your Primary area license is in the renewal window, that license renewal application must be
checked first before checking any other renewal applications. See this section for info on how to select a Primary
License. Please see this section for info on how to submit multiple renewals at one time.

From there, you will complete the affidavit and if appropriate, selecting “Yes” to each option. Then, sign it via
your PIN (you will need to click on the “Forgot your PIN” link next to the Sign button to see the PIN that has
been automatically assigned to you) and then clicking “Submit Affidavit.” After successfully submitting your
affidavit, you will then be taken back to your checkout page, and the Application Payment modal will open up.
Fill out a payment option.

After entering in the payment information, scroll down to the bottom of the payment pop-up and click on
“Review Payment.” After reviewing the information, click on “Submit Payment.” Once the payment is made, the
application is submitted. For specific types of applications, such as professional license renewals, the application
will be auto-approved upon submittal.

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Submitting Multiple Renewals at the Same Time
If you have more than one license eligible for renewal, you may submit these at the same time as your Primary
Area license application. Before paying and submitting on the Application Ready for Submittal page, go to your
Dashboard. On your Dashboard, you will find Renew buttons to start applications for any other licenses eligible
for renewal.

Use the Renew buttons next to each of your licenses to start an application for each.

*Note that if you have multiple Additional Professional license(s) you wish to renew, an application will need to
be started from your Dashboard for each of the license renewals. They may all be submitted and paid for at once
along with your Primary license renewal. But you must start an application using the Renew buttons for each.

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Once you have started and completed all the Renewal applications you wish to submit, and clicked Mark as
Ready for Submittal on each, you will be able to pay for and submit all of them at once.

The Primary area License must be selected first, and then you will be able to select any other applications that
are ready for submittal. As you select applications, the Invoice Summary for payment will also update.

Once you have selected the applications to pay for and submit, click the Proceed to Affidavit button, where you
will follow the same steps as earlier in this guide to complete the affidavit and submit the applications.

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