ArmyIgnitED

The Army’s new platform through which the student selects their education pathway and requests financial assistance. This will be the platform for which Army students will select TA (tuition assistance).

Yes. Students will have access to create their account in ArmyIgnitED. Students will need to use their Common Access Card (CAC) card to access the system.

Students should log into ArmyIgnitED and create an account. Please note, students will need to use their Common Access Card (CAC) card to access the system. This requirement will limit their ability to access the system when off-duty unless they have USB CAC card readers.

Students should use their .mil email address per Army Guidance. A system-generated email will be sent with instructions for students to finalize their account creation.

Yes, every soldier must create an account in ArmyIgnited 2.0.

Yes, as a part of the account creation the student will have to select their school; they will select APU as their home school at that time.

Soldiers will need to 1). Create an account in ArmyIgnitED, 2). Select their school and add AMU Student ID to their profile, 3). Set up their Education Goal (Select their Degree and identify any transfer credit), 4). Wait for their education goal to be approved by their Army education counselor, 5). Select their course (s) and submit their tuition assistance request.

a. Student should start with AMU, so they can complete the application process and select their program of study. They will need their AMU student ID and their academic program name to complete their profile in ArmyIgnitED.

b. Students can register for their course(s) in AMU and use their registration confirmation to request tuition assistance in ArmyIgnitED. The information on the TA request must match the AMU registration exactly.

a. Yes, the student will need to request TA for each new enrollment/registration in ArmyIgnitED, upload their evaluated degree plan (Student Degree Plan in their eCampus), and make changes to their academic goals if they change their program.

b. New students to AMU should wait to upload their evaluated Student Degree Plan in your eCampus to their ArmyIgnitED account until their initial transfer credit evaluation is complete. Students will be allowed to complete 6 SH before being required to upload their evaluated degree plan to request additional TA funding.

a. This how the student identifies their academic goals by selecting the degree/program of study they are enrolled in at APU. During this process they can also indicate an estimate of their transfer credit award.

b. Once the academic goal is submitted, it must be approved by the education counselors.

a. The only information that is passed from ArmyIgnitED to AMU are Tuition Assistance Request Approvals.

b. Tuition Assistance approvals will be transferred to AMU electronically at least once daily.

a. The student’s academic plan—the requirements, courses needed to be completed, courses completed, transfer credit. This is the Student Degree Plan that can be downloaded from the student’s academic plan in their ecampus. They will then need to upload the student agreement to their ArmyIgnitED account as their evaluated degree plan.

b. If the EDP is not uploaded during the Education Goal creation (during account set-up), the student will have to send it to the Education Center to upload.

Upon completion of 2 courses, the EDP will be required to request additional Tuition Assistance.

Students will need to download their Student Degree Plan from their academic plan in their ecampus. They will then need to upload the student agreement to their ArmyIgnitED account.

No, not at this time. Army policy does not allow for TA to be approved for academic certificate programs.

TA can be requested up to 60 days prior to a course start date, but no later than 7 days prior to a course start date. Any TA requests placed within 7 days of a course start date will be denied funding by the Army.

Yes, students will have to select their courses they registered for in AMU in their Evaluated Degree Plan in ArmyIgnitED and create a Tuition Assistance Request no later than 7 days prior to course start.

a. Yes, students will have to register in their eCampus. This should be the first step in the TA request process.

b. Students should keep a copy of their Registration Confirmation Page to refer back to when completing the TA request. The course code and dates selected in ArmyIgnitED must mirror what has been selected at AMU.

c. They will also have to select their courses in ArmyIgnitED and request their TA in ArmyIgnitED.

All students can register for up to 6 semester hours after they are admitted; they will need to create account in ArmyIgnitED; select AMU as their school; select their education goal (academic program), which must be approved by their education counselor.

Please note, for students who have had their transfer credit evaluated, they should upload their evaluated degree plan (student agreement) at the time they create their education goal.

The student will submit the drop or withdrawal form in their eCampus.

The Military Registrations & Resources (MR&R) team will submit the grades to ArmyIgnitED two weeks after the course end date.

Grade changes will be updated by the MR&R team. Please email [email protected] if your course final grade is changed on your AMU account. The MR&R team will update your final grade on your ArmyIgnitED 2.0 account.

Students on extension, ‘I’ grades, will be reported and updated after the final grade is posted to your AMU account by the MR&R team weekly in ArmyIgnitED.

a. Drops will be processed during the billing/invoicing cycle.

b. Students who drop their course are encouraged to return to ArmyIgnitED and cancel the TA request so funding can be re-allocated to the Fiscal year allotment.

c. Withdrawals will be reported on the grade file sent from AMU to ArmyIgnitED.

The MR&R team will log into the AI Portal’s administrative site and upload an official electronic transcript for students to confirm their degree completions after each conferral: February 1, April 1, June 1, August 1, October 1, and December 1. Please allow 48 hours for the degree completion to reflect on your ArmyIgnitED account.

a. In ArmyIgnitED, students will select their Active Education Goals and then select Apply for Funding.

b. TA requests that are within the Quality Assurance guidelines [Part of their evaluated plan, no more than 9 hours, and have no holds on account] will be automatically approved by the system. If any of these criterion aren’t met, the TA request will be sent to the education counselor for review.

Once verified by the Soldier or Education Center, the TA request will be auto approved. The soldier should see the Pending TA/Approved TA requests in ArmyIgnitED.

a. Course access will be granted when the Army TA Request is submitted to AMU. The Army will send TA request file each day to AMU. If all data sets match, course access will be granted, and students will be notified via email. 

b. The Student Degree Plan is the academic plan that shows the courses the student will need to take. To get TA approval the course will need to appear on the SDP. If the course appears on their SDP, then the TA approval is automatic. Course access is granted once we have TA approved TA confirmation. 

Students should be aware that AMU offers both 8- and 16-week courses each start month. If a student has registered for an 8-week session in their eCampus, they should select the coinciding 8-week TA dates in ArmyIgnitED. Selection of incorrect TA dates could lead to processing delays.

Students should also only request TA for one course at a time. If you have multiple course registrations and multiple starting dates, the TA for each course must match the registration selection exactly.