--- title: "Overview" date: "2024-02-14T06:18:38+00:00" summary: "Discover Acquia Academy, your hub for Drupal and Acquia product training. Access free and paid resources, including e-learning courses, guides, and case studies. Register now to enhance your skills and pursue certifications." image: type: "page" url: "/acquia-academy/overview" id: "e4b5e705-eb5c-46bd-a5e3-8519339e1c98" --- Acquia Academy is Acquia’s home for training and certification, designed to help you obtain, assess, and maintain your Drupal and Acquia product knowledge. Self-register to access free and paid resources. You can select from self-paced e-learning, getting started guides, case studies, and other assets. Acquia Academy branches ----------------------- Acquia Academy offers the following branches with content tailored to the audience they serve. You can self-register on the appropriate branch: * [Customer branch](https://customers.acquiaacademy.com) is available for all Acquia customers and their development partners. It contains all of our Community branch content, and specialized content designed for our customers. For development partner access, customers must provide partner details to their Acquia Account Manager so that they can be allowlisted for self-registration. Customers must use their work email address for self-registration. * [Partner branch\*\*](https://partners.acquiaacademy.com) is available for all [Acquia Certified Partners](https://www.acquia.com/partners). It contains all of our Community and Customer branch content, and specialized content designed for our partners. Acquia partners must use their work email address for self-registration. Access requests are moderated by an administrator. * [Community branch](https://community.acquiaacademy.com) has courses for anyone who wants to learn more about Drupal or Acquia’s offerings. Our Community branch contains free Drupal e-learning, allowing members of our community to learn and become certified as Drupal and Acquia product site builders, developers, marketers, and content managers. Note Users can only be registered on one branch of Acquia Academy. If you already have an account on another branch, you will see an error message when you try to create an account. Note Acquia allowlists company-specific email domains for access to the customer branch of Acquia Academy, and moderates access requests to the partner branch of Acquia Academy. Customers and partners must use their work email address when registering on Acquia Academy. They must also accept Acquia’s privacy policy. You do not need to use the same email address for access to Acquia Academy as you use for access to your Cloud Platform account through `https://accounts.acquia.com/sign-in`. Switch between Acquia Academy branches -------------------------------------- Acquia Academy branch associations correspond to your relationship with Acquia. Branch associations change after your relationship with Acquia changes, such as in the following scenarios: * You become an Acquia employee, customer, or partner. * You depart from an organization affiliated with Acquia. * You transition between organization types, such as from partner to customer or employee to community member. Request a branch change ----------------------- To request a switch to a different branch, email acquia.academy@acquia.com with the following information: * Email address associated with the account * Reason for the branch change The Academy team reviews the request and adjusts the branch access. Creating your Acquia Academy account ------------------------------------ Note * Acquia Academy requires a separate account from your Cloud Platform user account. * An Acquia Academy account is required to complete an [Acquia Certification exam](/acquia-academy/certification). ### Self-registering on Acquia Academy 1. Visit the appropriate branch as defined under [Acquia Academy branches](#acquia-academy-branches), and click **Register** in the upper-right of the webpage. 2. Complete the registration form, review the [Privacy Policy](https://community.acquiaacademy.com/learn/policy), and select the **I accept the terms of the privacy policy** checkbox to accept the privacy policy. This is required for account creation. 3. Click **Next**. Acquia Academy sends a confirmation email to the email address that you provided. 4. Click the link in the confirmation email to confirm your account. If you do not receive a confirmation email or need help to sign in, contact [Acquia Support](/service-offerings/support#contact-acquia-support) or send an email to `acquia.academy@acquia.com`. 5. Visit [Acquia Academy](https://www.acquiaacademy.com) to sign in with your new account. You may be prompted to review and accept the [Privacy Policy](https://community.acquiaacademy.com/learn/policy) if you have not already done so. After you have signed in, you can enroll in any available course and rate any of the courses that you take. Signing in to Acquia Academy ---------------------------- If you have [created an Acquia Academy account](#acquia-academy-create), you can sign in to Acquia Academy at [Acquia Academy](https://www.acquiaacademy.com). Navigating Acquia Academy -------------------------