For a new user to access the Career and Technical Education Information System (CTEIS), they must first have a MILogin for a third-party account. A MiLogin account securely registers a user’s information, maintains privacy, and provides access to CTEIS.

A MiLogin account provides users with a username and password to access the CTEIS application. *Please note that after you have registered and obtained a MILogin account, you will need to have permissions granted by your Level 5 Fiscal Agency Authorized Official. If you need assistance with log-in permissions, please see your Level 5 Fiscal Agency Authorized Official for assistance. Please view MILogin for CTEIS for details on how to register.

Steps for Gaining Access to www.cteis.com

• You must have a MILogin for Business account. If you do not have a MILogin account, you can create one on the internet at MILogin – Login (michigan.gov). Click on the link “Sign Up” and follow the instructions provided.
• Your Fiscal Agency Authorized Official must activate your CTEIS account. If you are unable to log in to www.cteis.com, please contact your Fiscal Agency Authorized Official and request access to CTEIS. Directions for Authorized Officials regarding delegation can be found on the CTEIS webpage by clicking the link titled “Fiscal Agent Delegation Instructions.”

Log in to CTEIS

To access the CTEIS website, type www.cteis.com into any Internet browser address bar. This will open the login page for CTEIS, where you click the link “Login using MILogin,” you will be redirected to the MILogin for Business account homepage. Enter your MILogin account username and password. Follow the prompts on the screen, and you will be redirected to the CTEIS homepage.  Your Fiscal Agency Authorized Official will create your user account in CTEIS and set up the appropriate access rights.

Troubleshoot Your Login

• If you are still unable to log in to CTEIS after following the above steps, please contact the CTEIS Help Desk at cteis.help@PTDtechnology.com or (517) 333-9363, extension 128, or toll-free at (800) 203-0614, extension 128. 

•  Make sure your MILogin works at the MILogin for Business website , MILogin – Login (michigan.gov). If you cannot log in to the MILogin website, contact the Help Desk at (517) 335-0505.

• If you mistype your password, an error is displayed: X Invalid User ID or password. Check your username and password for MILogin.

• If the MEIS Server is down then you will get an error. If the MILogin server is down, then we cannot validate the MILogin account and thus, you cannot log in.

• If your login works on the MILogin website and not the CTEIS website, contact your Fiscal Agency Authorized Official and make sure you have been granted proper access to CTEIS.

• If you created a shortcut to the CTEIS website and usually link to the CTEIS website by clicking on the shortcut and are not able to log in, then try connecting directly to CTEIS by opening your browser window and typing www.CTEIS.com in the address bar. Press the Enter key on your keyboard.

A period of inactivity will require you to log in again to access CTEIS. This period of inactivity is typically fifteen minutes.

Validating enrollments must be done by verifying the instructional design, leveraging reports and tools like the Check UIC feature to verify entries, and ultimately ensuring that your data is accurate.

Validation tools will highlight errors when data does not meet the specified requirements or criteria. However, if the foundational data is incorrect, such as assigning a student to the wrong course or failing to assign the appropriate segments or competencies, these issues will not trigger validation errors. To avoid such problems caused by incorrect data entry, you must review your instructional design and utilize the available reports to identify any discrepancies. Ensuring data accuracy is essential for accurately reflecting student progress.

The purpose of the May CTEIS enrollment deadline is twofold:

1. To align the MSDS and the CTEIS enrollment reporting, and to enable districts to maximize accuracy through the following data-checking processes:

• UIC Record Check – compares all CTEIS UICs to the UIC Master, to ensure that each student in CTEIS has a valid UIC /first name/last name/gender/date of birth combination. 
• MSDS Record Check – matches the student UICs in CTEIS to the UICs in MSDS, to ensure that each CTEIS student has a current MSDS record.  (Students that do NOT have a current MSDS record are NOT eligible for Section 61a1 funds and are not retained in the CTEIS system.)  Student demographics (gender, ethnicity, special populations, exit status, etc.) that were reported in MSDS are then uploaded into CTEIS for all matching UICs.

2. To ensure that districts are proactively enrolling their students and that they are checking and resolving their data issues regarding student UICs and CTEIS/MSDS alignment.

• We recognize that the record-checking process can be time-consuming, as feedback from the CEPI and CTEIS systems typically takes anywhere from two to seven days. We also realize that MSDS record correcting requires time and resources, as it often involves complicated coordination with sending schools and districts. After May, however, the workload of CTEIS managers and programmers increases in preparation for state and federal data reporting.  As a result, data matches may occur less frequently, and feedback takes even longer.  Therefore, districts that enroll students in CTE courses after the May enrollment deadline are at higher risk of NOT completing their end-of-year reporting on time. Because the deadline for the end-of-year reporting is aligned with the end of the fiscal year, deadline extensions cannot be granted.  

CTEIS enrollment is captured as a snapshot shortly after the May enrollment deadline and is compared to the final enrollment reported.  The resulting differences between the snapshot and the final enrollment reported reveal cases where districts have not complied with the deadlines and may result in TRAC findings.

The comments section should not be used by schools to communicate with or provide feedback to the State. Please contact the CTEIS help desk at (517) 333-9363 or the Follow-Up monitor at the State with questions, feedback, or suggestions.

PTD Technology cannot provide any survey materials that are easily altered. Any sort of cutting or pasting within these documents is generally frowned upon; however, you are welcome to staple additional survey questions onto the official forms.

Neither the State nor the Survey Support Center provides fillable PDFs for the Follow-Up survey, but you may create your own if you desire.

No, CPR is not considered a certification response on the Follow-Up Survey. Please see OCTE for further details. 

This is in reference to Survey Question 1. “Are you going to school? Working? F. Other:”

Students are considered unemployed if they reply to items 1c, 1d, and 1e are “No.” In the case of an indefinite layoff, the interviewer will answer 1c-e as “No,” and then ask Q2. Move to part B if the interviewee is in school, and make sure to cover section D regardless of whether the respondent is in school or not.

As a rule, districts should keep their records from TRAC visit to TRAC visit (5 years). However, if the local record retention schedule requires them to keep records for a longer period of time, districts should defer to that schedule.

This is about Survey Question 1. “Are you going to school? Working? F. Other:”

No, a Concentrator receiving Worker’s Compensation should not be coded as “working.”

A Concentrator receiving Worker’s Compensation should not be coded as “working.”

Students are considered unemployed if the reply to items 1c, 1d, and 1e is “No.” In the case of an indefinite layoff, the interviewer would answer 1c-e as “No,” and then ask Q2. Move to part B if the interviewee is in school, and ensure that section D is covered, regardless of whether the respondent is in school or not.

Use Avery 5160 labels when printing. The Follow-Up Instructional Guide contains more information regarding label print properties. 

The Expenditure Report (4033) is due in November to your Regional Career and Technical Education (CTE) Administrator. The CEPD Administrator will submit to the Office of Career and Technical Education (OCTE). Please refer to the OCTE calendar for specific due dates.

The CTEIS Listserv is email notifications sent to inform CTEIS users of system updates, training sessions, and general information pertaining to CTEIS applications.  

If you would like to be added to or removed from the CTEIS Listserv, send an email to:
martinezj9@michigan.gov with the appropriate request. Please remember that emails sent to Listserv (or replies sent to “all” from a Listserv email) will be sent to all Listserv recipients.