eXtension Benefits: Roles, Services and Tools for Every Extension Professional

Serving Cooperative Extension Professionals

Our flagship program, the Impact Collaborative is the main vehicle through which eXtension serves the Cooperative Extension System. eXtension Foundation also provides a national delivery infrastructure for the system.

Search for Information

This service allows you to search the resources provided by your Cooperative Extension Service using a Google Custom Search Engine that includes many of the Cooperative Extension web sites provided by your Land-Grant institutions.

Get Your eXtension ID

To access many areas within eXtension, an eXtension ID is required.

• Getting Started with eXtension

Join Ask an Expert

Ask an Expert is an automated system where the general public asks questions and are routed to an agent or specialist to answer, depending on the topic.

• Ask an Expert “How to” Guide
• Tutorials and Instructions

Create and View Online Learning with eXtension Campus

The online campus of eXtension is the knowledge-to-action service that is an integral part of the U.S. Cooperative Extension System.

• Online Webinars – don’t need an eXtension ID.
• Education Articles – don’t need an eXtension ID.
• Catalog – catalog of educational opportunities offered through eXtension, the Cooperative Extension System, and its partner institutions.
  • 30 minute Orientation on eXtension’s Catalog
• Professional Development – offers learning opportunities focused on professional development for employees of the Cooperative Extension System. eXtension ID required.

Join a Community of Practice

What is a Community of Practice?

Communities of Practice are formed when a group of Extension Professionals wants to collaborate across state lines and nation-wide. A current list of eXtension Communities of Practice with a brief description and primary contact is located here.

• Communities of Practice Fact Sheet
• Collaborative Community of Practice
  • Follow the #eXtIC hashtag on Twitter. (You don’t need to be on Twitter to read the tweets.)
  • https://twitter.com/eXtension4U
  • Follow us on Facebook

Publish through eXtension using Collaborative Work Space

eXtension’s collaborative and internal publishing work space. You can work on developing eXtension content for eXtension.org here as well as find and post administrative documents, news and events for your communities and networks. To begin working here, just use your eXtension ID to log in.

Horizon Report for Cooperative Extension

Welcome to the first Extension Horizon Report! The report focus on trends, issues, and developments over the next five years (the near “horizon”). A team of 50 Extension professionals dedicated time as a panel to review materials and create the findings of the report. It is our hope that the Report:

1. Serves as a guide for policy, training, and funding decision making
2. Creates awareness around key trends, issues, and developments
3. Increases future thinking in the Cooperative Extension system

Develop Ideas through the Impact Collaborative

Focus Areas for 2018

Follow eXtension Social Media

• Follow the #eXtIC hashtag on Twitter. (You don’t need to be on Twitter to read the tweets.)
• https://twitter.com/eXtension4U
• Follow us on Facebook