How to Claim PDUs

Your PMP renewal requirements

You may earn all 60 PDUs through Education and skip Giving Back entirely. Giving Back is an optional way to earn some of the total—it is not a second mandatory requirement.

Understand the three Talent Triangle areas

Every Education activity must identify how its learning time is distributed across PMI's three skill areas. One course may include time in more than one area.

Ways of Working

The methods and techniques used to manage projects, including scope, schedule, cost, risk, quality, procurement, stakeholder management, and agile practices. For PMP renewal, the content must be genuinely relevant to project management practice.

Power Skills

Interpersonal and leadership capabilities such as communication, team leadership, negotiation, conflict management, and stakeholder influence.

Business Acumen

The business and strategic context surrounding projects, including financial analysis, organizational strategy, industry standards and frameworks, and decision-making tools.

Where eligible learning can come from

PMI does not require every eligible activity to come from a PMI Authorized Training Partner. What matters is that the activity fits an accepted category, is relevant to your certification, and can be documented.

• Courses or Training: instructor-led learning delivered in person or live online. Retain a registration record, certificate of completion, or letter of attendance.
• Online or Digital Media: self-paced video courses, webinars, and podcasts. A Udemy-style on-demand course normally fits here.
• Reading: relevant books, articles, white papers, and blogs. One hour of reading equals one PDU.
• Informal Learning: structured professional discussions, mentoring, and panel discussions.

Count engaged time, not only video runtime

PMI awards one PDU per hour of engaged time in an activity. For a self-paced course, legitimate engaged time can include quizzes, knowledge checks, and hands-on assignments that you actually complete—not only time spent watching videos.

HKSM course pages therefore present two useful figures:

1. Video-only baseline: time drawn directly from the learning platform's published runtime. This is the most easily verified figure because it matches a fact published by the platform.
2. Full course value: the video baseline plus a disclosed estimate for interactive work. HKSM uses a standard planning assumption of approximately five minutes per short quiz and 30 minutes per substantive assignment.

How to report a PDU activity

1. Go to ccrs.pmi.org and sign in, or use the Report PDUs option from your myPMI dashboard or PMI mobile app.
2. Select Report PDUs.
3. Choose the activity category that most closely matches your learning, such as Online or Digital Media for a self-paced course or Reading for a book.
4. Enter the provider, activity title, description, start and completion dates, total PDUs, and the Talent Triangle allocation. A URL is optional.
5. Review the entry and submit it. Keep your evidence in case PMI selects the claim for audit.

What to keep on file

Retain supporting documentation for at least 18 months after your CCR cycle ends. For self-paced or digital content, keep:

• the course or activity name;
• the dates you completed the activity;
• your learning time and PDU calculation;
• brief notes describing what the activity covered; and
• the certificate of completion, when one is issued.

A simple learning log containing the date range, hours, subject matter, and provider gives you a useful record if PMI requests evidence later.

Activities that do not count

• Learning completed before you earned the PMP certification.
• The same course or activity claimed more than once.
• An entire degree or certificate program reported as one activity; report eligible individual courses separately.
• Content that is not genuinely relevant to the domains of the certification being renewed.

How rollover works

For PMP holders, only PDUs earned during the final 12 months of the current three-year cycle may roll into the next cycle. The rollover limit is 20 PDUs. Excess PDUs earned earlier in the cycle do not carry forward.

Reference basis: PMI Continuing Certification Requirements Handbook, April 2026 edition. Requirements can change; confirm current rules in PMI's CCRS before submitting a claim.