Online trades learning and Red Seal exam preparation
Learn the trade.
Get exam-ready.
Self-paced online courses for Welding, Metal Fabricator and Ironworker apprentices and tradespeople — $700 CAD per level with 12 months of access, so you can study around your shifts. Apprenticeship registration, hours and certification are handled by your provincial apprenticeship authority.
Study at Apex
Three ways to study
Whether you are studying your first level, preparing to write the Red Seal exam, or building the business side of your trade — start from the option that fits where you are now.
Trade courses by level
Online lessons and chapter quizzes for your trade, level by level, built around the topics apprentices are examined on. $700 CAD per level, 12 months of access. Self-study — it does not replace registered technical training or count toward apprenticeship hours.
Red Seal exam preparation
Practice questions weighted to the published Red Seal exam blueprint, for people who are already eligible to write. For Welding: a $700 review level with lessons is available now, and a $99 practice-exam-only option is coming. Start with the free welding practice test.
Estimating and business
Estimating, quoting and job-costing tools for tradespeople moving into supervision, estimating or running their own shop. Apex Pro membership from $29 CAD a month.
Areas of study
Programs offered
Apex specializes in the metal and structural trades — the disciplines where a certified ticket and a Red Seal endorsement change what you are paid to do.
Welding
Self-paced online lessons, quizzes and practice exams for the welding trade across three levels — safety, cutting processes, welding processes, metallurgy and layout — plus an optional Red Seal exam review level.
Reinforcing Ironworker
Self-paced online lessons and quizzes for the Reinforcing Ironworker trade across two levels — rebar installation, reading placing drawings, post-tensioning, welding for reinforcing and field safety.
Structural/Ornamental Ironworker
Self-paced online lessons and quizzes for the Structural/Ornamental Ironworker trade across three levels — structural steel erection, rigging and hoisting, ornamental and miscellaneous metals, cranes and signalling, and field safety — plus an optional Red Seal exam review level.
Metal Fabricator (Fitter)
Self-paced online lessons and quizzes for the Metal Fabricator (Fitter) trade — pattern development, layout and fitting, blueprint reading, material handling and fabrication practices. This program is still being built out; each level shows its current chapter count.
Estimating and business
Become an estimator
The trade pays for what you can build. Estimating pays for what you can price. The Estimator Pathway takes the trade knowledge you already have and turns it into customer-ready takeoffs, quotes and job costs.
- Estimating and takeoff workbooks you keep
- Markup, margin and job-costing fundamentals
- A portfolio piece to show an employer or a client
Also available
Career pathways for every stage
Not sure which program fits? Start from where you want to end up and Apex sequences the levels for you.
Apex by the numbers
Figures reflect the published catalogue and update automatically.
Student support
Built around working apprentices
Most people studying at Apex are already on the tools. The program is shaped around that rather than around a term calendar.
Start where you actually are
Buy the level you need rather than a whole program. Each level unlocks that level's lessons and quizzes for 12 months, and you move on when you are ready — you are never held back by a cohort.
Browse levelsCertification stays with your province
Apex is study material, not a certifying body. Whether you can write a provincial or Red Seal exam is decided by your provincial apprenticeship authority, based on registration and documented hours. We point you to the right authority and help you prepare.
How certification worksAnswers before you commit
Enrolment, refunds, exam attempts and what happens when your access period ends — all set out plainly before you pay for anything.
Read the FAQNews and updates
What is new at Apex
Exam preparation
Free welding practice test, no account required
Twenty questions weighted to the Red Seal blueprint, marked instantly, with the reasoning shown for every answer.
Take the practice testPrograms
Structural, reinforcing and fabrication programs now open
Alongside Welding, Structural/Ornamental Ironworker, Reinforcing Ironworker and Metal Fabricator (Fitter) programs are now open. Programs are still growing — each program page shows its current chapter count.
Browse the programsContinuing studies
The Estimator Pathway is accepting enrolments
Workbooks, takeoff practice and job costing for tradespeople moving into estimating or running their own shop.
Read moreLand acknowledgement
We acknowledge Treaty 6 territory
Apex Technical Training honours and acknowledges that the land on which we learn, work and live is Treaty 6 territory — the traditional lands of the nêhiyawak (Cree), Denesųłiné (Dene), Anishinaabe (Saulteaux), Nakota Sioux (Stoney) and Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) peoples, and a homeland of the Métis. We recognize the skill, craft and knowledge Indigenous peoples have carried on this land since long before the trades were formalized, and we are committed to making technical training accessible to Indigenous apprentices across Treaty 6 and beyond.
Learn the trade at Apex
Enrol today and start the same hour. No class dates, no waitlist, no cohort to catch up with.