In order to register for a webinar, whether live or on-demand, you must first purchase siteCredits. You'll need 1 siteCredit for a 1 hour webinar, 1.5 siteCredits, for a 1.5 hour webinar, and 2 siteCredits for a 2 hour webinar. You may buy exactly the number of siteCredits you need to register for a course, or you may opt to take advantage of our discounted bundled rates. The more you buy, the greater the discount.

Follow these instructions to buy siteCredits:

1. Login.

2. Select the Purchase siteCredits option from the Continuing Education menu.

3. Enter the number of siteCredits you'd like to purchase in the text field at the bottom of the panel, and click the View Total button to see how much it will cost.

4. When you're ready to purchase, click the Purchase siteCredits button. You may then enter your credit card information and purchase via our secure merchant gateway, or you may use Paypal.

NOTE: SITECREDITS YOU PURCHASE DO NOT EXPIRE. siteCredits are 'spent' when you register for live/on-demand webinars. Registrations are final.

If you do have the siteCredits available in your account, follow these instructions:

1. Login.

2. Select All Courses option from the Continuing Education menu.

3. Select the webinar you want to sign up for from the list of webinars available.

4. Click the Register With eCredit(s) button to use your CE (Continuing Education) siteCredits.

The Purchase page will give you a summary of how many siteCredits you have in your CE bank and how many you will have left after your purchase. For example:

"Your current number of available credits is 25. After purchase of this course, you will have 24 available credits left."

5. When registering for an on-demand (recorded) webinar from this page, click the Register button. There are no additional registration fields to fill out for on-demand webinars.

When registering for a live webinar, fill out the First Name, Last Name, and Email fields and press Register. You will be sent an email to the address you provided in the Email field with the URL to join the meeting at the scheduled date and time.

Absolutely. All live webinars are recorded in their entirety and made available in on-demand (recorded) format.

All live webinars presented before December 31, 2023, including those in the EBT Certification Program, will expire on May 31, 2024.

If the webinar is presented after December 31, 2023, the webinar's expiration date will vary. Please check the webinar's detail page for the expiration page.

Your access to the on-demand webinar recording, as well as the presentation slides and your certificate of completion stays in effect and is available to you until the webinar's expiration date.

For live webinars that you've attended, RDs should use code 171: Live Webinars and Teleseminars.

For recorded (on-demand) webinars, RDs should use code 175: Recorded Pre-Approved CPE.

The Transfer feature allows you to transfer any number of siteCredits from your account to others. For example, if you have purchased 2 siteCredits and want to give one away, you can use this feature to transfer it to another person. Once the siteCredit has been transferred successfully, you'll have one siteCredit left in your account and the recipient of the siteCredit will have 1 siteCredit as well. From the standpoint of registering for live or on-demand webinars, there is no difference between siteCredits that you purchased directly or siteCredits that you received from others by using the Transfer feature.

Note: siteCredits are used to register for webinars in this web site. They do not apply to any other form of credit or term used other than as a means to register for and have access to webinars in DietitianCentral.com.

You can, of course. However, keep in mind that the more siteCredits you buy in one transaction, the cheaper the siteCredits. Buying in bulk and then transferring the siteCredits allows you to buy at discounted rates. Recipients that receive transferred siteCredits can use them the same exact way as if they had purchased it themselves.

You can always check the number of siteCredits you have available by going to the Transaction Summary panel from the Continuing Education menu.

To transfer one siteCredit (or 2, 3, etc.) to a recipient, please follow these steps:

1. Login.



2. Select My Transfers from the Continuing Education menu.



3. You can only transfer siteCredits if you have available siteCredits in your account. If you do, enter the email address of the person to whom you will transfer the siteCredit in the text box next to the "Step 1: Select Person" button.



4. Click the Step 1: Select Person button.
   
   There are 2 possible scenarios:
   
   a) When the recipient IS A MEMBER of the site...
   
   
   • The Username will display below the text field.
   
   
   
   • Enter the number of siteCredits you want to transfer to this member's account and click the "Step 2: Transfer eCredit" button.
     
     1) the eCredit(s) you specified will be transferred from your account, and 2) an email will be sent to the member informing him/her that he/she has received siteCredits. The email will also include instructions on the process of logging in and using the siteCredits to purchase webinars on the site.
   
   
   
   • You will see a record of this transaction on the Credit Details listings within the lower section of the same panel.
   
   
   b) When the recipient IS NOT YET A MEMBER of the site, you can make him/her a member on the fly...
   
   
   • When the person's email entered is not a member of the site, you'll see a message above the entry field in red that reads:
     
     "This email is not in our database. Please click the button below to add this person as a new member."
     
     
   • Enter the number of siteCredits to transfer in the Number of siteCredits field.
     
     
   • Click the "Add New Member" button that displays next to the email address button.
     
     
   • Enter the Real Name of the recipient of the eCredit. You also have the option of updating the Username and Password for this new member or to let the system assign a username and password to the recipient.
     
     
   • Click the Process button when you're ready. 1) a new user account will be created, 2) the siteCredits you specified will be transferred from your account to the recipient's account, and 3) an email will be sent to the recipient informing him/her that he/she has received siteCredits. The email will also include instructions on the process of logging in and using the siteCredits to purchase webinars on the site.
     
     
   • You will see a record of this transaction on the Credit Details listings within the lower section of the same panel.
     
     

You can take back a transferred eCredit, as long as the recipient has not used it yet to purchase a webinar (live or on-demand). From the Credit Details listing on the My Transfers panel, you'll see a Take Back button for each recipient row.

A group view allows you to distribute a certificate of completion to every RD participant who watches an on-demand recording or live webinar that you show. For example, you have purchased an on-demand recording of a webinar. You can then show it to other RDs or colleagues on your computer or overhead projector. Then, after the showing, you can send them each the certificate of completion for the course. The process is completely automated. You can send the certificates of completion all at once or individually.

As with all continuing education webinars, you'll need to purchase siteCredits in order to send out certificates to participants in a group view. The cost is the same as when purchasing siteCredits individually. Please go to the Purchase siteCredits page from the Continuing Education menu for our siteCredit rates.

• Login.



• Click Group Views from the Continuing Education menu.



• Select a previously saved participant list webinar in your account from the drop-down menu. The page displays a list of participants to send certificates to. You can then add or remove participants from this list.
  
  Alternatively, you can add a list of participants on-the-fly by adding the name and email directly without saving the list.
  
  If you would like to save your list of participants, please click the 'Manage Participant List' button and proceed to edit, add, or remove from your list. You'll then be able to retrieve it for future use.
  
  NOTE: Do not enter your own name and email address since you already have access to the webinar, your certificate of completion, the recording, and all related items from the My Courses panel.



• Select one or more webinars from the list of webinars in your account.



• When you're ready, click the Purchase With Your siteCredits button at the bottom of the panel. If you need to purchase siteCredits, please go to the 'Purchase siteCredits' section from the Continuing Education menu.

You have just set up a group viewing on the site. Now it's up to you, as the administrator, to schedule the viewing with the participants in a conference room, or any physical setting of your choice. It's up to you to determine how many times you want to show it to other participants.

The way to display a webinar is as follows.

• For on-demand recordings, click My Courses from the Continuing Education menu. Then, select the webinar and play the recording.



• To join a live webinar, click My Courses from the Continuing Education menu. Then, click the URL to join the webinar at the scheduled date and time. Alternatively, you can click the URL in the email invitation sent to you when you registered for the live webinar.

Once you've shown the webinar, send participants their certficate of completion by following these steps:

• Login.



• Click Group Views from the Continuing Education menu.



• Select a "paid list" from the drop-down menu. All participant lists purchased are in the paid list drop-down.



• Check the box next to the Send button to first select all participants at once and send them all a certificate of completion by clicking the Send button.
  
  Alternatively, you can click the Send Certificate link for each row to send the certificate of completion individually one row at a time.
  
  

Yes. Each participant receives an email with the Certificate of Completion as a pdf attachment. The email also lets participants know they have the option of logging in by giving them their Username and Password. They can then access the certificate of completion as well as the slides for the webinar at their convenience from the Group Views page available from the Continuing Education menu.