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This course serves as a tool for small flock, backyard, homestead, and hobby poultry owners to become more informed on avian influenza (AI). You will learn how AI can affect you and your flocks, biosecurity measures that should be practiced to prevent disease and how to respond and recover in an event of an outbreak. Upon completion of this course you may take the final exam to receive your Avian Influenza Biosecurity Certificate. This course material may be reproduced free of charge for public use, however, it is not be be used for profit or financial gain.
Any questions about this course should be directed to Nathaniel Tablante at nlt@umd.edu
To learn more you may want to visit the eXetension Avian Influenza Homepage or the Avian Influenza Facebook Page
- Teacher: Brett Kreifels
Avian Influenza Biosecurity for Emergency Responders is a self-directed certification course designed for emergency response personnel. Participants will gain vital information on bio-security measures and emergency management procedures that are necessary to prevent, contain, and recover an avian influenza outbreak. For more information contact Nathaniel Tablante, University of Maryland at nlt@umd.edu.
- Teacher: Brett Kreifels
For more information about this course contact Nathaniel Tablante, University of Maryland at nlt@umd.edu.
- Teacher: Brett Kreifels
The Vermont Backyard Woods Course is designed for homeowners with less than 25 acres who want to learn more about the woods in their backyard: what’s in it, who (wildlife) uses it, and how they can become better caretakers of it.
The course explores the following themes: An Introduction to Your Backyard and Beyond; Getting to Know Your Woods; Backyard Woods Projects; Developing a Backyard Woods Action Plan.
About the Course
- This is an introductory course, designed to give landowners basic skills and connect them to resources available.
- The self-paced course is hosted online and is composed of 4 sections. Each section has videos and activities that are to be completed on your own schedule.
- Participants will be invited to join drop-in webinar sessions with experts.
- There will be two optional in-person walks.
Who should join this course?
- Homeowners who own 5-25 acres.
- Homeowners who want to become more active stewards of their land, but don't know where to start.
- Homeowners who want to learn general ecology in Vermont.
By the end of the program participants will:
- Understand why their backyard woods matter, the benefits it provides, and how it contributes to Vermont’s forest landscape.
- Identify natural history and cultural features in their backyard woods.
- Identify and rank stewardship goals and objectives for their property.
- Develop a stewardship action plan with a project schedule and plan for implementing stewardship activities.
- Increase awareness and connection to resources and organizations available to assist landowners in post-course activities.
Questions?
Contact Gwen Kozlowski at gwen.kozlowski@uvm.edu or 802-651-8343
- Teacher: Gwen Kozlowski
Knowing general information about horse welfare, behavior, nutrition, health and regulations is essential to keeping your horse happy and healthy. This learning module gives an overview of the care and management of horses, with information ranging from daily health checks to management & control of diseases and parasites.
For information contact Colleen Brady, at bradyc@purdue.edu.
The fee for this course is $10. To purchase and enroll in the course, click the following button:
If you purchase at least $40 worth of courses from this category, you can receive a 20% discount by entering the voucher code of HorseQuest20.
- Teacher: Kathy Anderson
- Teacher: Colleen Brady
Basic Radio 101 for North Dakota Emergency Responders is a self-directed course for paid and volunteer people who serve in EMS, law enforcement, firefighting and other first responder activities. Participants will learn how to use their radios appropriately, protocols to follow and how to troubleshoot common problems. For more information, contact Brenda Vossler, N.D. Department of Emergency Services training and exercise officer, at (701) 328-8106 or blvossler@nd.gov. For technical support, contact Becky Koch, (701) 231-7875 or becky.koch@ndsu.edu, with North Dakota State University Agriculture Communication.
- Teacher: Becky Koch
For more information or to enroll contact Patricia Rayas-Duarte, Oklahoma State, pat.rayas_duarte@okstate.edu or Dwayne Hunter, Oklahoma State, dwayne.hunter@okstate.edu
- Teacher: Dwayne Hunter
Este curso en
línea está dirigido a proveedores de cuidado infantil. Esta curso que dura 30
minutos es una manera divertida e interactiva de conocer las últimas
recomendaciones para niños sobre bebidas saludables y ayudar a los proveedores
de cuidado infantil a cumplir con los requisitos de la Ley de Bebidas
Saludables en el Cuidado Infantil de California (AB 2084). Este curso que dura
30 minutos, incluye videos, exámenes rápidos y actividades sobre temas como los
tipos de leche y jugos que se deben servir, el consumo seguro de agua potable y
como usar la información nutrimental de la etiqueta de los alimentos. El proveedor
recibirá un certificado de capacitación al completar el curso. El curso es
gratis para proveedores de cuidado infantil en California y tiene un costo de
$15 para proveedores de cuidado infantil fuera de California.
- Teacher: Danielle Lee
Este curso en línea está dirigido a proveedores de
cuidado infantil. Esta curso que dura 30 minutos es una manera divertida
e interactiva de conocer las últimas recomendaciones para niños sobre
bebidas saludables y ayudar a los proveedores de cuidado infantil a
cumplir con los requisitos de la Ley de Bebidas Saludables en el Cuidado
Infantil de California (AB 2084). Este curso que dura 30 minutos,
incluye videos, exámenes rápidos y actividades sobre temas como los
tipos de leche y jugos que se deben servir, el consumo seguro de agua
potable y como usar la información nutrimental de la etiqueta de los
alimentos. El proveedor recibirá un certificado de capacitación al
completar el curso.
El curso es gratis para proveedores de cuidado infantil en California y tiene un costo de $15 para proveedores de cuidado infantil fuera de California.
Si desea comprar este curso, haga clic en el siguiente botón:
- Teacher: Danielle Lee
- Teacher: Steve Pritchard
- Teacher: Troy Walz
The City of Bozeman Advisory Board Member Training is intended for the City Advisory Board Members of Bozeman, Montana. This is a self directed course, which should take less than one hour to complete. This course is intended to educate employees and public officials in best practices and legal requirements. It details specific ethical requirements and provides guidance on obtaining information and filing complaints. For detailed instructions on how to login and enroll in this course, take a few minutes and read through the Enrollment Instructions & Helpful Tips document.
For questions or concerns regarding this course, contact Brenda Sweeney, Deputy City Clerk, at (406) 582-2320 or bsweeney@bozeman.net.
- Teacher: Ashley Kent
- Teacher: Jane MacDonald
- Teacher: Lydia Maunz
Students will learn skills to prepare them for post-secondary opportunities. In the 11th grade course, students will learn about scholarships and financial aid, resumes and applications, interviews, and post-secondary options.
- Teacher: Mindy Aragon
- Teacher: Leah Haxton
This 3-part series begins with the DiSC© Workplace assessment* where participants learn about their preferred work styles and environment. We discuss why this self-awareness is critical to being an effective leader/manager and explore some strategies for anticipating what future employees might be looking for in a manager.
Session 2 dives into organizational culture as it shows up on your farm and why being transparent about the culture you are striving for matters in building a farm team. We will spend time assessing your current culture and exploring strategies to either amplify or change it. We'll share tips on how you can anticipate someone's work style and preferences based on some very common observations.
Session 3 will be an interactive look at how, why and when conflict arises in work environments. We explore strategies to address the role of the manager when there is conflict within the work team, how different DiSC© profiles approach conflict, how to model productive conflict, and how to move beyond conflict and emerge as a stronger team.
These are interactive sessions, and your participation will be critical to our collective learning. Resources will be provided in advance and participants should plan time to review the materials prior to each session. Participants will leave the series with an action plan designed to get your growing season off to a successful start.
- Teacher: Beth Holtzman
- Teacher: Mary Peabody
- Teacher: Seth Wilner

About the Course:
This course is for program directors, coordinators, staff or anyone directly involved in working with volunteers.
Upon completion of this course, learners should be able to:
- Describe the benefits volunteers provide to programs and organizations
- Identify the roles and responsibilities of those involved in working with volunteers
- Identify the characteristics of an effective volunteer program
- Use the 7-step ISOTURE model to help build volunteer engagement
Along the way, learners will assess their own program, using self-guided activities and resources and develop a volunteer engagement action plan.
California Cooperative Extension Staff |
Free with enrollment key (contact your State Coordinator for enrollment key)
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Non-California Users |
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1-4 Seats |
$30 each |
5-49 Seats |
$25 each |
50-99 Seats |
$20 each |
100 or more Seats |
$10 each |
Contact:
For more information or to enroll please contact:
- Gemma Miner, UC ANR, Academic Coordinator for Volunteer Engagement gmminer@ucanr.edu
- UC ANR Course Support, idevelopsupport@ucanr.edu
- ANR Administrator: Zeva Cho
- ANR Administrator: CA 4-H eXtension Tech Support
- ANR Administrator: Gemma Miner
- ANR Administrator: Lauren Snowden
This course will help you become a better facilitator in a rapidly evolving virtual world.
Do you find yourself leading more virtual groups? Would you like to improve engagement? Better manage the group’s process and challenges? Have more confidence with the multiple aspects of virtual technology? Adapt proven techniques and tools for a virtual environment? Join us as we explore the emerging best practices of virtual facilitation skills. This course builds on the well-known Strengthening Your Facilitation Skills Level One training. We will build confidence and practice skills in a safe, supportive space.
This course consists of two parts. Each week there will be videos, resource materials and discussion threads for you to engage with prior to our live weekly sessions. These materials will prepare you for for the live, weekly gatherings where we will focus our time on opportunities for deeper discussion of the issues and facilitation practice. It is important that you build time into your schedule for both of these components.
Live Weekly Sessions: (All Times are Eastern)
* April 17, 2024 | 12:00-2:00pm
* April 24, 2024 | 12:00-2:00pm
* May 1, 2024 | 12:00-2:00pm
* May 8, 2024 | 12:00-2:00pm
*May 15, 2024 | 12:00-2:00pm
- Teacher: Suzanne Cagle
- Teacher: Melissa Lee
- Teacher: Michael Polizzotti
- Teacher: Scott Slattery
For experienced facilitators interested in expanding their facilitation skills and implementing this training program as instructors, we are offering a Train the Trainer course concurrent with the core Building Your Virtual Facilitation Skills training.
Train the Trainer participants will be expected to engage in core course content to gain familiarity with the content and structure of the training. In addition to core content, Train the Trainer cohort participants will participate in an additional hour per week of Live content as well as additional content on the course page to build skills in virtual content creation/adaptation and delivery.
Building Your Virtual Facilitation Skills, Train the Trainer participants will receive access to instructor materials including facilitator outlines for each session, course planning materials and web platform participant materials. Cohort sessions will explore implementation best practices, with technical support for adapting and implementing the training in your state.
Live Weekly Sessions, Fall Series: (All Times are Eastern)
Note: The first two hours of each live session are core content. The third hour includes only the train the trainer cohort.
* March 22, 2023 | 12:00-3:00pm
* March 29, 2023 | 12:00-3:00pm
* April 5, 2023 | 12:00-3:00pm
* April 12, 2023 | 12:00-3:00pm
*April 19, 2023 | 12:00-3:00pm
For any questions, please reach out to Sue Cagle at sue.cagle@unh.edu.
****This course is now full for the spring 2023 semester. Please contact the instructor with questions concerning future offerings.****- Teacher: Suzanne Cagle
The audience for this Buying a Tractor course is Farmers and land owners who are interested in learning how to select the correct tractor for the intended purpose.
For more information or to enroll please contact: Mark Hall, Auburn University/ Alabama Cooperative Extension System, at hallmah@auburn.edu
- Teacher: John Fulton
Welcome to the course!
Course Overview:
The overall program aims to promote mindful practices that lead to improvements in managing one’s own goals, developing a sense of self, time management, stress management, emotional regulation, and mindful eating practices. 4-H Mindful Mechanics can also serve as a training for teens that would like to lead lessons from the companion curriculum, 4-H Mindful Me, through a ‘teens as teachers’ (TAT) approach.
- The course is designed for teens ages 13-18 and adult leaders.
For more Information about this course, please contact:
Anne Iaccopucci, PhD
4-H Healthy Living Academic Coordinator II
University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources
Email: amiaccopucci@ucanr.edu
- Teacher: Dorina Espinoza
- Teacher: Marcel Horowitz
- Teacher: Anne Iaccopucci
Course Overview:
The purpose of the California 4-H Presentation Program is to help youth improve their public speaking abilities. Presentation events are one strategy to reach this goal by allowing youth to practice the knowledge and skills gained and receive constructive feedback on their progress. This requires that evaluations be accurate and consistent.
The Presentation Evaluator Certification is designed to prepare individuals to evaluate California 4-H presentations accurately and consistently. This course consists of two parts:
- Presentation Evaluator Orientation Course which is designed to provide an overview of the presentation program while offering best practices on how to effectively complete a presentation evaluation assessment and provide written feedback.
- Presentation Format Calibration Certifications
which offer individuals an opportunity to
measure their level of evaluation expertise for each presentation format
through a series of calibration exams.
Learners who successfully calibrate each presentation format with a score of 80% or greater will receive an electronic badge, certificate, and are certified to evaluate on that specific presentation format. When all presentation formats have been successfully completed, the individual will earn the "Master 4-H Presentation Evaluator" achievement badge and certificate.
This course is designed for individual participation and not for group settings.
Who Should Attend:
The course is designed for California 4-H volunteers or program partners, ages 16 and up, who
desire to be a presentation evaluator at county, regional, or state
presentation events.
Technical Support
If you are experiencing technical difficulties with any portion of this course, please submit a help ticket at http://bit.ly/4hsupport.
Sections of the course may take longer to load based on individual internet bandwidth and connectivity. Outdated technology such as legacy operating systems or older versions of web browsers may affect access to this course or the quality of this training experience.
- Teacher: Vera M. Bullard
- Teacher: Zeva Cho
- Teacher: CA 4-H eXtension Tech Support
- Teacher: Nicole Marshall-Wheeler
- Teacher: Gemma Miner
The audience for this course is urban pesticide applicators, Master Gardeners and other state extension educators.
Students will learn to calculate pesticide applications using real equipment calibration examples.
By the end of the series, you will be able to:
• Calculate basic pesticide math.
• Calibrate yourself to your equipment.
• Calculate pesticide applications.
These courses are built for a desktop computer.
For more information, please contact University of Idaho Extension at cals-ipm@uidaho.edu.
- Teacher: cals ipm
This course was developed primarily for professional pesticide applicators working in Right of Way, but can be helpful to anyone who applies pesticides as part of their employment. Students will learn the importance of adding the correct amount of pesticide
to a mix, to calculate the area or volume to be treated and to calculate the right amount of pesticides. If you are a pesticide applicator who is seeking recertification or just want to increase your general knowledge of pesticide calculations
this course is for you. Each example and problem is category specific.
For more information contact Rachel Maccini.
The fee for this course is $40. To purchase and enroll in the course, click the following button:
- Teacher: Faye Cragin
- Teacher: Rachel Maccini
This course was developed primarily for professional pesticide applicators working in Structural Pest Control, but can be helpful to anyone who applies pesticides as part of their employment Students will learn the importance of adding the correct amount of pesticide to a mix, to calculate the area or volume to be treated and to calculate the right amount of pesticides. If you are a pesticide applicator who is seeking recertification or just want to increase your general knowledge of pesticide calculations this course is for you. Each example and problem is category specific.\
For more information contact Rachel Maccini.
For more information contact Rachel Maccini.
- Teacher: Faye Cragin
- Teacher: Rachel Maccini
This course was developed primarily for professional pesticide applicators working in Turf, but can be helpful to anyone who applies pesticides as part of their employment. Students will learn the importance of adding the correct amount of pesticide to a mix, to calculate the area or volume to be treated and to calculate the right amount of pesticides. If you are a pesticide applicator who is seeking recertification or just want to increase your general knowledge of pesticide calculations this course is for you. Each example and problem is category specific.
For more information contact Rachel Maccini.
The fee for this course is $40. To purchase and enroll in the course, click the following button:
- Teacher: Faye Cragin
- Teacher: Rachel Maccini


Este curso aborda varios métodos de calibración y tipos de equipos utilizados para gestionar malezas herbáceas y lechosas en muchos de los diferentes ecosistemas de California. El curso está disponible de forma gratuita. Contiene videos, por lo que se requiere un dispositivo que pueda reproducir audio y video.
¿Quién debería inscribirse en este curso?
Cualquier persona que trabaje con equipos de aplicación de herbicidas para el control de malezas lechosas y herbáceas en áreas no agrícolas.
Créditos de Educación Contínua
Departamento de Reglamentación de Pesticidas de California (0.5 hour Laws & Regs and 1.5 hours Other).
Período de inscripción
Este curso debe completarse antes del 30 de diciembre del año en curso. Descargue el certificado inmediatamente después de completar el curso. No podrá recuperar su certificado después del 30 de diciembre.
¿Necesita ayuda?
Para obtener ayuda con el inicio de sesión, la inscripción al curso o el pago, comuníquese con campushelp@extension.org. Para obtener ayuda con el progreso del curso o certificado, comuníquese
con UCIPMcourses@ucanr.edu.
- Technical support: UC IPM Online Training Support

Course Overview:
How You Will Benefit:
- Learn how to set up bank accounts and understand procedures for check signing
- Learn what a budget is, why they are important, and how to create a successful one
- Learn how to receive cash and other payments, accept gifts, and deposit and record money
- Understand California 4-H fundraising guidelines
- Learn how to write checks and complete a check register
- Understand how to complete accounting records for spending money
- Learn how to reconcile bank accounts and how to prepare a monthly report for your club
Approximate Time Commitment:
20 minutes
Option #1: Complete the whole training in order (does not have to be done in one sitting)
Option #2: Complete one section at at time in any order (does not have to be done in one sitting)
- California 4-H Club Treasurers and the adults who support them
For more Information about the course:
Scott C. Mautte
4-H Program Representative for Volunteer Development
University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources
Email: idevelopsupport@ucanr.edu
- Teacher: Zeva Cho
- Teacher: CA 4-H eXtension Tech Support
- Teacher: Gemma Miner


ABOUT THIS COURSE
Course Overview:
The Civic Engagement Officer Training will explore the roles and responsibilities of a 4-H Civic Engagement Officer.
How You Will Benefit:
- Strategies for developing a service-learning committee
- Provide tools to educate clubs in community service and service-learning
- Learn the steps of planning a service-learning project
- Review the steps to reporting event progress
Approximate Time Commitment:
20 minutes
Who Should Attend:- 4-H Members desiring to be a Civic Engagement Officer
- Adult Staff and Volunteers who are supporting Civic Engagement Officers
- Civic Engagement Committee Members
This course is currently only offered to participants of the California 4-H Youth Development Program.
- Teacher: Zeva Cho
- Teacher: Jenna Colburn
- Teacher: CA 4-H eXtension Tech Support
- Teacher: Gemma Miner
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Adult Volunteers and senior member youth who volunteer at the county level to evaluate Record Books at County Competition.
COURSE OVERVIEW:
This short course is
designed for adult volunteers and senior member youth who volunteer at the
county level to evaluate Record Books at County Competition. Youth members
enter Record Book competitions as an optional opportunity to receive feedback
on their 4-H record-keeping and 4-H skills development. The course gives an
overview of the evaluation rubric, how to score and how to write helpful
comments. You will receive an electronic badge and a certificate upon
completion. Thank you for your time and talent to provide encouragement and
support to 4-H youth.
COMPLETION TIME:
30 Minutes
TECHNICAL NOTE:
This training works best with Mozilla Firefox. Download it for free here.
- Technical Support: idevelopsupport@ucanr.edu
- Course Information: Gemma Miner gmminer@ucanr.edu
- 4-H State Administrator: Zeva Cho
- 4-H State Administrator: CA 4-H eXtension Tech Support
- 4-H State Administrator: Gemma Miner
This "course" serves as a first level of support for users of the Extension Foundation Campus, its online course system. It provides a set of frequently asked questions designed to help users do some of their own troubleshooting, but also displays instructions for how to contact the Campus help desk.
- Teacher: Deb Weitzenkamp
This is a restricted course and only available to participants accepted into the University of Nevada Reno, Extension CDA Training and Coaching Program.
- Teacher: Desiree Cabacar
- Teacher: Savannah Castanon
- Teacher: Janelle Jamero
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Erin Skaggs
- Teacher: Rebecca Vizina
- Teacher: Lisa Whipple
- Teacher: Sarah Wright
This is a restricted course and available only for enrolled Child Development Associate Students.
- Teacher: Savannah Castanon
- Teacher: Janelle Jamero
- Teacher: Cathryn Peshlakai
- Teacher: Erin Skaggs
- Teacher: Rebecca Vizina
- Teacher: Lisa Whipple
- Teacher: Sarah Wright