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Assignment 1: CITI Training

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Due Date: Sept 4, 2017

 You will be conducting various user studies throughout the course of the semester. Texas A&M University has an Institutional Review Board (IRB) that approves user study plans such as the ones you will be creating. Because you will be using human subjects for your user studies and observing their behaviors, you must complete the required IRB Certification training.  Everyone is responsible for completing their own certification. The steps for completing the IRB Certification can be found in below:

Step 1: Click on the following link to the CITI training page: CITI training site

Step 2: Click the “Register” button on the top right of the page.

Step 3: On the next screen, in the section titled "Select Your Organization Affiliation", enter "Texas A&M University" in the text field for "Search for organization: Enter full or partial name", and directly select "Texas A&M University" from the selection list.

 Step 4: Click the checkbox for "I AGREE to the Terms of Service for accessing CITI Program materials".

Step 5: Click the button labeled "Continue to Step 2" to continue CITI registration

 Step 6: Enter the following information
  • First Name
  • Last Name
  • Email address- the email used needs to match the email address in My Assistant information in iRIS. CITI allows two email addresses to be given in case a researcher wants an additional email used
  • User Name
  • Password
Step 7: Enter the following information

Step 8: Enter demographic information

Step 9: Determine if Continuing Education Credits are applicable to you

Step 8: Provide additional information requested by Texas A&M

Step 9: Select Group 2: Social and Behavioral Research

Step 10: After you have finished all the modules and passed the course (you need to earn an overall score of 90% for Required Modules) click the View-Print-Share link under Completion Records. Click the first link and save that report as a PDF. Upload this PDF to the Google Drive (For more details on the Google Drive, see Assignment 2).


IF YOU HAVE ALREADY COMPLETED CITI TRAINING
Step 1: Click on the following link to the CITI training page: CITI training site

Step 2: Click the "Log In" button.
NOTE: This is a random user name and password that you created and has nothing to do with any other user name at TAMU. You may need to clock "Retrieve Username" or "Reset Password" below.
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