Online Evaluations & Certificate
To earn contact hours for sessions you attend during the live event, you will complete online evaluations. Options for completing your online evaluations include: in real-time as you go or at your convenience by November 1.
After evaluating the sessions you attended you’ll complete the Overall Evaluation, which will unlock your Certificate. Your Certificate will be pre-populated with your information and contact hours earned. You can email it, save a PDF to your computer, or print it.
Evaluations Deadline: November 1
Step-By-Step Instructions
- Logging In
- Session & Poster Evaluations
- Tracking your Contact Hours Earned
- Overall Evaluation
- Getting your Certificate
Logging In
Log In Here
Using your APNA username and password.
Remember, this log in is different from the one used for the conference site. Your username is the email address associated with your APNA account. If you are unsure of your password, call APNA at 855-863-2762 or click “Reset Password” and the system will email a link to you (it will come from inform@apna.org).
Session & Poster Evaluations
Please be sure to read this information before entering your evaluation responses.
Read the directions and information on the first page then scroll down to click the Continue button.
The Registered Events page will list the APNA 38th Annual Conference and includes 3 buttons:
- Session Evaluation: where you’ll access all of the individual session and poster evaluations
- Overall Evaluation: where you’ll complete the Overall Conference Evaluation
- Post Final Credits & Create Certificate: this button will be greyed-out until you have completed the Overall Evaluation.
To evaluate your sessions, start by clicking the Session Evaluation button. (Click the button that says Session Evaluation, not the circle below it.)
This will open the List of Days and Posters that are available as a part of your registration. Click Posters or the appropriate day to see the list of sessions available to evaluate.
Locate the session for which you’d like to enter responses by either the session ID # or the title. Click on the Evaluate button next to it.
You’ll return to the listing of sessions for that day. Continue to evaluate sessions for that day or use the buttons at the bottom of the page to return to the List of Days.
Poster Evaluations
Earn Up to 4 Contact Hours with Posters:
From the list of days page, press the Posters button.
Posters are listed in order of poster number and include the poster number, title, and learning outcome. Attest that you have reviewed the poster prior to evaluating and claiming NCPD contact hours. Please note you must hit save as you go, the site will time out after 30 minutes of inactivity.
The site will calculate the contact hours you earn based on the number of posters you evaluate:
- 6-8 posters = 1.0 contact hour
- 9-11 posters = 1.5 contact hours
- 12-14 posters = 2.0 contact hours
- 15-17 posters = 2.5 contact hours
- 18-20 posters = 3.0 contact hours
- 21-23 posters = 3.5 contact hours
- 24+ posters = 4.0 contact hours
When you are finished evaluating all posters you viewed and all sessions you attended on each of the days you attended, return to the Event Home – if you’re on the List of Days, click Return to Event Home.
Track Your Contact Hours Earned
Underneath the Event Listing on the home page: This will show your total contact hours earned. Pharmacology contact hours will be listed separately alongside total contact hours. Pharmacology contact hours will be clearly marked on your Certificate as well.
Overall Evaluation
When you are finished entering in all of your session evaluations (including posters), you are ready to complete the Overall Evaluation. Once you have completed the Overall Evaluation, you will not be able to edit your evaluation or claim credit for additional sessions.
You’ll need to either return to the list of days or to the welcome/instructions page in order to reach the Overall Evaluation button. If you’re on the list of days, the Return to Event Home button will get you there.
The Overall Evaluation is required in order to get your Certificate. Please remember to go back into the site and complete this evaluation so that your “Post Final Credits & Create Certificate” button will activate. Posting credits is required for the certificate and contact hours.
Note: If you have gone to the Overall Evaluation page prematurely (you haven’t finished all of your session evaluations), you can click Reset to Last Save to clear out your responses. Then press the back button on your browser.
Getting your Certificate
- Download & Print Certificate – This will open a pdf of your certificate. You can then save the pdf to your computer or print it.
- Email Your Certificate – This will prompt you to enter an email address where you’d like to receive the pdf of your Certificate.
QUESTIONS?
Send a detailed email, including your name and email address, where you are in the evaluation process including screenshots and/or URLs, and what issue you encountered to inform@apna.org.
