Forms & Requests

Mandated Reporter Volunteer Training

Volunteering, Chaperones, and Visitors

Volunteers and Chaperones

Overview

The Effingham County School District does not require everyone who visits a school to complete the Mandated Reporter training process, so to help differentiate between a school visitor, volunteer and chaperone we have created brief descriptions. Select a tab below for descriptions and instructions.

Volunteers & Chaperones - Required Training

✔️School Volunteers must complete the Mandated Reporter training prior to volunteering.
A school volunteer is a non-paid individual who serves, in any auxiliary capacity, under the direction and supervision of school personnel. A volunteer is one who performs any essential duties that an employee could perform such as, but not limited to making copies, filing, escorting students, working with extracurricular activity groups of assisting with lunch duty, media center and front office tasks. Any person who leads or assists student groups or students other than their own in school or extracurricular programs is considered a volunteer. Volunteers will typically serve in this capacity multiple times throughout the school year. All volunteers must complete the Mandated Reporter and Title IX Training prior to volunteering.

✔️Chaperones must complete the Mandated Reporter training prior to attending any off-campus school function.
A chaperone is any non-school personnel who attends an off-campus school activity, whether as a parent or official chaperone. All chaperones must have completed the Mandated Reporter and Title IX Training prior to attending any off-campus school function.

Visitors - No Training Required

❌ A parental visitor acting in the role of a parent is not required to register as a volunteer or complete the Mandated Reporter training. Examples include, but are not limited to, visitors to the school for parent/teacher conferences, 504/IEP meetings, schoolwide and classroom programs or events, PTO events, field day, eating lunch with their child or any visit to sign in or check out their student.

❌ A non-parental visitor is not required to register as a volunteer or complete the Mandated Reporter training. Non-parental visitors include, but are not limited to, community members, business owners/partners, civic leaders or emergency personnel who are visiting the school for a short, singular time and are under supervision of an administrator and/or teacher at all times.

Mandated Reporter-New Users

Mandated Reporter-Returning Users

INSTRUCTIONS FOR RETURNING PARENTS:

**If you have registered and created an account before, simply follow these guidelines:

Type effinghamcounty.compliancedirector.org into your browser.

Use the “LOGIN” function and enter your username and password. Your username is an email address (most likely your work email) and you created your own password when you originally registered your account.

If you receive a login error message, check to make sure you have typed your email address correctly and then check to be sure you have input the correct password. The error message will highlight the username (email) box, but the error can be either the username or the password. If you cannot remember your password or if you continue to get a login error and you believe you have input the correct email, then use the “Forgot your password?” function to reset your password. The password reset is time sensitive, so go immediately to your email account and follow the email instructions to reset your password.

(The required modules are the Mandated Reporter and Title IX ones.)

Here is how to access the required Training Modules for all Volunteers and Field Trip Chaperones:

NEW USER INSTRUCTIONS:

**If you are a new user if you have never registered a Compliance Director account with your current school district:

Step 1: Type effinghamcounty.compliancedirector.org into your browser.

Step 2: Click on the “Register” button in the top right corner.

Step 3: Enter the information requested on the registration page. Your email address (preferably your work email) will become your username. You will create your own password. If you do not have a work email address, a personal email address may be used. Please check to be sure you typed both your username and your password correctly. If you mistype your email or your password during this step, you will not be able to login later when typing them in correctly.

You should remember your username and password.

The Effingham County Keyword is Assessment. *** This keyword is case sensitive***

Step 4: Once you are in your Dashboard, the modules are listed on the right. Click on the module you’d like to complete (your administration will have told you the modules to complete) and work your way through the module. Input your personal information at the end of the module and click “submit.” You will then find yourself back in your Dashboard, where you will see the modules you have completed on the left side of the page. Select the next module you wish to complete on the right side of the page and follow the same process until you have completed all the required modules. (The required modules are the Mandated Reporter and Title IX ones.)

To logout of your Dashboard, click on your name at the top of the page and click on “logout.”

Important: Once you begin a module, you must complete it in order to create your record of completion for that module. You cannot start, stop, and go back into the module where you left off at another time. You can log into and out of your Dashboard as often as you’d like to take new modules and to see or print a list of the modules you have completed.

**** You only need to register the first time you log into ComplianceDirector.org. After you have registered your account in the program, you will input your username and password to log in thereafter.