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What is CITI?

CITI is a platform that hosts online human subjects research training. Completing one or more CITI courses may be a requirement of your funder or area of research (e.g. National Institutes of Health (NIH), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Defense (DoD) etc.). Some departments, labs, or research teams at NC State may also require CITI training courses. NC State has purchased a license from CITI for the following courses that all NC State affiliates can take free of charge:

• Biomedical Basic • Social-Behavioral-Educational Basic • Responsible Conduct of Research • Conflicts of Interest

A CITI course’s certificate of training is valid for three years from the date of issue. Please note that all CITI training is a general overview and not always specific to the NC State context. Therefore, we also encourage you to take advantage of the NC State IRB training video on the Research Compliance eLearning site and our in-person workshop sessions offered through the NC State University Libraries.

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How to Create and Use a CITI Online Training Account Registering for an account by first navigating to the CITI homepage. Once there, click the “Register” button on the upper right of your screen.

Click the “Register”

button to create a CITI account

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You’ll be brought to this page where you’ll select your organizational affiliation for your CITI account. Begin by typing North into the field in the “Select Your Organizational Affiliation” section.

Type North in this field

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A list of schools will appear after you type North. Select North Carolina State University, not North Carolina State University SSO.

Select North Carolina State University NOT North Carolina State

University SSO

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With NC State selected, agree to CITI’s Terms of Service and their Privacy Policy.

Click box to agree to CITI’s Terms of Service

and Privacy Policy

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You’ll also have to affirm that you’re currently affiliated with NC State. Then click the “Continue to Create Your CITI Program User Name and Password” button.

Make sure both boxes are checked before

clicking the “Continue to Create Your CITI

Program User Name and Password” button

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Enter your name, NC State email, and personal email into the appropriate boxes. Your NC State email address should be the primary email address as it will serve as a verifier for your affiliation with NC State. You can use a personal email address for the secondary email requested by CITI.

Enter your NC State email into these boxes.

Enter your secondary email address for your CITI account into these

boxes, which can be your personal email

address.

With all fields complete, click the

“Continue to Step 3” button

Enter your name into these boxes.

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Create a user name and password that is easy for you to remember. Please do not reuse

your UnityID and password for this

website.

Enter your answer for the security question

here. Keep in mind that the answer is case

sensitive.

Select a security question from the drop-

down menu

With all fields complete, click the

“Continue to Step 4” button

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Select country of residence and click “Continue to Step 5.”

Enter US in this box to have United States

appear as your country of residence

With the country of residence selected,

click the “Continue to Step 5” button

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On Step 5, you can choose to receive CE credit for the CITI courses you take (these may incur additional costs to you beyond the course fee that NC State pays for) and to agree to be contacted by CITI for things other than the course(s) you register for. Whatever you select on this page will not affect your CITI account set-up.

You can choose to have your CITI courses certified for CE credit with a number of professional

organizations. By selecting “yes,” you may incur additional fees

beyond the cost of the CITI courses that NC State pays for.

By selecting “no,” you will still be able to register for CITI courses and receive course completion

certificates, but without the additional CE certificate.

If you selected “yes” to the CE credit question immediately prior, here you

would select which CE credit certification you would like.

Generally, people choose the professional field that they are

affiliated with or a cognate field. Whether you click “Yes,” “Not sure” or

“No” to these questions will not

affect your CITI registration.

With all fields complete, click the

“Continue to Step 6” button

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On step 6, you will enter some personal information about yourself. Fields with red stars are required whereas fields without red stars don’t require an answer to create your CITI account.

Any field with a red star next to the prompt

must be answered to create your CITI

account

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Once all of the fields of step 6 with red stars are completed, click the “Continue to Step 7” button.

Select the most appropriate listing for your role with human

subjects research at NC State

With all red starred fields complete, click the “Continue to Step

7” button

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On step 7, you get to select the CITI courses that you want to register for that are paid for under NC State’s license with CITI.

There are two options for the CITI Basics course for NC State researchers. The first, Social Behavioral, is appropriate for

most NC State research teams. The Biomedical course

is for the Biomedical Engineering department at

NC State.

Here’s where you’d select the Responsible Conduct of

Research course

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Unless you are an institutional/signatory official at NC State, you do not need

to select this course You are not required to take Conflicts of Interest (COI) to do human subjects research at NC State, but it is a good

course to take

Once you’ve selected all the courses you want to take, click the “Complete

Registration” button

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After you clicked the “Complete Registration” button, you’ll see this page. Click the “Finalize Registration” button.

Click this button

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The “Finalize Registration” button will redirect you to log in to CITI using your newly created user name and password you selected on step 3 of the CITI account creation process. Enter your user name and password. Then click the “Log In” button.

Enter your user name and password that you selected on

step 3 of the CITI account creation form. Remember that both are case sensitive fields.

With your user name and password entered, click the “Log In” button

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After logging in, you will see NC State listed on your account’s landing page. To access the CITI courses that you registered for during the CITI account registration process, click the button, “View Courses.”

Click here to access the CITI courses you selected

during the account registration process.

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You’ll then see all of the CITI courses that you’re registered for in the “Courses Ready to Begin” section. When you start a CITI course, it will list under the “Active Courses” section. When you complete a course, the course will move from the “Active Courses” section to the “Completed Courses” section. You will be able to access and your course completion certificates at the end of each CITI course. Each course completion is valid for 3 years from the date of issue. Refresher courses are also available to you to renew your initial course certificate. Contact the IRB office (irb-coordinator-ed@ncsu.edu) for more details if you wish to take the refresher before your course completion certificate has expired or if you have questions/problems with the CITI registration process.

Here’s where all the courses you initially registered for in the account registration process will be listed

To begin any

course, click the

“Start Now”

button for the course you want

to take