CEU - Proctor Requirements for Continuing Education (CE)
Review and understand your state's proctor rules prior to selecting your course. Note: due to COVID 19, rules change frequently. Students are responsible for meeting state requirements.
| STATE OR GOVERNING BODY | PROCTOR REQUIREMENTS |
|---|---|
| Alaska, Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington | Students are not required to have a proctor. |
| Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, South Carolina, Vermont, Washington DC, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming | Exams must be proctored by an impartial third party with no financial interest in the licensee’s success. Cannot be a minor, relative, spouse, or anyone with a direct reporting relationship. Co-workers are acceptable as long as there is no reporting relationship. COVID Updates: Vermont: Proctor requirements waived until further notice |
| Alabama | Exams must be proctored by a disinterested third-party, with a minimum age of 18 years, who can be any person except for family members or individuals who have a financial interest in the success of the student taking the examination. Co-worker proctors must not be above or below in the student’s line of supervision. |
| Arkansas | Exams must be proctored by an impartial third party with no financial interest in the licensee’s success. Cannot be anyone with familial or financial relationship, including family members, relatives, dependents, employers or supervisors, subordinates, partners or joint venters or co-workers, former or current teachers or pupils, neighbors, personal friends or significant others. |
| Indiana | Exams must be administered by a proctor, defined as a licensed producer (preferably licensed in Indiana). A producer who takes the examination at a testing center that administers tests for professional designations may have a representative of the testing center sign the affidavit rather than a licensed producer. |
| Maine | For correspondence courses, the final exam must be a closed book, proctored exam. |
Minnesota
| For correspondence course (TI courses), self-study examinations must be either an encrypted online examination; or, a paper examination that is monitored by a proctor, defined as an impartial third party with no financial interest in the licensee’s success who cannot be a minor, relative, spouse or anyone with a direct reporting relationship. Co-workers are acceptable as long as there is no reporting relationship with the examinee. |
| New Jersey | For correspondence courses, exams must be administered by a proctor, defined as an impartial third party with no financial |
| North Carolina | All correspondence courses must have a proctored, closed book final exam. |
Oregon
| If the self-study course is a textbook, the examination must be conducted as a closed book, proctored examination. |
| Virginia | Proctors are only required for pen & paper exams. |