Required Annual Training
Required online training for first-year students, student athletes, and student leaders.
Annual training covering Title IX and sexual misconduct topics is required for all first-year students, student leaders, and student athletes. New employees also must complete Title IX training during the onboarding process.
New Students
All first-year undergraduate, graduate, professional, and transfer students at the University are required to complete comprehensive online student onboarding to educate about domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault, in compliance with applicable federal laws, including the Clery Act as amended by the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization of 2013, 20 U.S.C. 1092(f) and New York State Education Law Article 129-B. Additionally, this online training module covers other important topics such as:
- Bystander intervention and the importance of taking action to prevent violence when one can safely do so;
- The role of the Title IX Coordinator;
- Relevant definitions, including but not limited to, the definitions of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, confidentiality, privacy, and consent;
- How to report sexual violence, and
- Consequences and sanctions for individuals who commit these crimes and code of conduct violations.
This training is administered online utilizing the student Blackboard portal and is issued each academic semester to all new students. Students receive emails from Blackboard about their assigned training and must utilize their University Active Directory credentials to log in. To locate this training, navigate to ‘Organizations’ found on the left side of the platform. The training launched on August 25, 2025.
All new students are required to complete this course by the assigned due date: 10/10/2025.
New Students who do not complete their training by 10/10/2025 will result in a ‘Title IX Training’ hold placed onto the student’s account, which prohibits them from registering for courses.
Holds are removed via an automated process twice a day and cannot be removed on an individual request basis. Check your UR Student Account periodically for any updates on the removal of holds or restrictions.
Student Athletes and Student Leaders
In compliance with the New York State Education Law Article 129-B, all University of Rochester Student Athletes, Student Leaders, and officers of student organizations are required to complete training on domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, or sexual assault prevention.
This training is administered online utilizing the student Blackboard portal and is required to be completed each academic calendar year. Athletes and Student Leaders receive emails from Blackboard about their assigned training and must utilize their University Active Directory credentials to log in. To locate this training, navigate to ‘Organizations’ found on the left side of the platform. The training launched on August 15, 2025.
All Student Leaders and Student Athletes are required to complete this course by the assigned due date: 10/10/2025.
Student Leaders who do not complete their training by 10/10/2025 are prohibited from registering events or reserving event space on campus.
Student Athletes who do not complete their training by 10/10/2025 are prohibited from competing in matches, meets, competitions, or practices.
Frequently Asked Questions about Mandatory Training
This training is administered online utilizing the student Blackboard portal. Students receive emails from Blackboard about their assigned training and must utilize their University Active Directory credentials to log in. To locate this training, navigate to ‘Organizations’ found on the left side of the platform and look for the training titled ‘Title IX & Sexual Misconduct Prevention Training for First Year Students’ or ‘Mandatory Refresher on Title IX and Sexual Misconduct Prevention for Student Athletes and Student Leaders’. If you see both, then you are assigned to take both trainings.
First-year students are required to complete their mandatory training. Those who do not complete the training by the due date receive a registration hold on their student account. This hold is removed once you complete your training.
Yes. All new students are required under several state and federal laws to complete comprehensive online student onboarding to educate about domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault, and other topics.
Yes, as you are considered a new student in a new program.
Yes, because the University considers you a new student once you come back from a leave and have to re-enroll in a previous or new program.
First, we always recommend logging back into Blackboard and checking your gradebook. If all three modules are not showing green or marked as complete, then you likely missed a module or part of a module. Additionally, all three quizzes required a minimum 80/100 (or 8/10) to be marked fully complete. If you received less than an 80 (or 8/10), you have not fully completed that module and must re-take it to receive a passing grade.
Once the system marks you as fully complete, it triggers an automated hold removal process that runs several times each day. Therefore, no individual requests for hold removals are granted. We recommend that students check their UR Student Account periodically for any updates on the removal of holds or restrictions.
Yes.
Common Technical Questions
Most issues with loading the training can be resolved with one of these three solutions:
- Try a different browser. Chrome and Firefox work best for most training. To do this, open an instance of Chrome or Firefox and type tech.rochester.edu/services/student-use-of-blackboard/ into the browser. Log in from there. You can contact University IT (5-2000) or ISD (5-3200) for additional browser assistance.
- Turn off pop-up blocker. Click here for instructions on how to turn off pop-up blocker in every internet browser.
- Clear your cache. Click here for how to clear your browser’s cache.
At this time, we recommend all users complete the training via a web browser, and not the Blackboard Mobile Application. For some users, the Blackboard Mobile Application will not open the training modules or record a user’s completion.
Yes. It has closed captioning, plays audio recordings, and is also accessible for screen readers. For any additional accommodations, please submit a web form request.