Ill. Admin. Code tit. 50, § 3119.60 - Continuing Education Requirements
a) The certification must be received by the
Director at least 30 days prior to any course being offered.
b) For purposes of this Section, "full
credit" shall mean the reasonable amount of time, as certified by the provider ,
that is necessary for a student to study for and pass an examination, or in the
case of a course with no examination, the number of documented classroom
attendance hours.
c) Courses shall
be intended to increase the knowledge and understanding of insurance principles
and coverages, applicable laws, insurance regulations, agency management,
customer service and sales. The following courses shall not be considered for
continuing education:
1) Courses used for
insurance pre-licensing training or insurance qualifying examination
preparation.
2) Courses with less
than 1 hour of certified continuing education credit.
3) Courses in excess of 12 hours of certified
continuing education credit.
d) For purposes of this Section, the minimum
number of hours may be made up of any combination of classroom, seminar, or
self-study hours.
e) One credit
will be awarded for each 50 minutes of contact instruction .
f) No credit shall be given for a self-study
course if the student does not successfully complete the examination. If the
student fails an examination and successive examinations are given, the
successive examinations must be substantially different from each other.
Self-study courses are subject to the following additional requirements:
1) No students shall evaluate their own
examination. The evaluation of the examination must be completed by the
provider ;
2) No provider shall
furnish the answers to an examination prior to the student completing the
examination;
3) Self-study exams
must contain at least 25 questions. The number of questions must increase
proportionately as the amount of material increases;
4) No more than a third of the questions
shall be true/false; and
5) Credit
hours shall be determined by the time it may take a student to study the
material using 10 81/2" by 11" full pages per credit hour (10-12 point font
text), single line spacing with 1" margins.
g) Interactive Online Courses
1) The course must
provide at least 5 questions after each unit or chapter. The questions must be
answered prior to proceeding to the next unit or chapter. The material may be
reviewed while answering questions;
2) The course must provide clear instructions
on how to navigate through the course ;
3) The course must provide the ability to go
back and review any unit at any time;
4) The course must provide online viewing
access to the Department at all times;
5) The course must include a statement that
the student information will not be sold or distributed to any third party
without prior written consent of the student. Taking the course shall not
constitute consent;
6) The course
must provide some type of encryption. All personal information, including
credit card number, name and address of the student must be encrypted so that
the information cannot be read as it passes across the Internet;
7) Students must affirm that they, and only
they, completed the course ; and
8)
The course must include the ability to contact an instructor (i.e., automated
e-mail).
h) LTC Training
Credit
1) Continuing education credit may be
earned based on the criteria established in Section
3119.65.
2) Training credit may be obtained after a
failed examination if the provider gives, and the student successfully
completes, a substantially different examination.
3) If a student receives training credit
only, the provider shall issue a proof of completion certificate to the student
but the certificate shall be prominently stamped "NO CON-ED CREDIT".
Notes
Amended at 34 Ill. Reg. 5856, effective April 7, 2010
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