USDA Foods Online Training

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1 USDA Foods Online Training Now available at USDA Foods Primer 1 USDA Foods Primer 2 Life Cycle of USDA Foods USDA Foods Processing 101 USDA Foods Disaster Preparedness For more USDA Foods resources, go to: foods/usda foods toolkit

2 USDA Foods Online Training Quick Start Guide Thank you for your interest in the new USDA Foods Online courses hosted on the Institute of Child Nutrition website. This is a quick start guide to help you to locate and register for the USDA Foods Online training courses. Getting Started To get started, you will need to go to the Institute of Child Nutrition website: Go to: Once you are on the ICN homepage you will need to go to the upper right hand corner of the webpage. 1

3 Follow the prompts & come back here to find out how to register for USDA Foods online courses and click on register. Follow the prompts to register as a user. Registration is free. After you register, come back to these instructions to continue learning how to locate and register for USDA Foods online training courses. After registration, you will receive a confirmation , welcoming you to the Institute for Child Nutrition and a link to prompt you to log in to their website. ICN Login This is where you will enter your address and the new password you just created during registration. 2

4 On the next screen that comes up, click on Online Courses on the grey menu bar. Then click on the Child Nutrition Tab. It will take you to the Child Nutrition Online Course listing. Scroll down the list of courses until you find the USDA Foods courses. Click on Register Now, to register for a course. You can only register for one course at a time. Select My Own Use. 3

5 Then it will bring you back to this screen. Select My Courses. The screen will then refresh to show the courses you have registered for. To register for more courses, go back to Online Course Catalog and Child Nutrition tab to scroll back down again to select additional USDA Foods courses. You are now ready to start an online course. Click on the course name and the online training will launch. The course is self paced, so if you need to stop mid stream, you can. Then when you are ready to go back to it, it will pick up where you left off. Each online training course has instructions within the course to help you navigate the training. ICN Online Course Certificates At the end of the course you will be able to print out a certificate of completion which shows how many Continuing Education Units (CEUs) you earned by completing the course. Simply click on My Certificates on the left navigation bar and online instructions will prompt you to view or print your certificate. 4

6 ICN Online Course Certificates You can view your certificate by clicking on the course title, or you can export it to print an Adobe version of the certificate and save it to your computer. ICN Online Course Certificates Here is an example of the course completion certificate. The course certificate indicates the hours of instruction which you completed. That translates into Continuing Education Units. This certificate is worth 3 CEUs. Congratulations! You're now ready to begin your USDA Foods Online Training! ICN has many other online training courses for schools and State Agencies, that you are also able to take. They have quite an extensive training library. After you have completed the USDA Foods Online Training Courses, we recommend that you return and register for the USDA Procurement Training for State Agencies. 5