Faculty and Staff

Introductory Training

All new faculty, staff, and student employees are required to complete training on a range of topics based on employment status, work environment, and/or job responsibilities.  Specific training assignments will be communicated to the employee via email from UA LMS or by their supervisor.  Unless otherwise communicated, training for new or returning employees will be due within 60 days.

Title	Estimated Length	Audience
Child Abuse Awareness, Prevention, and Reporting	5-10 min	All new faculty, staff, and student employees
Clery Act and Campus Safety	25-30 min	Only Campus Security Officers
Cybersecurity Awareness	25-30 min	All new faculty, staff, and student employees
Digital Accessibility Essentials	15-20 min	New for Fall 2025: All faculty, staff, and student employees with limited exceptions
Equal Opportunity, Sexual Misconduct, and Title IX	30-45 min	All new faculty, staff, and student employees
FERPA: Confidentiality of Student Records	10-15 min	All new faculty, staff, and student employees
Fighting Identity Theft: The Red Flags Rule	20-30 min	Those who are new to working with covered accounts
GLBA Information Security Awareness Training	10-20 min	Those who are new to working with student financial data
HIPAA Basics	20-30 min	Only those who work with medical records
Introduction to Hazard Communication	5-10 min	All new faculty, staff, and student employees or those changing roles
Leave and Accommodations Introduction	20-30 min	Expanded for Fall 2025: All faculty and staff employees.
Managing Conflicts of Interest	15-20 min	All new faculty, staff, and student employees
PCI DSS Compliance Awareness	20-30 min	Only those who work with credit card terminals
Protecting Privacy	25-30 min	All faculty, staff, and student employees
Providing Academic Accommodations to Students with Disabilities	20-30 min	New Faculty, GTAs, Adjunct Instructors
Run, Hide, Fight: Active Threat Overview	10-15 min	All new faculty, staff, and student employees
Suicide Prevention: Ask, Listen, Refer	20-30 min	All new faculty, staff, and student employees
Understanding Your UA Fiscal Responsibilities	10-20 min	All new faculty, staff, and student employees

Annual Training

The annual training cycle runs from September 2 – October 31.  This training is required for all full or part-time faculty, staff, and student employees.  The courses assigned for annual training are different from those assigned as introductory training for new hires. Introductory training must be completed before annual review courses are assigned.

Title	Estimated Length	Audience
2025/26 Child Abuse Reporting Review	10-15 min	All faculty, staff, and student employees
2025/26 Clery Act and Campus Safety	25-30 min	Only Campus Security Officers
2025/26 Conflicts of Interest Disclosure Review	10-15 min	All regular full or part-time faculty and staff
2025/26 Cybersecurity Awareness Review	25-30 min	All faculty, staff, and student employees
2025/26 Equal Opportunity, Sexual Misconduct, and Title IX Review	30-45 min	All faculty, staff, and student employees
2025/26 FERPA Review	10-15 min	All faculty, staff, and student employees
2025/26 GLBA Review	10-15 min	Those who work with student financial data
2025/26 HIPAA Review	20-30 min	Only those who work with medical records
2025/26 Leave and Accommodations Review	25-30 min	All faculty and staff in Human Resources, Transportation Services, Security Resources, the College of Community Health Sciences, and the College of Human Environmental Sciences
2025/26 Office of Disability Services Annual Review	10-15 min	Faculty, GTAs, Adjunct Instructors
2025/26 PCI DSS Compliance Awareness Review	15-20 min	Only those who work with credit card terminals
2025/26 Protecting Privacy Review	25-30 min	All faculty, staff, and student employees
2025/26 Red Flags Refresher	25-30 min	Those who work with covered accounts

UA LMS

UA LMS is the learning management system used to provide required compliance training to University employees and guests. Faculty, staff, and student employees will be notified of required training through their supervisors and by email notification sent to the employees’ myBama (or Crimson) email address. New hires are added to UA LMS the day after their ePA is processed.  At that time, they are automatically assigned the required training and receive email notification of their due date.

To access UA LMS, click the button below and login with your myBama username and password.

Refer to the Compliance Training FAQs for more information about this year’s training assignments.

Training Academy

Training Academy is the system used to provide mandatory Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) compliance training to University employees and students. Specific EHS training may be assigned based on employment status, work environment, and/or job responsibilities. For questions regarding assignments or access to Training Academy contact Environmental Health & Safety.