The previous training “counted” for that round of training, In 2018, 2021 and again in 2024, the expectation is that all employees are re-educated on updated content and new concepts and information that are important towards sexual misconduct prevention, harassment and discrimination prevention, as well as maintaining an inclusive environment for employees to work.  In addition to re-educating the community, BU is also subject to both federal and state laws which require ongoing education and training on these issues.

The re-training initiative was announced through an October 17, 2024 Memorandum from the Provost sent via email to all impacted employees and a Memorandum from the Provost & Senior Vice President for Operations was sent on October 28, 2024. Following these two Memos, an email sent via the Learning Management system Terrier eDevelopment was sent on October 29. The email from the LMS will provide instructions on how to access the training in order to complete it.
Going forward, new employees receive an email notice from the Learning Management System, and their supervisor is copied on that communication.

Please contact the Equal Opportunity Office at titleix@bu.edu or call 617-358-1796.

Please contact the Equal Opportunity Office’s University Title IX Coordinator at titleix@bu.edu. More information on Sexual Misconduct and Title IX at Boston University can be found on the Equal Opportunity Office website, which includes information on reporting incidents, resources, and other information.

• Vector Solutions Preventing Harassment and Discrimination: Supervisors with Title IX/Clery Module will take ~ 190 minutes (~ 3 hours, ten minutes) to complete.
• Vector Solutions Preventing Harassment and Discrimination: Non-Supervisors with Title IX/Clery Module will take ~130 (~ 2 hours, ten minutes) to complete.

All new employees (faculty and staff) receive an email within a few days of their start date, notifying them that they have two weeks to complete the training. The email comes from the Learning Management System. If the new employee fails to complete the module, they will receive several overdue notices until they complete the assignment.

Yes, you CAN take the Supervisor course. Note that the Supervisor course contains all of the same information as the non-supervisor course, plus some additional information for campus supervisors and leaders. Therefore, if you take the supervisor course, you will show up as having completed both the Supervisor and the Non-Supervisor course.

Answer: Yes, as a Supervisor, you may also take the Non-supervisor course. However, note that while parts of the Non-Supervisor course are identical to the content in the Supervisor course, the Supervisor course contains additional elements and details. Note that as a Supervisor assigned to the Supervisor course,  if you first take and complete the Non-Supervisor course, you will not have fulfilled your assigned course, and you will still have to go through the entire Supervisor course assigned to you in order to fulfill your training requirement.

The course content and platform were built by the vendor with  accessibility technology as a key consideration. The courses and course platform are considered WCAG 2.0 accessible, and when the course is launched, you will see accessibility features available throughout. If the technology accessibility features are not enough for your particular needs, you should contact the Equal Opportunity Office (www.bu.edu/eoo), (617) 358-1796; email: eoo@bu.edu. 

The training is considered part of your duties as a BU employee, but there are distinctions on this for different types of employees.

• Non-Exempt Staff: For those who are paid an hourly wage, and are considered an “non-exempt” employee, training should be completed during your regular workday. You may not participate in training outside of your scheduled work hours without your manager’s consent.
• Exempt Staff: For those who are paid on a salary or per course basis, training is considered part of the routine duties and responsibilities of the role for which you are being paid.

The courses are able to be taken in other languages through the course. A selection within the course will allow you to select from a list of available languages.

Yes, faculty on sabbatical are still expected to complete the training.

Your manager, at their discretion, may require you to take the Preventing Harassment and Discrimination: Supervisors with Title IX/Clery Course due to your job responsibilities even if you do not manage direct reports.

Vector Solutions is an education vendor (formerly EverFi) who supplies the course content and platforms that BU uses to deliver education to students and employees on important topics. Vector Solutions has a catalog of available higher education employee courses found on their website. Student course information is also available on Vector Solutions website. For more information on using an Vector Solutions course(s) in your school, college, or unit, please contact either the Compliance Services Office at comply@bu.edu and/or the Organizational Development & Learning (OD&L) Office at ODL@bu.edu.

EverFi was our training vendor that was purchased by Vector Solutions. On certain materials, you may see reference to EverFi, but Vector Solutions is the official vendor providing BU with training content and platforms for the employee and student populations.

Populations who are both employees and students have to take multiple courses assigned to them based on their student and employee status/roles. The courses are tailored to each population, and the student course is different than the employee course.

Once you begin a module, you can start and stop your training and your progress is saved, except in the middle of a video. Please note that the percentage of completion only records 3 times, beginning (0%), halfway through (50%) and completed (100%). If you log out and back in to the course, the time you have spent on the course should be accurate, but the % will most-likely not be. If you reload the page and would like to resuming where the you left off (if it did not do this automatically), within the course itself there is a horizontal menu across the top right-hand side of the browser window. Click the “MENU” option to see the sections of the course. You can move within sections already completed.

• Completion times depend upon the individual taking the course. However, we have compiled approximations for each course:
  • Employee Courses
    • Vector Solutions Preventing Harassment and Discrimination: Non-Supervisors with Title IX/Clery Module (All Supervisor faculty and staff) ~130 (~ 2 hours, ten minutes)
    • Vector Solutions Preventing Harassment and Discrimination: Supervisors with Title IX/Clery Module (All non-supervisor faculty and staff) ~ 190 minutes (~ 3 hours, ten minutes)
  • Student Courses: 
    • Vector Solutions Sexual Assault Prevention for Undergraduate students (Freshman and new incoming students)~ 90 minutes
    • Vector Solutions Sexual Assault Prevention for Graduate students (All new graduate students)~ 90 minutes
    • Vector Solutions Sexual Assault Prevention for Student Athletes (Annual Varsity Athlete Requirement) ~ 45 minutes
    • Vector Solutions AlcoholEdu for College Students ~ 120 minutes
    • Vector Solutions Sexual Assault Prevention Ongoing: Taking Action (Student Re-Training) ~ 30 minutes

Yes, if you have been promoted to a supervisory position, you will be required to complete the Supervisor Harassment and Discrimination Prevention training. This is required even if you previously completed a non-supervisor requirement. Upon launching the course, you may receive a message indicating that, “You already completed this course”. Please click Retake to continue through that message and onto the activity. Please submit a ticket to ithelp@bu.edu if you have any questions.

Yes, you still have to take Boston University’s assigned training; No, you cannot be exempted based on your completion of a similar course for a different organization, including BMC’s training on sexual harassment awareness and prevention. Boston University’s employee trainings cover aspects of BU’s policies, procedures, processes, and resources that are specific to our institution. Therefore, another training from a different organization is not an appropriate substitute for the BU training. Additionally, the courses cover more issues than sexual misconduct and sexual misconduct prevention. They feature employment concepts, including discrimination and harassment prevention, creating an inclusive workplace, accessibility and accommodation issues, and also provide helpful examples for how to handle employment situations as an employee or as a supervisor. For all these reasons, a different organization’s course is not an appropriate substitute for the content and institution-specific information covered in the assigned BU course.

Details on the course structure and topics covered within each section of the training can be found through materials published by the training vendor Vector Solutions. Please use the following links: Preventing Harassment and Discrimination: Supervisors with Title IX/Clery Module and Preventing Harassment and Discrimination: Non-Supervisors with Title IX/Clery Module for those additional details from the vendor.

Courses are tailored to supervisor and non-supervisor populations. The courses provide information and education on the following topics: Preventing Harassment and Discrimination

• Building positive workplaces and work cultures, including cultivating positive, productive, and professional attitudes in the workplace, and promoting and supporting a workplace culture of respect
• Identifying and preventing harmful conduct in the workplace, specifically harassment, discrimination, and retaliation, and responding to that problematic behavior, including addressing through appropriate interventions
• Bystander intervention and its importance to maintaining a respectful workplace
• Microaggressions and implicit bias
• Reporting misconduct, including reporting harassment, discrimination, and retaliation
• Providing accommodations, tools, and support in the workplace

Preventing Sexual Misconduct, including and Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault

• Recognizing, preventing, and reporting sexual misconduct and sexual assault to maintain a safe campus community, and resources for sexual misconduct prevention
• Title IX and Clery Act compliance
• Sexual and interpersonal violence awareness and prevention
• Building positive relationships, forms of relationship abuse, and laws concerning dating and domestic violence
• Education on concepts such as consent and stalking
• Bystander intervention and recognizing barriers to intervention
• Responding supportively to disclosures of sexual assault or sexual misconduct
• The grievance process for cases of sexual misconduct

Please contact the Compliance Services Office at comply@bu.edu. The majority of the content within the training is created by the training vendor Vector Solutions. Any concerns or questions about the content and scenarios within the training are collected by the Compliance Services Office and passed along to the vendor for their consideration.

Please contact the Equal Opportunity Office’s University Title IX Coordinator at titleix@bu.edu if you have concerns about completing the training due to its content or you previously received a waiver from participating in sexual misconduct prevention education. More information on Sexual Misconduct and Title IX at Boston University can be found on the Equal Opportunity Office website, which includes information on reporting incidents, resources, and other information.

There have been a few instances where employees have completed the training but did not receive an email, and their completion status in the LMS still says that they have not completed the course. If  you think you are in this situation, please email ithelp@bu.edu or calling 617-353-HELP (4357). If you have completed the course, IS&T will be able to see that and adjust your completion status accordingly.

Checking on completion status is set up as a self-service through a the Learning Management system Terrier eDevelopment. Supervisors have access to a reporting feature through the LMS (available at this quick link) that allows them to run a report of who has completed the training. Completion takes about 12 hours to show up on a supervisors profile, so if it does not show up immediately, please allow for one business day. There is a large green button at the top of this webpage labeled “Reports” that you can also press – it brings you directly to the LMS quick link to the page where supervisors can view completion for all those who report up to them.

The Learning Management System has a self-service feature, available through this quick link, that allows managers to look up completion reports for the employees that report to them. An instructional document has been created to show you how to run completion reports on your employees. The instructions are available here: How to Access Sexual Misconduct Prevention Training Status Report.

If you are unable to move on/advance the training slide to the next page in the course (i.e. the Next page button is greyed out and not clickable), that means there is some content on the current page you haven’t yet engaged with. You must engage with that unreviewed content before the course will allow you to advance to the next page. How do you engage with the content? It depends. This could mean any of the following:

• clicking on the various graphics which contain definitions or examples behind them (the content flips and becomes visible when you click it);
• you have to click on a Massachusetts or Federal statute and scroll to review its text;
• you have to answer the quiz question correctly; or
• you have to open and review the Policy, then click the Policy attestation.

The actions you have to take to be able to advance the slide are distinct depending on the page of the course you are on. The pages are all different and require different action to advance because Vector Solutions course pages are purposefully distinct in order to promote better engagement with the course content by the user.

Try exiting the course and relaunching it to see if the course will then allow you to click the “I agree” button. That will hopefully refresh the course and allow you to move forward. Also, please make sure that pop-up blockers are disabled. If you are still stuck, here are other troubleshooting steps you may take: (1) Switch browsers. Use Chrome or Firefox when you can instead of Internet Explorer. You can also check and update your browser to the most recent version, which can be done using this website: https://www.whatismybrowser.com; (2) Clear Cache: https://support.everfi.com/sims/helpcenter/common/layout/SelfhelpArticleView.seam?inst_name=_Everfi&article_id=2020-1480216; (3) Check and update your browser to the most recent version: https://www.whatismybrowser.com; (4)Make sure that you are meeting minimum system requirements, which can be found here: https://everfi.com/minimum-system-requirements/; (5) Go to https://www.bu.edu/tech/support/browsers/display-mixed-content/mac/enable-cookies-and-javascript/ and ensure that Javascript and cookies are enabled.

For technical help accessing the training, please contact the IS&T Service Desk by sending an email to ithelp@bu.edu or calling 617-353-HELP (4357).

Information about the LMS generally can be found on a BU TechWeb page.