NIRSA Officiating Flag Football Online Course

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NIRSA Officiating Flag Football Online Course
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Why an Online Course?

• Officiating Flag Football online course lets you
• quickly teach officiating to students who have
  never been officials before.
• allow students to work at their own pace, any
  time, day or night.
• provide students with interactive, interesting
  materials that they can review over and over
  again.
• ensure consistent training for all applicants.

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Whats in the Online Course?

• Course teaches
• Philosophy of officiating and communication and
  decision-making on the field
• Basic structure of flag football and its rules
• Officials pre-game responsibilities and duties
• Application of signals and procedures for downs,
  scoring plays, fouls, and the 4 enforcement
  principles
• Starting positions and responsibilities for each
  official in a 2-, 3- or 4-person crew

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• Course has 5 units
• Basics of Officiating
• Game Essentials and Rules Review
• Game Responsibilities
• Game Mechanics and Penalty Enforcement
• Officiating Mechanics
• It ends with a final test.

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Unit 1 Basics of Officiating

• This unit teaches
• Essential objectives of officiating
• Importance of verbal and nonverbal communication
  and listening
• Decision-making skills
• Conflict-resolution skills

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Unit 2Game Essentials and Rules Review

• In this unit students learn
• the basics of the game of flag football, and
• how to apply their knowledge of flag football
  rules.
• Before working through each unit, students read
  the relevant portions of the NIRSA Flag Football
  rules book, which is online.

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Unit 3Game Responsibilities

• Here learners are taught
• the general responsibilities of a flag football
  official
• the steps to take in conducting pregame meetings
  with officials and coaches or captains
• how to identify legal and illegal equipment and
• the procedures for the coin toss, timing, and
  overtime.

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Unit 4Game Mechanics Penalty Enforcement

• Here is where students learn to
• signal downs or scoring plays and determine punts
  correctly
• distinguish among dead ball fouls, fouls
  simultaneous with the snap, and live-ball fouls
• explain the four enforcement principles and
  special enforcements
• call a foul by signaling correctly and whistling,
  reporting the foul to the referee, and asking the
  captain for his choice (live-ball foul) and
• note special rules for corec and 4-on-4 games.

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Unit 5Officiating Mechanics

• In this final unit, students practice, for a
  2-person, 3-person, and 4-person crew
• identifying each officials starting position
  before and during a pass, run, or punt play, and
  in scoring situations
• determining the responsibilities of each official
  before and during a pass, run or punt play, and
  in scoring situations and
• reacting appropriately to play scenarios.

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• A special note
• Two-person crew procedures are not part of the
  final course test, so students arent required to
  complete that section.
• If your school uses two-person crews, however, a
  quiz appears at the end of the section. Students
  can print out their quiz results to confirm that
  they completed that section.

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The Course Test

• This test has 138 questions, which include the
  NIRSA rules test questions.
• Students can access the course and test for 1
  year after first accessing the course.
• Students can retake test once without a fee.
  Subsequent tries cost 10 each.
• After students pass the test, they no longer can
  access it.

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Course as Part of Existing Training

• Use the online course in one of several ways
• Preparation for pre-season rules clinic
• Supplement following pre-season rules clinic
• Introduction to flag football principles for
  applicants (in summer)
• Midseason or pre-playoff training

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• Sample Training Week
• Mon. Tell students how to access and complete
  course. Give deadline for completion.
• Tues. Cover material in first half of course.
• Wed. Cover material in second half of course.
• Thurs. Do field training, using NIRSA Training
  Stations.
• Fri. Offer work session for those who need help
  with online course.

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Course Access for Students

• Call ASEP at
• 1-800-747-5698
• to purchase the number of courses you need (phone
  orders only for bulk course purchases).
• After order has been processed, ASEP
• e-mails you a spreadsheet with key codes and
  distribution instructions.

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• Assign a key code to each student by
• e-mail or letter.
• Tell students to access the course through the
  ASEP website at
• www.ASEP.com

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• Once the student has logged in and the course
  comes up, the introduction explains how to
  navigate the course and general course
  information.

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• A drop-down menu can be opened from each screen,
  allowing students to navigate easily between
  units and within units.
• Students can also move backward and forward by
  clicking on the arrows at the bottom of each
  screen.

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• Within each unit, a progress bar at the bottom of
  each screen shows the student how much of the
  unit has been completed.
• The student may stop, then return and continue,
  at any place in the course.

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• Once a student has taken the test, you can check
  whether he or she has passed by accessing the
  ASEP National Officials Registry on the ASEP
  website.
• Students can print a certificate of course
  completion from the website and e-mail their
  course transcript to you to document course
  completion.

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Accessing Course from NIRSA Website

• The course also can be accessed from the NIRSA
  website.
• A link on that site goes directly to a NIRSA
  portal page on the ASEP site.
• From that page, simply click on either Take
  Course to begin the course or Continue Course
  if already registered.

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A New Tool for Training Officials

• The NIRSA Officiating Flag Football online course
  a new way you can train student officials
  quickly and easily.