UNIVERSITY RESEARCH COMPLIANCE
Biosafety Office
Getting Started with CITI
Biosafety and Biosecurity Tutorial Instructions
Oklahoma State University subscribes to the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) as a component of our training program. The online trainings listed under Biosafety and Biosecurity include instructional material, case studies, suggested readings, and a short quiz. You must earn a cumulative score of 80% to pass/complete the course. Quiz results are recorded and provided to you and to the OSU Office of University Research Compliance. If you have never created an account through CITI, please follow the instructions below to register as a new user. Go to the CITI website https://www.citiprogram.org/.
If you are an OSU employee or student and have an O-Key email account:
- Go to Log in through my institution and click on Log in via SSO (Single Sign On).
- Go down the list of institutions and click on Oklahoma State University. (Do not select Oklahoma
State University Center for Health Sciences.) - Enter your OSU email address ending with @okstate.edu and your O-Key password.
- Click on Login or hit the enter key. A dialogue box will open. Click on the Continue button.
- Choose the option: I don’t have a CITI Program account and I need to create one.
- Click on the hyperlink Click here to create a new CITI Program account.
- You will be returned to the CITI Main Menu for Oklahoma State University Courses.
If you are NOT an OSU employee or student and do not have an O-Key email account:
- Go to Create an Account and click on Register.
- Type Oklahoma State University in the text box under Select Your Organization Affiliation. (Do not
select Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences.) Click on Continue to Step 2. - Complete Steps 2-6 as directed and continue to Step 7.
If you already have an account with CITI from another institution:
- Log in to your CITI account using your existing login information from the other institution.
- On the Main Menu select Click here to affiliate with another institution.
- Click on Oklahoma State University.
Everyone will follow the next steps:
- Click on Add a Course or Update Learner Groups. If you do not see this option, click on Oklahoma
State University Courses and then click on Add a Course or Update Learner Groups. - For Questions 1 – 14, select not at this time, N/A, no, or leave blank.
- For Question 15, select "OSU Biosafety Training" or any of the other Biosafety and Biosecurity
trainings you deem necessary. - Click on Submit.
- You will be returned to a webpage that will contain the course(s) you have chosen.
- Complete the Integrity Assurance Statement, which you access via a hyperlink.
To take a course, click on the course name, which is a hyperlink. You do not have to complete all of a particular course in one sitting. You can exit the website and return another time to complete unfinished courses. Once a course is completed, print the completion report and keep a copy for your records. CITI will automatically notify the OSU Office of University Research Compliance of your completion results (pass/fail).
If you have questions about this training or need additional information on how to register with CITI, please contact the Office of University Research Compliance at 405-744-3203.