03/07/24 – Baseball Online Rules Clinic Now Available for Coaches & Umpires

March 7, 2024 Athletic Department Blog Updates

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The mandatory online KHSAA Rules Clinic for the sport of Baseball is now available. The clinic is required of all officials as well as all coaches (varsity, junior varsity, and freshmen) regardless of whether or not the coach receives pay.

OFFICIALS

TO TAKE THE CLINIC, LOG IN TO YOUR ARBITERSPORTS.COM ACCOUNT

Go to https://officials.khsaa.org

Login using your arbiter name and password

OFFICIALS INSTRUCTIONS FOR CLINICS

• As they are a condition of postseason eligibility, in the top black bar on the main page for https://officials.khsaa.org, select ELIGIBILITY
• Select that you want the 2023-24 Baseball Postseason Eligibility by clicking on 23-24 Postseason
• You will see a Blue Hyperlink that says Take Online Clinic
• Go through the clinic following the instructions including any require
• Please note it may be as much as 24 hours before your score is posted

DEADLINE FOR OFFICIALS

• March 7 to April 4 (Officials) – the Baseball Clinic will be online only and may be viewed at no charge during this period.
• April 5 to April 19 (Officials) – the Baseball Clinic will be online only and may be viewed for the makeup fee ($30) during this period.
• April 20 to May 4 (Officials) – the Baseball Clinic will be online only and may be viewed for the makeup fee ($60) during this period. After this time, postseason penalties per Bylaw 27 will apply.

LOGIN ISSUES

• If you are an official and have trouble logging into Arbiter, contact Arbiter (800) 311-4060 or support@arbitersports.com.
• The KHSAA cannot assist with login issues for already licensed officials.

FOR PART 2 TEST WHEN AVAILABLE (OR PART 1 FOR PRACTICE)

• In the top black bar menu, select TESTING
• Open Tests will have a large blue Take Test Button on the right-hand side
• Ensure that you select the right test, as a licensed official, you will have access to a multitude of tests.
• Follow the instructions and submit your test
• Please note it may be as much as 24 hours before your score is posted

THOSE SERVING AS BOTH COACH AND OFFICIAL IN THE SAME SPORT

Several of you may serve as officials and coaches. In that case, you may want credit for completing the clinic as both an official and a coach.

If that is the case, complete the clinic under arbitersports.com using the instructions for the officials, then contact our office at officialsinfo@khsaa.org and request that the clinic be also applied to your work as a coach.

ONCE YOU ARE FINISHED

Once you have finished, typeofficials.khsaa.org in your browser and hit enter
You can then click “Switch Views” in the top-line menu to go to your local association page.

 

COACHES

For member schools, the clinics are located on the School Log-in Page. To access the clinic, go to https://schools.khsaa.org/ and — under the section entitled Rules Clinics — click on the link that says “View Online Rules Clinics“.

• March 7 to April 11 (Coaches) – the Baseball Clinic will be online only and may be viewed at no charge during this period.
• April 12 to April 26 (Coaches) – the Baseball Clinic will be online only and may be viewed for the makeup fee ($100) during this period.
• April 27 to May 11 (Coaches) – the Baseball Clinic will be online only and may be viewed for the makeup fee ($200) during this period. After this time, postseason penalties per Bylaw 27 will apply.

Those coaches who attended were on the roster and in the system as coaches and signed in for the in-person presentation at the Kentucky Baseball Coaches Association Convention in January, credit has been posted accordingly.

The presentation can be viewed on most PC or Mac desktops and laptops, along with many HTML5 enabled mobile devices and tablets (to view system requirements click on the Resources tab from within the clinic once the clinic has started).

You do not have to start and finish the module in one session. You can exit the module at any time by clicking on the “Exit Module” link on the screen, or by simply closing the browser tab. When you return to the clinic, you will be asked if you want to resume or not.

NOTE: Even though you don’t have to watch in one sitting, you cannot simply leave the module running with a slide displayed when you are away for an extended period as you run the risk of not receiving credit.

There is no certificate for online rules clinics. For coaches, your athletic director will have full visibility of whether or not you have started and finished a module.

The slides must be advanced one at a time, manually using the player controls. At any time you can go back to review slides you have already viewed, but you can never skip slides you have not viewed.

You will be presented with a few questions throughout that must be answered before you can proceed.

Each person who views the clinic must be logged into their account to get credit. If taken using anyone else’s e-mail address other than your own (including your administrator’s), you will have to re-take the clinic.

If you are a coach and have trouble logging into the system, contact the KHSAA office. If you are an official and have trouble logging into Arbiter, contact Arbiter (800-311-4060 or support@arbitersports.com.

– KHSAA –

About the Kentucky High School Athletic Association
The Kentucky High School Athletic Association was organized in 1917 and is the agency designated by the Kentucky Department of Education to manage high school athletics in the Commonwealth. The Association is a voluntary nonprofit 501(c)3 organization made up of 290 member schools, both public and non-public. The KHSAA awards 229 state championships to 59 teams and 178 individuals in 13 sports and six sport-activities, funds catastrophic insurance coverage for its more than 109,000 rostered member school student-athletes, provides coaching education and sports safety programs for more than 12,000 coaches and licenses and facilitates the distribution of training material for over 4,000 contest officials.

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