SVSH Training for Employees FAQs

As part of a campus-wide effort to prevent and address sexual violence and sexual harassment, all UC students and employees are required to complete sexual violence and sexual harassment (SVSH) awareness and prevention education courses. Courses are assigned in accordance with state and federal law and University policy.

Certain Foundational Skills trainings are assigned on an annual basis, or in some cases every other year. If you took the course in the past, the system will indicate that you already took it. But if it’s a recurring course, you need to take it again. Please go ahead and take it if you received an email assigning it to you or telling you that you’re overdue to take it. 

If you are a supervisor, manager, faculty, in MSP or SMP, postdoctoral appointee, or faculty on recall: Please note that your training requirement alternates annually between two different courses (the 2-hour course and the 30-minute refresher) with similar names:

• UC Preventing Harassment and Discrimination: Supervisors, Faculty, MSP (SVSH)" (course code: AB1825-BE-ECO)

• Preventing and Responding to Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment (SVSH): Supervisors, Faculty, MSP Refresher course code: BE-SVSH SUPPLMENTAL-ECO).

Please check the name of the course you already completed and the name of the course for which you are receiving reminders as they could be different. 

The "Preventing and Responding to Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment (SVSH): Supervisors, Faculty, MSP Refresher" training you completed is a shortened version of the full, two-hour "UC Preventing Harassment & Discrimination: Supervisors, Faculty, MSP (SVSH)" training that employees must take every 2 years.

During the alternating calendar year when you do not have to take the full "UC Preventing Harassment & Discrimination: Supervisors, Faculty, MSP (SVSH)" course, the Refresher must be completed.  This is why you were assigned to complete the Refresher course last calendar year and you now have the full version of the course due this calendar year. 

It depends. The supervisor course covers more information than the non-supervisor course. If you took the non-supervisor training and then moved into a position that is eligible for the supervisor training, you’ll need to take the supervisor training. But if you took the supervisor training within the last 12 months, you should not be required to do the non-supervisor training. If that happens, please email learningcenter@berkeley.edu

The UC Preventing Harassment and Discrimination: Supervisors, Faculty, MSP (SVSH) and the Preventing and Responding to Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment (SVSH): Supervisors, Faculty, MSP Refresher course are assigned to supervisors *and* to those whose job titles carry sufficient responsibility that the campus wants them to do the higher-level training. You were assigned your training based on your job code.

If you’re back on recall, even without salary, you are required to do training.

If you are still listed as an employee in UC Path, you’ll continue to get training assignments. This is not uncommon for those with short-term seasonal appointments. Please contact the unit that most recently employed you to make sure they processed the end of your appointment.

If you are receiving training reminders for an employee who no longer reports to you, or whose name you do not recognize, this is likely due to outdated appointment information in UCPath, in the area of Reports To for Positions. Please contact your unit admin or HR Partner so that they can correct the appointment information in UCPath. The UC Learning Center cannot update the reporting information for people.

• Some folks are assigned so many training courses that the list goes over multiple pages; you can search for the one you’re looking for by typing part of its name into the search field.
• If your appointment changed in between receiving the latest reminder and when you checked the Learning Center, it’s possible that you are no longer required to do that particular training.
• If neither of the above bullets describes your situation, please email learningcenter@berkeley.edu.

• It can take a day or two for your transcript in the system to refresh.

• It’s also possible you got to the end of the course but didn’t stay long enough for the audio to finish playing, or didn’t click “Finish”. Try opening the course again and checking for that. 

It’s possible you got to the end of the course but didn’t stay long enough for the audio to finish playing, or didn’t click “Finish”. Try opening the course again and checking for that. 

• If you completed an SVSH training at another institution, the answer to this is usually no. Unless you did an identical course through another UC campus, you’ll need to take the course here. 

• Sometimes courses have similar names. Student employees are assigned some courses in their role as students, and others in their role as employees. In some cases the courses have similar names and may include some related content, but they are different. All employees needed to complete their required Foundational Skills courses.

Please see the troubleshooting tips on this page. If those don’t work for you, please email learningcenter@berkeley.edu.

Please email svshadvisor@berkeley.edu for assistance. (Please note that the SVSH Advisor cannot help with technical issues, like the course not advancing, or difficulties logging in. For assistance with technical issues, please email the Learning Center at learningcenter@berkeley.edu)

Please email learningcenter@berkeley.edu to request the course in an alternate format. 

Please email ptcadvocates@berkeley.edu to request an educational alternative.