Wildlife Damage & Sign for Home Inspectors Course
Welcome to InterNACHI's free, online "Wildlife Damage & Signs for Home Inspectors" course. This course is provided by our accredited 
college at internachi.edu and developed in partnership with the National Wildlife Control Operators Association (NWCOA). 
Goal:
This course aims to teach students how to identify potential wildlife damage or signs during an inspection and to keep themselves and others with them safe. Inspectors will also receive recommendations on where to get additional wildlife training and where to refer homeowners who need a wildlife control technician.
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- identify the most common wildlife that enter structures and cause problems;
- describe ways of keeping themselves safe from zoonotic disease during an inspection; and
- describe wildlife damage or possible intrusion to clients and recommend qualified contractors to address wildlife removal and mitigation.
This course is free to all InterNACHI members and can be taken repeatedly without limit.
Course includes:
- 18.0 InterNACHI® CE credit hours;
- 10,141 words in the course;
- 10,141-word course textbook;
- inspection images;
- inspection and writing assignment;
- research and writing assignment;
- 6 reinforcement study questions in 6 quizzes;
- 20-question final exam (drawn from a larger pool);
- instant grading;
- a downloadable, printable Certificate of Completion.
You will learn the following topics:
- Inspector Safety Equipment and Inspection Tools
- Inspection Tips Related to Wildlife Intrusion
- Tree Squirrel human health concerns, identification of scat, common entry points, and common damage
- Raccoon human health concerns, identification of scat, common entry points, and common damage
- Bat human health concerns, identification of scat, common entry points, and common damage
- Bird human health concerns, identification of scat, common entry points, and common damage
- Snake human health concerns, identification of scat, common entry points, and common damage
- Skunks human health concerns, identification of scat, common entry points, and common damage
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| Student Work | Time Calculation | Estimated Clock Hour Time for the Average Student |
| Attendance for "Seat Time" 1 | # of minutes of student attendance / 50 | 18.4 |
| Participation in Learning Activities 2 | # of minutes of online student participation / 50 | 0.5 |
| Interactivity 3 | # of minutes of student interactivity / 50 | 0.5 |
| Reading the Course Text 4 | # of words in the course / 100 words per minute / 50 | 2.0 |
| Reading the Course Textbook 5 | # of words in the book / 100 words per minute / 50 / 2 | 1.0 |
| Academic Engagement 6 | # of words in the course / 100 / 50 | 0.5 |
| Direct Communication 7 | # of minutes of communication / 50 | 0.5 |
| Instructional Video Learning 8 | # of minutes of video / 50 | 0.1 |
| Reinforcement Q & A 9 | # of questions X 1.85 / 50 | 0.25 |
| Writing Assignment of the Inspection 10 | 2.0 hours per assignment | 2.0 |
| Writing Assignment of the Research 11 | 3.0 hours per assignment | 3.0 |
| Academic Activities for an Inspection 12 | 4.0 hours for each inspection assignment | 4.0 |
| Performing an Inspection 13 | 4.0 hours for each inspection | 4.0 |
| * nachi.org/catalog-credit-hour-calculation | 18.4 | |
| Total clock hours | 18.4 clock hours 18.0 InterNACHI CE Hours 1.8 CEU | |
Reminder to members: InterNACHI's Code of Ethics 1.10 requires that you comply with all government rules and licensing requirements of the jurisdiction where you conduct business. InterNACHI's courses and Standards generally exceed the Standards of Practice that you are required to abide by locally.
This course has been approved by:
- the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors;
- the Master Inspector Certification Board;
- the International Association of Certified Indoor Air Consultants;
- the Certified Commercial Property Inspectors Association; and
- many government agencies and licensing boards.
Upon completion of this course and passing of the 20-question final exam, the student can download and print their own Certificate of Completion which is auto-generated in their own name. The student's (InterNACHI member's) information is recorded on InterNACHI's servers for membership compliance verification, and automatically logs completion into InterNACHI's online Continuing Education log.
Members will need their username and password. If you have forgotten your password, CLICK HERE (instant response) or email fastreply@internachi.org and request it (don't forget your name).
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Some features which make InterNACHI's courses superior to existing continuing education options:
- The course is free for all InterNACHI members.
- The course is written in pure XHTML code for quick loading. The course loads fine on old computers and loads fast, even with dial-up.
- The course is designed using a hierarchal menu coupled with a sequential page navigation. This provides the student with the option to easily repeat areas of weakness.
- The course permits the student to start, stop and restart any part of the course as often as desired.
- The illustrations can be enlarged for clearer viewing by clicking on them.
- The final exam uses multiple-choice questions that reference the images.
- The course's quizzes and final exam have numerous advantages over traditional exam systems:
- The course, quizzes and final exam incorporate built-in intelligence which identifies and strengthens each student's unique subject weaknesses.
- Not only is each question weighted with regard to score, but each answer is weighted, as well as the correctness of each answer being weighted.
- Answers to easy questions are weighted such that the student is penalized, in terms of score, for answering incorrectly, but rewarded modestly for answering correctly.
- Answers to difficult questions are weighted such that the student is rewarded, in terms of score, for answering correctly, but not penalized for answering incorrectly.
- Answers to questions regarding basic safety, or questions every inspector should know the answer to, are weighted such that the student is severely penalized, in terms of score, for answering incorrectly.
- Upon passing the final exam, the student can print out a Certificate of Completion which is auto-generated in their own name.
The student's (InterNACHI member's) information is recorded on InterNACHI's servers for membership compliance verification, and automatically logs completion into InterNACHI's online Continuing Education log.
Why online inspector education is better than classroom inspector education.
