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Professional Development (PD) Hours 

PD Hours is a feature that lets attendees earn and track professional development credit for eligible sessions during an event. PD Hours are available upon request. To use this feature, please contact the Sales Team at hello@sched.com

How to Set Up the PD Hours

Step 1: Enable PD Hours

In your Control Panel, open the Professional Development tab and click Set Up PD Hours.

Step 2: Choose a PD Tracking Method

Choose one of the following options: 

  • Signed-Up Sessions
    Use this option if you want all sessions in your event to be eligible for PD credit. Attendees automatically receive credit when they enroll in a session. If you choose this option, the credit hours will be based on the actual session duration set for each session.

    Tip:     To avoid confusion, let attendees know in your welcome message that all sessions are eligible for PD credit.
  • Verified Attendance Check-In
    Use this option if you want to manually choose which sessions are eligible for PD or CE credit. Attendees earn credit only after their attendance is verified through check-in.

    With this option, the credit hours shown in the PD tab are based on the hours you assign to each PD-enabled session.

    This option is useful if you want to confirm that an attendee actually attended a session before awarding credit. If an attendee does not check in, no PD hours will be awarded, even if they added the session to their schedule.

    Eligible sessions are identified in the session listing by the diploma icon, credit duration, and PD label.

    Tip: To help attendees avoid confusion, consider adding a note to your welcome message explaining that only selected sessions are eligible for PD credit. You can also create a session type or label, such as PD Credit, Professional Development, or CE Credit, to make eligible sessions easier to find. 

    Attendance can be verified using Sched’s supported attendance management methods, including:

Final Step: After Selecting a PD Setup

  • If you chose Signed-Up Sessions (No additional setup is required. All sessions in the event will automatically be eligible for PD credit)
  • If you chose Verified Attendance Check-In (Additional setup is required. You must enable Eligible for PD / CE Credit for each session individually)

       To do this:

  1. Go to the Schedule tab. Choose a session.
  2. Click Edit.
  3. Turn on Eligible for PD / CE Credit.
  4. Enter the number of credit hours.
  5. Click Save.

Running PD Calculations

When you click Run Calculation, Sched generates PD credit data based on the tracking method selected for your event.

  • If your event uses Signed-Up Sessions, the calculation is based on the sessions attendees added to their personal schedule, and the report will show the corresponding credit hours for those sessions.
  • If your event uses Verified Attendance Check-In, the calculation is based on attendees who were checked in to PD-enabled sessions. If an attendee added a PD-enabled session to their schedule but was not checked in, their data may still appear in the calculation, but their credit hours will show as 0 because this method requires verified attendance.

By default, calculations are scheduled to run automatically after the last session on the final day of the event ends, but you can also run them earlier when needed.

Note: PD credit may not appear immediately after an attendee adds or checks in to an eligible session. To update the current PD credit data, event planners must click Run Calculation or Re-calculate in the PD Hours tab.

Important Notes:

  • When a PD calculation is run, the results are saved at that point in time. If session hours or attendance details change later, you will need to run Re-calculate to update the results.
  • Resetting data does not remove sessions from an attendee’s schedule. It only clears the PD credit data shown in the PD tab and on the attendee side.
  • Resetting data clears the current report, resets the PD setup, and returns the PD feature to its starting state.

  • If you want to use PD Hours again after resetting, select your preferred tracking method again before generating a new report. If you choose Signed-Up Sessions, no additional setup is required. If you choose Verified Attendance Check-In, you must also re-enable Eligible for PD / CE Credit for each session you want included.

Need to Help Attendees View Their Credits?

You can share this guide with them: How to Check Your PD Credits in Your Profile

Reporting

You can download the PD Hours report from the Reports tab by clicking Professional Development.