Appraiser Continuing Education Resources

Reporting continuing education credits

Registered appraisers must participate in a continuing education (CE) program that increases technical competency including but not limited to the following areas.

• Basic and advanced mass appraisal
• Residential, rural, special assessment, commercial or light-industrial appraisal
• Property tax exemptions
• Personal property appraisal
• Ratio analysis
• Computer applications
• Farm or forest uses
  
• Property specific appraisal
  

Management credit will be awarded in the areas of personnel relations (hiring, discipline, dismissal), office management, and management of appraisal programs.

Continuing education cycles are tracked in Workday. For courses taken inside Workday, these will be automatically added to your continuing education cycle. For courses taken outside Workday, these will need to be reported as “Self Reported Training." 

CE Credit Requirements - Appraisers 

First two-calendar year cycle:

• 60 hours of technical credit
  

Every cycle thereafter:

• 30 hours of technical credit
  

CE Credit Requirements - Assessors and Appraisal Managers

First two-calendar year cycle:

• 60 hours as follows: 20 hours technical/20 hours management/20 hours combination technical and management.

Every cycle thereafter:

• 45 hours as follows: 15 hours technical/15 hours management/15 hours combination technical and management.

If you are promoted, elected, or appointed to an appraisal management or assessor position, your continuing education cycle will change. A new cycle will start on the date of the promotion/election/appointment and continue through the next two calendar years. Any previous credits you acquired will not transfer. If an appraiser's registration is revoked, they will be required to re-take the appraiser examination and accumulate 60 hours of continuing education technical credit within their first two-calendar year cycle. The Department does not track credit for individuals that have no statutory continuing education requirement.

Credits must be reported through Workday. If you need assistance with your Workday account, please contact continuing.education@dor.oregon.gov.

CE Credit Waivers

Waivers from continuing educations credits may be granted under the following circumstances.

• Military Service that prevents the completion of technical credit requirement
• Disability or illness that prevents the completion of technical credit requirement
• Accident or other uncontrollable events that prevent the completion of technical credits
• Limited duration assignments within the Department of Revenue (DOR) but outside of the Property Tax Division for Department of Revenue appraisers.
  

Anyone requesting a waiver of continuing education credits based on any of the circumstances above must submit a request for waiver of training credit to continuing.education@dor.oregon.gov no later than January 31 of the year after their cycle ended. The request for waiver must be filed by the registered appraiser holding the registration and signed by the county assessor if the appraiser is employed by a county. Example: Your continuing education cycle ended on December 31, 2025. You must file your request no later than January 31, 2026.

Documentation and Calculating Credit 

Credit for qualifying courses will be calculated at a one-to-one ratio based on the estimated amount of actual instruction time. Thus, a two-hour course would receive two hours of continuing education credit. Partial hours will only be awarded for quarter-hour increments. Credit will only be given one time for the same course if it is taken more than once during the two-year cycle. Awarding partial credit for DOR courses (e.g. had to leave due to an emergency or other circumstance) will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

Course Content
Professional training, for the purposes of awarding continuing education credit, must contain, at a minimum, the following elements.

• The training topic must be designed to enhance competency in the areas listed above and/or related to the field of assessment and taxation.
• Defined learning objectives that increase the knowledge, skill, or ability of the audience in the areas of assessment and taxation
• Content that leads the learner through the objectives as defined in the course outline

Course Approvals

In order for the department to award any type of continuing education credit we must know who will be teaching and what the subject(s) will be. Continuing education credit will be issued for courses or webinars taught by the following vendors.

To award credit for courses or webinars taught by parties other than those listed above, the student, trainer, or vendor must submit to continuing.education@dor.oregon.gov a description of what is being taught, by whom, what knowledge and/or skills the audience will receive, and/or the training content, for review and determination of what, if any, continuing education credit will be given.

Meetings, Tech Groups, and Conferences 

If a training session is part of a meeting, tech group, or conference, a description of what is being taught, by whom, the knowledge and/or skills the audience will receive and the training content, must be submitted to the DOR Property Tax Division, Continuing Education Program. CE will not be awarded without this information, preferably in advance to avoid confusion by the participants.

Training and Teaching

A course instructor will receive technical credits equal to the number of hours awarded for presentation for the first training only. Credit will be given for development of course materials up to a maximum of 10 credits per training cycle.

DOR Courses

Priority registration will be given to students with a continuing education requirement and appraiser trainees in an official appraiser trainee program with the county in which they're employed (except Personal Property Courses and Exemption Courses, whichare first-come, first-serve). All others will be placed on a waitlist. If openings occur, those on the waitlist will be registered in the order they were waitlisted. One week prior to the course, participants will receive an email confirming their registration and course material. Students may download and print their own copies or view the material on their laptop or tablet in the course.

• You are required to register in Workday, as spaces are limited.
• Attendees are encouraged to interact with the trainer and others in the course.
• Students must have an individual computer, web camera, and microphone.
• Seating is limited. Non-registered attendees will not receive CE credit.
• Students shall not share the Zoom/Teams link. 
  

Change of Contact Information 

If a registered appraiser has a change in contact information or employment status it must be reported to DOR within 30 days of the change in order to maintain current records.