How does virtual online learning work?
virtual learning online
Our courses are a fusion of virtual and live online instruction:
- online modules - these are completed online and self paced
- zoom class/exam - live teaching and exam proctoring through zoom
- onsite instruction - in-person instruction designed for the facility
Your virtual online course includes:
- self paced instruction with online modules & quizzes,
- CPO handbook,
- class time with your instructor,
- certification for completing the virtual online modules, and
- final exam for certification.
Virtual online course is self paced in that you can complete a module at different times inline with your schedule and learning style.
Virtual Class is offered through Zoom conference calling. Class hours provide further instruction and time with your instructor.
Onsite Class is offered in person for an aquatic facility
Exams for certification are offered onsite and virtually proctored zoom
STEP 1 Register Online click the REGISTER button, fill out a short form and then receive your NEXT STEP email and invoice for your course.
Your Instructor is Rusty Fausnaugh
CPO Virtual Class Hours
For students enrolled to receive their CPO certification for the first time, Class Hours are mandatory. Class Hours will provide further instruction and an opportunity for Q&A covering all modules. These are scheduled on Wednesdays @9am-1pm MST.
Future dates - 12/7/22, 1/11/23, 1/25/23 This is a Zoom class and requires a computer with a camera and microphone
CPO Exams
For students enrolled in the CPO course, these are the upcoming dates for the final exam and certification. The 8 virtual online modules must be completed before the Final Exam. These are scheduled on Wednesdays @2-4pm MST.
Future dates - 12/7/22, 1/11/23, 1/25/23
You will receive an Email with the link to take your final exam.
Rusty
Rusty Fausnaugh is a swimmer.
Aquatics has been his life since taking American red cross swimming courses as a youth. Most valuable swimmer on his high school swim team and being awarded a scholarship to swim in College, he chose instead to attend a school closer to home and began operating pools and teaching swim lessons at the end of that adventure.
In the early 90’s, after working for municipalities to teach and operate their pools in Colorado and New York, he got an opportunity to work on construction and help people operate their pools as he had in the 80’s.
All around the southwest United States, he has demolished, constructed, started up and provided training on every type of facility and every type of swimming pool component.
Teaching swimming, lifeguarding and water safety is one skill, but becoming a CPO instructor for the National Swimming Pool Foundation in the late 90’s opened up a whole new dimension for his pool service, supply and construction business. He and his partner operated this business, employing dozens of people over the years.
A regular attendee of the World Aquatic Health Conference and avid seeker of training opportunities from all manufacturers of pool equipment, he has consulted, installed, and tested most of the products available to operators for safe operation of their facilities. He continues to find new ways to live in aquatics and find new and different ways to incorporate water in his life.