60 new courses across a spectrum of topics for schools have been added to Absorb. Below are the course titles, categories and descriptions. 

Environmental and Safety

Asbestos Awareness for K12 – Full Two Hour Course
The course provides staff members with an overview of asbestos, and how to follow proper procedures needed to ensure everyone’s safety. Topics include: asbestos regulations and schools, origins of asbestos, uses of asbestos, health risks, asbestos abatement and the role of staff. This is a 2 hour version of asbestos awareness designed to meet the AHERA requirements.

Electrical Safety General Awareness
Spark discussion with your team on effective ways to recognize, evaluate, and avoid electrical hazards. Topics covered include personal protective equipment related to electrical safety, OSHA requirements for working on equipment, and electrical injuries such as shocks, burns, electrocutions, and falls. This course is 16 minutes

Ergonomics For Office Environments
Cumulative Trauma Disorders (CTDs) are a type of musculoskeletal disorder that affects the nerves, tendons, muscles, and supporting structures of the body. They’re often caused by repetitive motions, awkward postures, holding static positions for extended periods of time and contact stress while working. This course reviews techniques to improve posture, describes stretching exercises to reduce the chance of injury, and provides instruction on proper workspace arrangement including your chair, table, and computer terminal. It also discusses how to use ergonomic best practices if you’re working at home or on the go. This course is 29 minutes.

Fire Prevention Planning for Schools
This course discusses fire prevention planning, covering OSHA/NFPA compliance, hazard identification, emergency action plans (EAPs), evacuation procedures (like Stop, Drop, & Roll), and maintaining fire safety equipment (alarms, sprinklers, extinguishers), helping districts create robust, documented safety programs for staff and students to mitigate risks and ensure readiness. This course is 30 minutes.

Lead-Based Paint Safety
This course covers basic guidelines and best practices for working safely around lead-based paint. Even though U.S. legislation passed in 1978 has dramatically limited the allowable lead levels in paint, lead-based paint is still present in many residential and commercial buildings. Based on OSHA standards set forth in 29-CFR 1910.1025 related to lead exposure in the workplace, this course is designed to help workers recognize and avoid the hazards associated with lead-based paint. This course is 30 minutes.

Maintaining Forklift Safety
Contains basic forklift operating procedures intended to increase safety and help prevent the most common forklift accidents. NOTE: This course provides staff members with an overview of important safety procedures to be used when operating any forklift. This course is not intended to replace hands-on training for the specific forklift that you will be using at your job. You must receive hands-on training on the safe use of the specific type and model of forklift from a qualified trainer. Provides information on the most common types of forklifts used in general industry and warehouse environments. Includes important information required by OSHA’s general industry standards (29 CFR 1910.178) as well as best practices on operating powered industrial trucks. This course is 53 minutes.

Maintenance Safety
Industrial facilities rely heavily on complex equipment. To run efficiently and effectively, the equipment needs regular maintenance. However, performing maintenance can introduce many safety hazards. This course addresses best practices for safely maintaining and repairing equipment. This course is 28 minutes.

Occupational Safety Training Introduction to OSHA
Many of the health and safety programs and procedures in this Health and Safety Guide are derived from federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations. This course provides you with some background information about OSHA and OSHA standards, inspections, citations, and penalties. At the end of this course, you will be able to distinguish between the role of OSHA and the role of the office of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS). Learn more about the role of OSHA in establishing a safe and secure work environment. This course is 25 minutes.

Safety and Health – Advanced
This course covers more advanced guidelines and best practices for safety in a variety of industrial workplaces. With safety topics including working around mobile equipment, hazardous chemicals, and moving machine parts, this course provides advanced concepts critical to establishing safe work habits for yourself and your team. This course is 25 minutes.

Slips, Trips and Falls
This course provides employees with essential guidance on preventing workplace slip, trip, and fall incidents, one of the most common causes of injury across all industries. Learners will explore practical strategies for navigating slippery or uneven surfaces, recognizing and avoiding trip hazards, and following safety protocols designed to reduce fall risks. The course also emphasizes the importance of maintaining a clean and organized work environment, wearing appropriate footwear, and adhering to organizational safety policies. This course is 17 minutes

Severe Storms: Wind, Water, and Hail Intrusion
In recent years, the United States has experienced a surge in severe weather, including thunderstorms, extreme winter storms, and torrential rain. Water, wind, and hail have emerged as the main culprits behind the substantial losses incurred during such events. In this course you will learn how to prepare for and lessen the impact of severe storms, such as wind, water, and hail intrusion. This course will also present an explanation on filing post-storm insurance claims. ​This course is 18 minutes.

Storage and Handling of Corrosives
Corrosives are substances that damage or destroy other substances on contact. Most are strong acids, strong bases, or concentrated solutions of weak acids or weak bases. To safely store and handle corrosives, read the container labels and safety data sheets, and follow the requirements and precautions they contain. Also follow the storage and handling best practices for hazardous chemicals and corrosives for your workplace and listed in this course, and keep an accurate inventory at all times. This course is 30 minutes.

Trenching and Excavation Safety
This course covers safe work practices for excavation and trenching work. It is meant to be used as an introductory or refresher course for construction workers involved in digging or working in an excavation. It is based on OSHA Construction regulations and industry best practices. This course is 30 minutes.

Category: Health

Bloodborne Pathogens Exposure Prevention (new and updated)
Working in any environment with a high concentration of people can increase the risk of exposure to germs and infectious agents on a daily basis. Specifically, bodily fluids can put you in danger of infection. Bloodborne pathogens are infectious microorganisms in human blood that can cause disease. This course is OSHA-aligned and designed to provide teachers and school staff with an overview of the dangers posed by bloodborne pathogens, safety procedures for handling bloodborne pathogens, and information about protecting staff and students from infection. Topics covered include understanding risks associated with bloodborne pathogens in schools, OSHA-compliant safety training guidelines, universal precautions, personal protective equipment, and safe cleanup and disposal practices.
Microlearning Course
This course is designed for all staff members. (2 minutes)
Teachers and Administration
This version is designed for teachers and administration to prevent BBP exposure. (21 minutes)
Custodians
This version is designed for school custodial staff. (25 minutes)
Full Course
This course is for all school staff. (22 minutes)
Spanish Version
The full course available in Spanish (22 minutes)
Refresher
This course is for all school staff. (17 minutes)
Support Staff
This version is designed for school support staff that are not custodians. (22 minutes)

Category: Human Resources

ADA Compliance in Business
ADA compliance for businesses means providing equal access to goods, services, and employment for people with disabilities, requiring physical accessibility (ramps, clear paths), effective communication (interpreters, alt text), reasonable policy modifications (service animals), and digital accessibility (websites), with specific requirements depending on business size, focusing on making things "readily achievable" to remove barriers and prevent discrimination in areas like recruitment, promotion, and workplace environment. This course is 30 minutes.

Bystander Intervention of Alcohol and Substance Misuse
This course and follow-up survey discusses intervention techniques for bystanders regarding drug and alcohol abuse. This course is 30 minutes.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Courses
This series of courses replaced the prior Diversity, Equity and Inclusion course. The goal of is to provide staff with an awareness of how a diverse workforce strengthens an organization. The courses below examine behaviors, both unintentional and intentional, that can discriminate or contribute to a hostile work environment, and discusses ways to respond or even intervene in discriminatory acts that are in concert with your organization's policies and showcase positive reinforcing behaviors that show respect and appreciation for staff who are different than you. They range in time from 16 minutes to 30 minutes.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Practices Staff-to-staff
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Practices Staff-to-Student
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Awareness for Employees
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Awareness for Employees (Petro Rabigh course)
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Awareness for Managers
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Skills for Employees
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Skills for Managers

Faith-Centered Harassment, Discrimination and  Prevention Under Title IX
This course aims to create respectful campus cultures, address sex-based discrimination, and ensure all members understand their rights and responsibilities, even with religious exemptions or specific faith-based policies, by customizing content to align with institutional values. There is an Employee and Supervisor version of this course. This course is 30 minutes.

Federal Acquisition Regulation Overview
This course for Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) was created to address ethical conduct in the development of government contracts. The course details how government employees, contractors and subcontractors should conduct themselves when working on projects that involve millions of dollars and hundreds, if not thousands, of jobs. Instituted by the Federal Acquisition Regulation System in December 2007, the Contractor Code of Business Ethics and Conduct gives extra protection to U.S. taxpayer dollars by requiring that contractors publish and adhere to a written code of ethics. This course explores the intricacies of the code, and explains the professional and ethical manner in which everyone involved in carrying out government contracts should conduct themselves when they do business. This course is 1 hour.

Handling Difficult Conversations
Handling difficult conversations effectively requires preparation, emotional management, and empathy to foster productive outcomes. Key strategies include planning your points, active listening, using "I" statements, and focusing on specific, objective behaviors rather than personal attacks. The goal is to move from conflict to collaboration, ensuring both parties feel heard while addressing the underlying issue. This course is 22 minutes.

Sexual Assault Prevention Ongoing: Athletes
We all want to feel safe and respected in our communities. Our athletic programs shouldn’t be any different. Misconduct of any kind can affect a person’s well-being, athletic performance, and academic goals, as well as team dynamics. This behavior includes intimate partner violence, sexual harassment, stalking and sexual assault, as well as hazing and bullying. This course is designed to discuss the effects of misconduct, including sexual assault throughout athletic programs. This course is 37 minutes.

Supporting Employee Wellbeing for Supervisors
Mental health awareness at work is the recognition and understanding of the impact of mental health issues on your staff and the school. This course will examine historical and social factors contributing to mental health challenges, the impact of mental health issues on school district employees, and how to establish policies and adjustments supporting employee well-being. This course is 38 minutes.

Understanding Alcohol and Other Drugs
This course explores the nature and consequences of alcohol and drug misuse during the college experience. Beginning with a general introduction to alcohol and drugs, this experience discusses the effects on the body, the physiological impact of misuse, and the risks associated with overdose. Our primary objective is to equip students with the knowledge to recognize early signs of alcohol and substance misuse as well as how to overcome barriers to action using the 5D’s of intervention. By fostering awareness, we aim to empower students to take a proactive role in addressing alcohol and drug dependency within their communities. This course is 66 minutes.

Category: I.T. / Cybersecurity

Artificial Intelligence for Educators
Whether you’re high-tech, low-tech, or no-tech, you’ve certainly had some kind of interaction with artificial intelligence (AI). In this course, you’ll discover how Generative AI has evolved, explore practical applications of AI in education, and learn how to navigate AI tools responsibly and ethically. You’ll see how you can integrate AI tools into teaching practices to enhance student success and streamline workload management. This course is 44 minutes

Leveraging the Power of AI for Students
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize how we live, work, and learn. But how do we navigate this and harness AI’s power while safeguarding privacy, security, and ethical principles? This course will prepare students to embrace the opportunities AI presents while mitigating its risks. Topics include: the importance of verifying AI-generated information for accuracy and privacy concerns; ethical decision-making and responsible use principles; and opportunities and challenges of AI in educational settings. This course is 31 minutes.

Category: Social and Behavioral

Dating Violence: Identification and Prevention (Micro-Learning Course)
This course is a reprise of the full Dating Violence course and is meant as a reminder or refresher. This course is 2 minutes.

Digital Wellness: Navigating Online Relationship and Harms
With technological advancements, students utilize social media daily to form connections and express themselves. This course provides examples of how to recognize digital harm, how to have healthy boundaries for technology in relationships, how to apply strategies of bystander intervention, and how to describe long-term effects. This course is 18 minutes.

Fostering Belonging in K-12 Classrooms
Our schools are filled with students, teachers and staff with a variety of backgrounds and abilities. This course is designed as an introduction for educators to navigate cultivating the growth and learning in the next generations. This course is meant to assist educators by introducing the concept and importance of belonging, and providing tangible methods of belonging to weave into the classroom. As an educator, this course asks you to be open and willing to reflect on your own identity and educational experiences as you learn more skills to help foster belonging in the classroom and connect with your students. This course is 19 minutes.

Fostering Resilience
Fostering resilience means developing the capacity to adapt and bounce back from adversity by cultivating healthy habits, strong relationships, a positive mindset, and a sense of purpose, helping individuals (especially youth) see challenges as temporary and manageable, not insurmountable, through strategies like mindfulness, self-care, goal-setting, and supportive connections. It's about building inner resources and external support systems to navigate stress and trauma, rather than avoiding difficulties. This course is 19 minutes.

Human Trafficking Awareness (Micro-Learning Course)
Human trafficking impacts thousands of people across the U.S. As awareness grows, it’s increasingly clear staff may come into contact with victims—and may be in a position to recognize signs and offer help. This course gives faculty and staff a practical overview of human trafficking and strategies for identifying and potentially preventing it. This course is a 2-minute reprise of the full Human Trafficking Awareness course.

Making Schools Safe and Inclusive for Transgender Students (Spanish Version)
This is a Spanish-language version of the Making Schools Safe and Inclusive for Transgender Students course. This course is 19 minutes.

Mental Well-Being for Student Organizations
This course helps student organization leaders and members build a healthier, more supportive culture around mental well-being. Participants will learn what mental well-being looks like in real life, how stress and burnout show up in student groups, and how to spot early warning signs in themselves and others. The course covers practical tools for staying balanced during busy seasons, creating inclusive and psychologically safe meetings and events, and having supportive conversations—plus when and how to connect someone with campus resources. By the end, student organizations will have clear strategies to reduce stigma, strengthen peer support, and promote well-being without trying to “be the counselor.” This course is 30 minutes.

Supporting Students Experiencing Poverty
This course helps faculty, staff, and student-facing leaders better understand how financial insecurity can impact a student’s academics, health, and sense of belonging. Participants will learn to recognize common indicators of basic needs challenges (such as food or housing insecurity), communicate with empathy and respect, and respond in ways that protect dignity and privacy. The course also covers practical, campus-appropriate support strategies—how to connect students to resources, reduce barriers within policies and practices, and create learning and engagement environments that are more accessible for all students. By the end, participants will be prepared to offer meaningful support and make informed referrals when students are navigating poverty-related challenges. This course is 30 minutes.

Youth Suicide: Awareness, Prevention and Postvention
The goal of this course is to provide K-12 staff members with information that will help them reduce the likelihood of suicide among students. This course covers the scope of the problem of youth suicide, common risk factors related to youth suicide, successful strategies for youth suicide prevention, the immediate steps a staff member should take if they encounter a student who is threatening suicide, and best practices for intervention after a suicide (“postvention”). There are three version of this course below:
Full Course – 30 minutes
Jason Flatt Act (1 hour)
Jason Flatt Act (2 hours)

Category: Special-Ed

Practical Strategies for Accommodations
As schools aim to make campuses more accessible to students with disabilities, we must also consider how we can make our classrooms accessible. Proactively designing your courses to be accessible reduces the amount of work needed to support a student with a disability in your course. Sometimes, however, supportive teaching practices won’t meet all your students’ needs. In these instances, students with disabilities will need specific accommodations to use and interact with the various parts of your course. This module will help you understand the accommodation process for students and provide best practices to treat students with disabilities enrolled in your courses with respect.

Category: transportation

Preventing Intersection Collisions – Cross Traffic
Intersections are one of the most dangerous locations on any roadway. You should pay particular attention to the cross traffic as you approach the intersection. Cross traffic includes all road users that are traveling on the intersecting road and may cross or enter your path. This course will identify common contributing factors to cross traffic intersection collisions and strategies to prevent intersection collisions due to cross traffic. This course is 25 minutes.

Preventing Intersection Collisions – Rear-ends
More than 25 percent of all car crashes are rear-end collisions. A rear-end crash occurs when the front of one vehicle comes into contact with the rear of another vehicle. This course will describe contributing factors to rear-end crashes and identify strategies to prevent rear-ending or being rear-ended by another vehicle. This course is 25 minutes.

Preventing Intersection Collisions – Turning
Intersections are one of the most dangerous locations on the roadway. Research has shown that a large number of crashes every year occur in an intersection or are intersection-related. This course identifies intersection hazards and strategies to prevent crashes in intersections. This course is 25 minutes.

Preventing Loss of Control Crashes
Have you ever unexpectedly lost control of your vehicle while driving? Perhaps you lost control of your vehicle in inclement weather. Maybe it was raining hard and you applied the brakes suddenly, or you crossed a bridge that was covered with ice. Or, maybe you lost control because you had to suddenly steer to avoid hitting another vehicle or object. If so, you are not alone. These are all common factors that lead to loss of control events. This course will identify common loss of control crashes and then discuss ways to reduce loss of control and how to regain control.

Preventing Sideswipe Collisions
Have you ever noticed another vehicle drifting slowing across the lane line into your lane? Or perhaps your vehicle was the one unintentionally crossing the lane line into another lane? If so, you are not alone, this is a common sideswipe crash scenario. This course will identify potential hazards that may lead to sideswipe crashes and best practices for avoiding those hazards. This course is 25 minutes.

Travel Security
When traveling there are many safety and security concerns. The best way to minimize the risks is to plan ahead to be better prepared to deal with it, or better yet, prevent it from occurring in the first place. The goal of this course is to make you aware of some of the most common threats you may encounter while traveling, how to prevent incidents, and what to do if something does go wrong. This course is 30 minutes.