Resource type
Technical Assistance & Guidance
The USDA child nutrition programs’ Professional Standards Training Tracker Tool (PSTTT) is designed to assist school nutrition professionals in keeping track of their annually required training hours. The PSTTT is a voluntary and free web-based tool which provides easy navigation and user-friendly timesaving features including:
- Creating a user profile and editing to update job title, user role, and organization (i.e., state, district, or school).
- Auto-populating school or state agency information.
- Adding, editing, and deleting training records and uploading supporting documents.
- Auto-populating training information into training records.
- Printing a certificate of completion.
- Auto-sending bi-annual reminder notification to complete annual training requirements.
- Earning training reward badges for completed training.
- Accessing step-by-step training videos on the ‘Help’ tab.
- Viewing and printing summary reports, including those employees with no logged trainings.
- Logging certifications with an expiration date and automatic reminder emails.
Additional manager/director controls allow for:
- Adding, editing, and deactivating employee profiles.
- Uploading multiple employees’ information to easily create user profiles at one time.
- Including employee ID numbers in employee profiles (optional).
- Adding, editing, and deleting training records and uploading supporting documents for multiple employees at the same time.
- Uploading multiple new training titles and training information at one time to be included on the PSTTT training list.
- Maintaining training records and uploading supporting documents for each employee.
- Uploading multiple training records for all employees at one time.
- Uploading past employee training records at one time to be included on employees' training history.
- Filtering employee training records by schools.
- Printing certificate of completion for all employees.
- Adding new schools and editing school information in their district.
School Director users have extra features that allow for:
- Adding a new district and editing district information in the PSTTT database.
- Requesting enhanced access if responsible for managing multiple districts.
- Requests should be sent to cnpntab@usda.gov.
Additional state agency users controls allow for:
- Viewing and printing summary reports for all schools in their state.
- Filtering school director, manager, and employee training records by districts and schools in their state.