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- Use Internet Browser to Access:
- https://secqa1.isbe.net/ecs/
- Click on “Create
- New Account” button
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- Enter SSN#
- Enter SSN# again to verify
- Enter Last Name
- Click the “Next” Button
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- Enter Email Address
- Enter Email Address again to verify
- Click the “Next” Button
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- The next steps ask you to verify personal and address information on
file at ISBE; or to enter the information if it is not on file
- Click the “Next” Button
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- Enter a User Id
(1 to 80 Characters)
- Enter the User Id again to confirm
- Click the “Next” Button
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- Enter a Password
(6 to 40 characters)
- Enter the Password again to confirm
- Click the “Next” Button
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- Select a Secret Question Reminder from the picklist
- Enter the Answer
- Click the “Next” Button
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- If the column labeled Entitlement Complete is “Yes”…then you can Apply
Online by clicking the “Apply Online”
- If the column labeled Entitlement Complete is “No”…then you have to wait
and apply later when SIUE has completed your entitlement recommendation
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- Click on the “Yes” selection to confirm your identity
- Click on the “Next” Button
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- Click on the “Yes” selection to confirm address
if it is correct; or “No” if you need to correct it
- Click on the “Next” Button
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- Click on the “Yes” selection to confirm citizenship*
- Click on the “Next” Button if a U.S. citizen
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- Steps 3-8 are Background Questions; answer each question truthfully by
selecting the option
- Click on the “Next” Button
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- If you have been recommended for a Type 10 Special teaching certificate
you have the choice to split the certificate and receive a Type 03
Elementary and a Type 09 Secondary certificate
- Make your choice – we recommend that you do NOT split
- Click on the Submit Button
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- The certificate application fee is $30.00 plus $1.75 convenience fee
- Accepts Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express
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- Enter credit card information – must match credit card billing
information
- Click on the “Next” Button
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- Review Information
- Click on the “Yes” selection to approve and electronically sign the
application
- Click the “Submit” Button
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- Be patient while credit card information is being verified and
processed….
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- Print this page
- If certificate is issued it will be mailed to you in about one week
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- Follow the instructions on forwarding an official transcript to
ISBE
- Click on Register My Certificates link
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- Access Office of the Registrar website
- www.siue.edu/registrar/forms/transcriptrequest.shtml
- Select – Send transcript when degree is posted if receiving Bachelors or
Masters degree
- Select – Send transcript after this term’s grades are posted if
Certification ONLY
- Mail to: Illinois State Board of
Education
- Teacher Certification Department
- Attn: Pam Kellus
- 100 North First Street
- Springfield, IL 62777
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- If Certificate is not issued because of testing deficiencies you will be
sent a deficiency letter and your certificate will automatically be
issued when you take and pass the appropriate test
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- The registration fee for an initial teaching certificate is $20.00 plus
$1.75 convenience fee
- Enter your Credit Card Information and click on the “Submit” Button
- Follow the steps to complete the registration
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- Forms available in OCECA.
- DESE (Department of Elementary and Secondary Education) website:
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- Contact OCECA if you are interested in pursuing a graduate program in
the School of Education.
- www.siue.edu/EDUCATION
- Many programs out in the community.
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- Use #2 pencil.
- Do NOT include SSN or SIUE ID.
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- We wish you the best of luck in your new career path!
- -- The OCECA staff
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