Chesterfield County School District

VirtualSC PD offers renewal courses to assist South Carolina certified educators with certificate renewal.

The SC Educator Portal is an enhanced educator certification and information system released on May 5, 2022. All certification records from the prior system remain accessible through SC Educator. With increased functionality, the new system allows educators to submit requests and upload documents directly into their certification records.
 
To access SC Educator for the first time, you must register for a new user account even if you have viewed or submitted records using a different portal previously.  

Current and prospective educators are encouraged to provide a personal email address during the registration process, rather than an email account associated with an employer, college, or university. After registering, you will log in with your email address as the username and then create a password. Once you have created the new account successfully, log in and enter the authentication code sent to your email address. Be sure to check junk and spam folders if you do not receive an email with an authentication code.
 
If you have not already, Create a user account in the new SC Department Certification Portal - SC Educator Portal. (Please email SCDE at certification@ed.sc.gov if you have any problems/questions when creating your user account.)

• Apply for certification
• make requests for certificate changes and updates
• upload supporting documents
• view and print a current certificate
• submit fee payments
• review fingerprint procedures
• update contact information
• monitor the status of requests and applications
• review certification information
• In addition, registered users will receive email notifications when updates are made to their requests and applications, and the SCDE will post correspondence directly in an educator’s user account

• About My SC Educator Portal.
• My SC EDUCATOR PORTAL

1. Send Certificate of Completion (for college credits, submit official transcript)
2. Complete and submit the appropriate Option Form along with the documentation of completion to ensure prompt processing.

As in the past, certificate renewal requests and renewal credits must be sent to our office for processing. Please scan these requests, along with documentation, to ccutchin@chesterfieldschools.org. You will NOT need to upload these requests/documents into the new certification portal (SC Educator). However, once processed, you will be able to view your renewal credits via the SC Educator certification portal.