In accordance with the Montana Board of Realty Regulation, students must attend 90 percent (6 minutes) of the first hour and 100 percent of each additional hour of the approved course time to receive credit. Students arriving more than 6 minutes late may still attend the course but will not receive CE credit and there will be absolutely no exceptions to this BBER regulation.

Attendance will be recorded by sign-in and sign-out procedures for in-person attendance or via a combination of Zoom attendance time records and comprehension examination for virtual students.

Students unable to stay for the entire duration of the course are responsible for notifying the course monitor or Education Director to ensure that their attendance is marked incomplete. Students who sign into a course and fail to adhere to the attendance standards will not receive CE. If it is discovered that a student has signed in for all hours but did not actually attend, they could be suspended from attending any other courses for sixty (60) days.

If it is discovered that a student has signed in for all hours, but did not actually attend, they could be suspended from attending any other courses for sixty (60) days.

Along with meeting the attendance requirements, virtual students of hybrid and virtual courses must pass a competency exam with at least a 75% score with the following parameters:

• Students will have two attempts to pass the exam.
• Exam is not timed, providing students with as much time as necessary.
• Exam will be open book, meaning access to the course slides, handouts, and other materials.
• Exam consists of one question for every 15 minutes of content.
• 1-hour course - 4 questions
• 2-hour course - 8 questions
• 3-hour course - 12 questions
• 4-hour course - 16 questions
• Exam questions will consist of multiple choice or true or false questions.

The Southwest Montana REALTORS® is committed to providing a productive and welcoming environment that is free from discrimination, harassment and bullying. Members are expected to act with courtesy and mutual respect toward each other, Association staff, service providers, speakers and event participants.

Harassment in any form is strictly prohibited. Harassment includes inappropriate conduct, comment, display, action, or gesture based on another person’s race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other protected characteristic.

Examples of harassment include, but are not limited to: epithets, slurs or negative stereotyping; threatening, intimidating or hostile acts; denigrating jokes; and the display or circulation of written or graphic material that denigrates or shows hostility toward an individual or group based on a protected characteristic.

Prohibited harassment may take various forms and can also include, without limitation, the following examples even if not necessarily protected by applicable law:



• Verbal conduct, such as epithets, derogatory comments, slurs, or jokes, or unwanted sexual advances, solicitations, or comments.
• Visual conduct, such as derogatory or sexually oriented posters, cartoons, drawings, or gestures.
• Physical conduct, such as assault, impeding, or blocking movement, strikes, shoves, kicks, or other similar physical contact, or threats to do the same.
• Using technology or computers, including websites, email or social media, to cyberbully or to transmit, communicate or receive derogatory, inappropriate pornographic, sexually suggestive, or explicit pictures, cartoons, messages, jokes, or material.
• Threats and demands including threatening or obscene language.
• Requests for sexual favors, such as unwanted sexual advances, which condition a benefit upon an exchange of sexual favors.
• Violence or threats of violence.
• Other conduct the purpose or effect of which is to demean, intimidate, or create a hostile work environment, including association related work by SMR members.