Can You Earn Your Structural Pest Control CEUs Online?

Online CEUs fit between service stops - as long as the course is actually approved

Pest control does not pause for a training day. Routes run year-round, and the technicians and applicators who need hours the most are exactly the people who cannot spend a Tuesday in a conference room. The good news: Texas approves online continuing education for structural licensees, and it counts the same as classroom credit when the course is properly approved. Here is how to use it well.

Yes, Online CEUs Count

TDA approves structural CEU courses in multiple formats, including online self-paced training. An approved online course carries a TDA course number just like a live seminar, and you can verify any course in the TDA CEU course search before paying. If a course is not in the search, its certificate will not save you at renewal time — check first.

For Technicians, Online Hours Are the Easy Proof

The technician requirement is 8 hours of verifiable training per calendar year, and the operative word is verifiable. In-house training can count, but it lives and dies on documentation. An approved online class produces a certificate with your name, the course number, and the date — the kind of proof that survives an audit without anyone digging through a training binder.

For Certified Applicators, Watch the Credit Types

Online or not, your credits still have to land in the right buckets: 1 CEU per certified category plus 2 general CEUs, with at least one general credit in laws, pesticide safety, environmental protection, or IPM. When you shop online CE, confirm the class is approved for the specific credit you need — a category credit does not cover the general requirement, and vice versa.

Mind the Calendar Year

Online convenience creates one trap: procrastination. Structural credits count by calendar year, earned the year before you renew. The applicator who plans to "knock it out over the holidays" is one busy December from a compliance gap. Online courses remove every excuse to wait — use that.

What to Check Before You Pay

• The course appears in the TDA CEU course search with a course number.
• The credit is the right type — the category you are certified in, or a qualifying general topic.
• The completion date will fall inside the current calendar year.
• You receive a certificate per course for your records.

If anything about your situation is unusual — a lapsed license, a mid-year category addition — confirm the details with the TDA Structural Pest Control Service before relying on any plan, online or otherwise.

What Our Classes Look Like

Our structural series is built for exactly this workflow: eight standalone 1-CEU classes, each ten narrated video lessons of about five minutes with a short quiz at 70%. Four general classes (laws, safety, environmental protection, IPM — all qualifying topics), three category classes (general pest, termite/WDI, lawn and ornamental), and a bed bug deep dive. Every class is approved by TDA as its own course. Three 3-CEU category bundles are on sale now — General Pest Control, Termite & WDO, and Lawn & Ornamental — and the Full Technician Annual carries all eight, bed bug included, for 8 CEUs at $99.99.