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The ABA Fieldwork Tracker user guide: short, task-based help for BCBA® and BCaBA® candidates, RBT®s, and the supervisors who sign. Every hour you log counts, and the app checks your month against BACB® requirements without ever blocking you.
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SEE IT IN THE APP
Watch the app do it, step by step
25 interactive demos play the app's own screens. Each one runs by itself; tap Back, Next or a dot to go at your own pace.
- Set up your account Fieldwork · 4 steps
- Import past fieldwork hours Fieldwork · 5 steps
- Log a fieldwork session Fieldwork · 7 steps
- Hour allotment: which box an hour goes in Fieldwork · 4 steps
- Find and edit what you logged Fieldwork · 4 steps
- Your dashboard Fieldwork · 5 steps
- Overall progress Fieldwork · 6 steps
- Reports and verification forms Fieldwork · 5 steps
- Sign a monthly or final form Fieldwork · 6 steps
- Supervisors: adding them and giving access Fieldwork · 5 steps
- Organizations: where you do fieldwork Fieldwork · 4 steps
- Import past RBT months RBT · 5 steps
- Log an RBT day RBT · 5 steps
- What the RBT monthly checks mean RBT · 4 steps
- Get your Monthly Supervision Record signed RBT · 4 steps
- Switch between RBT and Fieldwork RBT · 3 steps
- Connect with a trainee Supervisors · 4 steps
- My Trainees Supervisors · 4 steps
- Review a trainee's hours Supervisors · 4 steps
- The Activity feed Supervisors · 4 steps
- Sign a verification form or record Supervisors · 4 steps
- Verification Forms: your queue and archive Supervisors · 4 steps
- Change your email address Account · 4 steps
- What happens when you mark a ticket solved Account · 4 steps
- Community: updates from ABA FT, and reacting to a post Account · 4 steps
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Fieldwork, step by step
Logging fieldwork toward BCBA or BCaBA certification: sessions, hour allotment, your month, your forms, and the people and places behind them.
Getting started
Setup, what you track, your first hours and the months before ABA FT.
How do I set up my ABA Fieldwork Tracker account?
Setup opens the first time you sign in, and the app waits at it until you finish. It asks who you are, what you track, and the details your verification forms need, one screen at a time.
Who you are and what you track
- Choose I am a: Trainee or Supervisor.
- As a trainee, choose I'm tracking: RBT ongoing supervision, BCBA or BCaBA fieldwork, or Both.
- Tap Continue.
Invited by someone? Your role is already set, and you are connected as soon as you finish.
How your hours are checked
Fieldwork trainees answer three questions:
- When you will apply for certification: Before 2027, or 2027 or later.
- Which certification: BCBA or BCaBA.
- The fieldwork type: Supervised or Concentrated. Your program coordinator can confirm it.
The list beside the questions, What ABA FT will check, follows your answers. It shows the monthly and total requirements for that pathway. Tracking RBT only skips this screen.
You can change these later in Settings: Change what you track, your pathway or your standard.
About you
- Enter your name. A phone number is optional.
- Add your BACB ID. It prints on your verification forms, so it is recommended. You can add it later on your Profile.
- A trainee can add a school and an expected graduation. A supervisor can add a credential and specializations.
- Enter your address. Outside the United States, type your state, province or region and a postal code (Outside the United States).
- Say how you heard about us, agree to the terms, and tap Finish setup.
After setup
If something is missing, a banner says how many things to fix, and each one is marked below. Your other answers stay.
Your email is read-only here. Add more addresses in Settings once you are set up.
Finishing opens the welcome tour, and then your dashboard. Next: Log your first hours.
How do I change my pathway, standard or what I track?
Open Settings from the account card at the foot of the sidebar. The card What you're tracking reads your setup back as one sentence, with the rules it checks every month and in total, and a note that ABA FT never blocks an entry.
The four questions
- Tap Change.
- What you track: RBT supervision, Fieldwork, or Both. Choosing RBT supervision alone hides the three fieldwork questions.
- When you will apply for certification: Before 2027, or 2027 or later.
- Which certification: BCBA or BCaBA.
- The fieldwork type: Supervised or Concentrated.
- Tap Save. The page reloads and the top bar follows.
The preview beside the questions follows your choices and marks each rule that changes with Changed.
What changes
- Your months are read again against the standard you chose, so a change applies to all of them at once.
- The fieldwork type is different. It is used for new months, and each month keeps its own type, which you change on the month's own page.
- At least one tracker stays on. Turning one off moves you to the other.
How do I log my first hours?
Tap Log Hours in the top bar. It is there on every page. On an empty month, the dashboard's card offers the same button.
Fieldwork
The form opens on today's date, with the organization in view and your last supervisor already chosen.
- Type the start and end times.
- Place the session in the allotment boxes.
- Switch on a supervision contact or an observation if one happened.
- Tap Save entry.
Log a fieldwork session walks every part.
RBT supervision
The day form opens on today with one session card.
- Add a card for each stretch of your day.
- Add a supervision card for any meeting with your supervisor.
- Tap Save day.
Log an RBT day walks it.
Missing an organization or a supervisor?
The last row of either list adds one without leaving the form. The new one is chosen for you.
Hours from before you joined
The first time you open the dashboard, it offers Import Hours. The page is always in the sidebar too.
Import past fieldwork hours and Import past RBT months explain what to enter.
Can I import fieldwork hours from before I joined?
Yes. Import Hours, under Tools in the sidebar, takes fieldwork you completed before joining ABA FT, as one summary per month, per organization. Match your signed M-FVFs, the monthly verification forms, and add only hours you have not already logged here.
The form
Tap Add Month and fill in:
- The month and year.
- The organization and supervisor. A + adds a missing one.
- The fieldwork type for that month, if it differs from your default.
- The hours in each box.
- The month's supervision contacts and observations (observation time on the 2027 standard).
Save & done finishes. Save + add previous month reopens the form on the month before, with the same organization and supervisor.
Two organizations that month? Save one row, then add a second.
After the import
- Imported hours add to your overall total. An imported month never earns an achievement.
- Each imported month is checked on its totals by the same rules as a logged month. It reads Requirements met or Needs attention in the Imported Months table.
- On the dashboard it is a month card marked Imported, with a band noting that your signed form is the record.
- Edit or Delete a row from the table. A row opens its month.
Logged or imported, never both
Import is for months you have not tracked here. A logged entry can never land on an imported month, and an import can never land on a logged one.
How do I replay the welcome tour?
The welcome tour plays once setup is done. You can replay it any time from the Help Center.
How it plays
It is a handful of short slides, each with a live demo.
- Show me around starts it.
- Next and Back move through. The arrow keys work too.
- Skip the tour leaves at any point.
- The last slide's Get started (Go to my dashboard for a supervisor) lands on your dashboard.
Which tour you see
The tour follows your role and what you track.
- Fieldwork trainees see logging hours, staying compliant, reports and verification forms, your supervisor, and importing past hours.
- RBT trainees see logging your day, staying compliant, supervision records, your supervisor, and importing past months.
- Someone tracking both starts with the two workspaces.
- Supervisors see their supervisees, reviewing their work, signing forms, and Signed Forms.
The demos follow one example trainee, so the figures in them are that example's. Your own dashboard shows the requirements for your pathway.
What emails will I get, and how do I turn tips off?
In your first week you get a few short emails from ABA FT: a reminder to confirm your email if you have not yet, then two that match where you are, one about a day after you confirm and one about a week in. Never more than one in any three days.
- Not finished setup? A nudge to finish.
- Set up? A hand with your first hours (or, for a supervisor, your first trainee).
- Already logging? A note on your start, and one at a week in.
Turn them off
- In Settings, under Preferences, switch Tips and reminders to Off.
- Or tap Stop these emails at the foot of any of them.
- Your mail app's own Unsubscribe button works too.
Emails about your account, like password resets, forms to sign and security alerts, still arrive.
Changed your mind?
Opening the stop link changes nothing on its own. The page asks first.
Turn tips back on from that page, or in Settings, whenever you like.
Logging hours
Sessions, the hour allotment, and the Hours page.
How do I log a fieldwork session?
Log Hours sits in the top bar on every page. The form opens with today's date and the organization and supervisor from your last entry, so most sessions take a few taps.
The times
- Type the start as you would say it: 9, 930, 9:30 and 2p all read. AM or PM follows the working day. Tap AM or PM to change it.
- A finished start moves you to the end box. Type the end the same way.
The session's length shows in the footer.
The hour allotment
Every session is placed in the six boxes under Unrestricted and Restricted: Independent, Supervised individual and Supervised group.
- Tap an empty box. It takes the time left.
- To split the time, type over it, then tap the next box.
The pill at the top reads "All placed" once the boxes add up to the session. Which box an hour goes in explains the choices.
Supervision details
Once there is supervised or group time, two tiles appear: Supervision contact and Observation.
- Switch on what happened. Each tile shows this month's count at that organization.
- On the 2027 standard, the observation has its own start and end inside the session. Set them with the two handles, or type exact times.
- A summary of what you worked on together is recommended. Notes are optional, and never client identifying information.
Saving
Tap Save entry. The toast says "Hours logged successfully!" and the month updates. The supervisor and organization you used become the defaults for your next entry.
- Entries never cross midnight. An overnight session is two entries, one each side of the day.
- If the new entry overlaps one you already logged, the form says so at the end time.
On a phone
- The form takes the whole screen, with Save entry at your thumb.
- A tap on an empty allotment box fills it without raising the keyboard. A second tap lets you type.
- Back closes the form the way Cancel does. The form asks before discarding anything you typed.
Restricted or unrestricted: which box does an hour go in?
Every session goes into the six boxes of the hour allotment: one column for whether the hour was unrestricted or restricted, one row for how it was supervised. The boxes always add up to the session.
The rows
- Independent: time without your supervisor present.
- Supervised individual: time with your supervisor observing or directing you, one to one.
- Supervised group: a supervision meeting with your supervisor and other trainees.
The Supervised heading shows the two supervised rows added together. That sum is what your month's supervision share is measured on.
The columns
- Unrestricted: activities that need no training beyond your general coursework. Indirect assessment, data analysis, writing behavior plans, caregiver or staff training.
- Restricted: delivering behavior-analytic procedures directly to a client. Implementing a program, running discrete-trial or other intensive interventions, applying restrictive procedures.
Record a group meeting by what you were doing in it, like any other hour.
What the boxes feed
- The entries list shows each entry's split, with R on a restricted part.
- The month card spells out each kind's unrestricted and restricted hours.
- Group supervision is checked against your supervised hours each month.
- The unrestricted share is checked across all your months together, on the Progress page, never month by month.
The ? beside Hour allotment opens the same guide inside the form, based on the BACB fieldwork standards and its tip sheet. Ask your supervisor when an activity is hard to place.
How do I find and edit hours I already logged?
Hours, in the sidebar, lists what you logged: the current month to start with, the newest entry at the top. The dashboard's entries card shows one month, and its See all link opens this page.
Narrow the list
- Set a start and an end date. They begin at the current month's first and last day.
- Choose Date Completed or Date Added.
- With two or more organizations, pick one of them or All Organizations.
- Tap Apply. Clear drops the filters.
The list groups entries by month, 20 to a page, with Prev and Next underneath.
Read a row
Each row carries the date, the time range and weekday, the supervisor, the hours, the flags, and the total.
- A fieldwork row splits the hours into Independent, Supervised and Group, with R marking a restricted part. Its flags: a Supervision contact, an Observation, an Activity summary, and Notes.
- An RBT row shows its type, Supervised with the supervised time under it, Group and Observation as flags, and two totals, Service and Supervision.
Month and Week
The switch at the top offers List, Month and Week.
- Month is a calendar with each day's total and up to three entry chips.
- Week is a planner by hour on a desktop, and one list of cards per day on a phone.
- In the RBT workspace, supervision blocks are green and supervised sessions purple with a green edge. A day's total counts service only.
Open an entry
Tap any row, chip or block to open its card. Edit entry opens the form filled with the entry. Delete removes it. An RBT entry opens its whole day. Entry details: open, edit, delete walks it.
An edit keeps the old values of what changed, and a delete keeps a copy of the entry, for 30 days.
Log Hours in the top bar works here too. The view and the date type you pick are remembered.
How do I edit or delete an entry?
Tap an entry on the dashboard or the Hours page (a row, a calendar chip, or a week block) and its card opens, titled with the date. On a phone it fills the screen.
What the card shows
A fieldwork card shows:
- The time range and total.
- The organization and supervisor.
- The hours by kind, with any restricted part.
- A Supervision contact badge and the Observation window.
- The Activity summary and the Notes.
- When the entry was added.
An RBT entry opens its whole day: every session and supervision on the day planner, each with its supervisor, badges and notes.
Edit
- Tap Edit entry. The form opens filled with the entry.
- Change what you need and tap Update entry. It saves after the same checks as a new entry.
For an RBT day, Edit day loads the day into cards, with the date and organization fixed. Save changes replaces the day.
Delete
- Tap Delete. The foot of the card turns into a question.
- Tap Delete entry to remove the entry, or Delete day to remove every entry of that day.
The month recalculates right away.
After an edit or a delete
An edit keeps the old values of what changed, and a delete keeps a copy of the entry, for 30 days.
Close the card with Close, Escape, a tap outside it, or Back.
What if I switched between Supervised and Concentrated?
Each month keeps its own fieldwork type, so you can change one month without touching the others.
- Open the month on the dashboard, with one organization in view.
- On the month card, tap the other of the pair Supervised and Concentrated, and confirm.
The page reloads with that month re-judged under the other pathway's rules. Your other months and your account default do not change. A signed form for the month stays as it is.
Imported months and the default
- The pair shows only on your own logged months.
- An imported month changes on the Import Hours page: Edit the row, then Fieldwork type this month.
- The default for new months is in Settings under What you're tracking: Change, Fieldwork type, Save.
How both types add up
With months of both types, the Progress page shows a Supervised and Concentrated pill and a How it's calculated link that opens the math.
- Where the BACB states a conversion for your credential and standard, each Concentrated hour counts as Supervised hours by that multiplier.
- Where it states none, each month counts toward the total for its own type. A pathway that reaches its own total on its own counts as met.
- Your forms always record the hours actually worked.
How do I export my hours?
Export Hours, under Tools in the sidebar, downloads your logged hours as a CSV file: a personal, unofficial copy for your own records. Your hours stay in ABA FT whether you export or not, and your verified reports remain the official record.
The three steps
- Tap Export your data.
- Choose All hours or A specific month. The Month list offers only months with logged hours. An Organization box appears when that month has hours at two or more organizations.
- Tap Next to see what the file will hold, then Download CSV. The page stays where it is.
What is in the file
Each row is one entry: the date, the start and end times, the hours and their kinds, the supervision details, the organization, the supervisor, the notes, and when it was logged.
- In the RBT workspace, each row is a session or a supervision, with its contact format.
- Imported months are summaries rather than entries, so they are not in the file.
- The file is saved so that Excel opens it.
Before you have hours
The page reads No hours to export yet and offers Go to Hours.
Compliance and progress
What the checks mean, and fixing a month.
What does my fieldwork dashboard show?
The dashboard greets you by name and shows one month: the month card first, then that month's entries. Use the arrows beside the month name to step back through earlier months, and the organization filter to look at one organization or all of them.
The top bar, on every page
- Your lifetime hours toward your target.
- The current month's three requirements as chips, each with a ring that fills as you get closer. The month there is always the current one, at the organization of your latest entry.
Tap the chips to open that month's dashboard, or the hours to open Progress.
The month card
The card says how many requirements the month has met, and its status:
- On track once everything is met.
- In progress through the first half of the month.
- Needs attention from the second half on, or for a past month that ended short.
The left side splits the month's hours by kind. The right side lists each requirement with what is left. What the month card shows goes through every row.
The entries
Under the card, the month's entries are grouped by organization, each group with its hours, its supervision share and its status. Tap any row to open the entry. See all opens the Hours page.
Report
Report opens the month's report, with switches for the entry notes and the supervision summaries and, with more than one organization, a choice of all of them or one. Open it in a new tab, save it as a PDF, or print it.
How do I know if my month meets BACB requirements?
The month card checks one month at one organization against the BACB requirements for your pathway, credential and standard. The numbers it checks against are the rules themselves, shown on each row. The card never asks you to remember them.
Hours
The month's total against its minimum and its cap: In range once met, how many hours are to go while short, and how far over if the month passed the cap.
Supervision
Your supervised hours as a share of the month's hours, against the minimum share. While short, it says how much more supervision reaches the share, in minutes under an hour and hours above.
When no amount of logging could reach it under the hours cap, the row says so instead of asking.
Observation time, contacts and observations
Observation time (2027 standard) counts the minutes your supervisor observed you with a client, against the month's minimum.
On the pre-2027 standard, the card shows Contacts and Observations as counts instead.
Group supervision
Your group hours as a share of your supervised hours, against the maximum. With no supervision logged yet there is nothing to judge, so the row rests.
The rings and the status
- Each row has a ring that fills toward the minimum and turns green with a check once met. An exclamation marks a row over its cap.
- The head counts the rows met and gives the month one status: On track, In progress, or Needs attention.
- The checks inform you. They never block an entry.
The unrestricted share is not on the card, because the BACB measures it across your whole fieldwork. The Progress page shows it.
More than one organization
The dashboard's whole-month view lists each organization's month on its own line, because every organization is checked separately.
Why does my month say Needs attention?
Needs attention means the month is short in its second half, or it ended short. Every month at every organization gets one of three words:
- On track: the month meets every monthly check.
- In progress: it is still short, and the month is in its first half.
- Needs attention: it is short in the second half of the month, or it ended short.
The same word shows on the month card, on each organization's line, on the entries groups, in the top bar's chips, and in the Months list on Progress, which can filter to Needs attention.
See what is short
- Open the month.
- Read each row of the card. It says what is left: hours to go, more supervision in minutes or hours, more contacts or observations, or how far a figure is over its maximum.
Going over the hours cap or the group maximum reads Needs attention at once, whatever the day. Fix a month that is not compliant goes through the fixes.
It informs, never blocks
The word informs you. It never blocks an entry.
In the RBT workspace, a month with no service hours is a rest month. Nothing is owed, so it gets no status.
How do I fix a month that is not compliant?
Open the month from the dashboard arrows, or from the Months list on Progress with its Needs attention filter. Each row of the month card says what is left, and the month re-judges on every save.
What each row asks for
- Hours to go: log the sessions. A month over the cap only changes by editing entries.
- More supervision: log the supervised time. The row says how much. If it reads Can't reach the share under the cap, no amount of supervision makes the month pass.
- More contacts or observations: open the entry where it happened and switch on Supervision contact or Observation (on the 2027 standard, with its time). The form's tiles show this month's counts.
- The wrong fieldwork type: the month card's Supervised or Concentrated control re-judges the month under the other rules (I switched between Supervised and Concentrated).
Imported months and RBT months
An imported month changes through Edit the import on its card.
In the RBT workspace, the rows ask for more supervision, contacts, individual contacts, or observations with a client. Add the supervised session or the meeting in the day form.
Nothing is enforced
ABA FT shows how a month is doing and never blocks an entry. A signed form is covered in Reports and verification forms.
Do all my hours count toward my target?
Yes. Every hour you log is counted here. Every fieldwork hour you log or import is in your total and in the share on the top bar and the Progress page.
ABA FT is a calculator, not a gatekeeper. It checks your hours against the rules for your pathway, shows how you are doing, and never blocks an entry. A month over the hours cap keeps counting; its row says how far over it went.
Month statuses
The month statuses say which months to review, and the Progress page counts the months that met everything. A month that fell short keeps all of its hours. The unrestricted share is checked across all your months together and never zeroes a month.
Short months on the form
ABA FT records the hours you worked and changes none of them. What the BACB does with a short month on the verification form depends on your pathway, so ask your supervisor how to report it.
- Supervised Fieldwork: the BACB's adjustment table says how many of a short month's hours the form can claim.
- Concentrated Supervised Fieldwork: the hours are never adjusted. A month that misses any requirement does not count as Concentrated. It counts as Supervised only if it met every Supervised requirement that month.
In the RBT workspace
There is no certification target. Every session counts toward your service hours, the base your monthly supervision share is measured against.
Where do I see my total hours toward certification?
Progress, in the sidebar, is the whole of your fieldwork on one page: your total toward certification, the checks that run across every month, a chart by month, and a list of every month with its status. The top bar's lifetime figure opens it too.
The journey card
Toward BCBA certification (or Toward BCaBA certification) shows your hours of the target and the share, with a pill for your pathway. Imported months are in the total.
- Once the target is reached it reads Requirement met and points to the Final Fieldwork Verification Form under Reports.
- A mixed account reads Supervised and Concentrated, with How it's calculated opening the math.
All your months
- Unrestricted is your unrestricted share across all your months, against the minimum for your credential. The row says how many more unrestricted hours reach it. The check is cumulative, which is why it lives here and not on the month card.
- Months that met everything counts the calendar months that passed so far, and how many need attention.
- Supervision is information only. The real check is month by month.
Hours by month
The chart shows each month by hour type. Switch to Running total to watch the hours climb toward the target. The arrow keys walk the months, and every number is in the list below.
Months
Every month in one list, grouped by year, with its hours, supervision share, unrestricted share, and status.
- When a month needs attention, a filter shows those alone.
- Imported months are marked, and so is each month's pathway on a mixed account. A month at several organizations names them.
- A row opens that month on the dashboard.
Create report at the end builds the overall progress report, every month in one PDF. In the RBT workspace this page is Supervision history: What the RBT monthly checks mean covers it.
Reports and forms
Signing, sending, and corrections.
Where do I find my M-FVF and F-FVF verification forms?
Reports in the sidebar opens on your verification forms: the BACB's Monthly and Final Fieldwork Verification Forms (M-FVF and F-FVF), filled in from your logged hours and organized by organization. ABA FT's own reports are the second view.
The four numbers
Across the top:
- Your fieldwork hours, and the months and organizations they span.
- The monthly and Final forms signed.
- What is waiting on a supervisor.
- What needs your signature.
Needs your signature
Months that ended without a form come first, each with Preview and Sign. The card's hint names the BACB deadline for a monthly form.
Below it, filters narrow the page to All, To sign, Waiting or Signed, one organization, or one year.
One section per organization
Each organization opens with its Final form, then a table of its months: hours, the lead supervisor, the form's version (Individual or Multiple supervisors), a compliance mark and a status.
- A tick means the month meets every BACB check. A cross and Not BACB-compliant ask you to review it before signing. Signing stays your call.
- A month still ahead of its deadline shows a Due chip.
- A month imported from before ABA FT reads Verified before ABA FT and has no form here.
- An unsigned row offers Preview and Sign. A signed row offers View and a ••• menu with Download PDF, Print and, while the form waits on your supervisor, Reset.
Sign a monthly or final form walks the sign sheet.
Reports
The Reports toggle shows the Total Fieldwork Report, every month and organization in one document, and a Monthly report for each month with activity, each with View, PDF and Print.
The dashboard's Report button opens the same monthly report, with switches for entry notes and supervision summaries. Reports or verification forms? says which to use when.
On a phone
Every row is a card. On Android, View and Print open the PDF itself.
How is a report different from a verification form?
A verification form is the BACB's own template, filled in at each field from your logged hours: the Monthly Fieldwork Verification Form (M-FVF) for one month at one organization, the Final Fieldwork Verification Form (F-FVF) for all your fieldwork at one organization.
- You sign it, then your supervisor does.
- It prints clean. The compliance check shows beside it on the page and in the sign sheet, never on the PDF.
- The template follows your own standard, pre-2027 or 2027.
A report
A report is ABA FT's own document, marked ABA FT report.
- The Total Fieldwork Report covers every month and organization, logged and imported.
- A Monthly report covers one month, with its hour entries and a BACB Compliance section.
- Reports are never signed. A supervisor viewing your account can open and print them too.
Imported months
Imported months tell the two apart:
- A report folds them in.
- A monthly form exists only for a month logged here. The row reads Verified before ABA FT.
- The Final form counts them in the organization's total.
Where to find them
Both live on the Reports page, under its toggle.
How do I sign my monthly or final verification form?
Sign, on a month row, the Needs your signature card or an organization's Final form, opens the sign sheet.
Form
Individual or Multiple supervisors. The sheet starts on the version your entries suggest. The choice is yours.
A monthly form shows its Sign by date. Preview opens the unsigned form.
Supervisor
The supervisors with hours this month come first, then the rest of your roster. The one on most entries is already picked.
On a Final's Multiple supervisors version, tick who is listed, up to the form's lines, and mark one Responsible.
The status line
It says Ready to sign, or how many things to check: a month that misses a BACB requirement, or a box the app cannot fill, which a printed copy takes by hand.
Nothing here blocks signing. You and your supervisor decide.
Your signature
- Choose Draw, Type, Upload, or Saved after your first signing.
- Confirm with your full name. The signature you use becomes the saved one.
- Tap Sign form. The month's hours are frozen into the form.
Send a form to your supervisor comes next.
How do I send a form to my supervisor to sign?
What happens after Sign form depends on whether your supervisor is connected in ABA FT.
Connected
Nothing to send. The toast says the form is waiting on their dashboard to e-sign. It is also on their Signed Forms page.
Your row reads Waiting for their name until they sign, then Signed with the date.
Not connected
The sheet Send it to your supervisor opens right after you sign. It asks for their email if your roster has none, and offers three choices:
- Invite them to ABA FT: an email asks for their signature. They review the form beside your logged hours and e-sign it in the app. Joining from the invitation connects them with you.
- Email them the signed PDF: the copy you signed, to review or print, with a Sign online button that creates a free supervisor account.
- Not now: the form stays saved. Print it from the row's ••• menu for a handwritten signature.
Once only
The sheet appears once. The page has no send button later. My supervisor is not in the app has more.
Why does my signature show a different date?
The date beside your signature is the calendar day where you were when you signed. Your browser sends its timezone with the signature, and the day is taken in that zone. Your supervisor's signature is dated the same way.
Privacy browsers
Some privacy browsers report UTC whatever the clock says. ABA FT ignores a UTC-like zone and uses the timezone saved on your account in Settings instead. Check that it is yours if you sign from one of those.
Frozen with the signature
The date is frozen with the signature, so you both see the same day:
- On the PDF.
- On the Reports page, as Signed with the date (or in the title of Waiting for their name while your supervisor has yet to sign).
- In the email they receive.
Why it matters
Where a form has a signing deadline, the Reports page counts it to midnight in your own timezone, and the form shows the day where you signed. A server's clock used to put tomorrow's date on an evening signature.
Do I need one Final form (F-FVF) per organization?
The BACB's instruction on the Final Fieldwork Verification Form (F-FVF) reads "Please complete one form per organization", so ABA FT keeps one Final form for each organization you have fieldwork at. Each heads its organization's section on the Reports page with its own status: Not started, Waiting for your supervisor, or Signed with the date.
What the form totals
- That organization's hours, logged here and imported, first month to last.
- Hours logged with no organization are on no Final form.
- A deactivated organization still gets its form.
The version and who signs
- The version follows the supervisors at that organization: Individual with one, Multiple supervisors with more. The sign sheet lets you change it.
- On the Multiple version, tick who is listed, up to the form's lines, and mark one Responsible. That supervisor signs.
- The BACB Final form carries only the supervisor's signature. Yours is kept with the form in your account, never printed on it.
Two organizations, two forms
A supervisor at two of your organizations gets two forms.
A Final signed before forms were filed per organization stays exactly as signed, in its own block.
How do I correct a form I already signed?
A signed form or record is never edited. To correct one, reset it, fix the hours, and sign a fresh one from your current data.
Before your supervisor signs
While the row reads Waiting for their name (or Signed by you on an RBT record):
- Open the row's ••• menu and choose Reset. The confirmation says the signed copy is discarded.
- The row returns to Not started. Correct the entries.
- Tap Sign again.
After your supervisor signs
The form is locked for you. Ask them to reset their signature:
- Signed Forms in their sidebar opens their Verification Forms page.
- The form's ••• menu has Reset my signature.
- The form returns to the state where only you had signed, recorded in the audit log. You can then reset it and sign a corrected one.
What a reset discards
Only the signed copy. On the Reports page, a signed form whose hours have since changed is marked Signed for the hours it was signed with, so you can see which months want a fresh form.
Supervisors and organizations
Your team, their access, and the places you work.
How do I give my supervisor access to my hours?
The Supervisors page lists the people you log hours with. They show on your entries and verification forms, and you can give any of them access to review your hours and sign in the app. Add a supervisor walks the sheet.
The cards
Each active supervisor is a card:
- Name, credential and BACB ID.
- A tag reading Has access, Invite sent or No access.
- Your hours together (service hours in the RBT workspace), supervision, and contacts or, on the 2027 standard, observation minutes, with a bar for their share of your supervision.
The numbers are for the workspace you are in.
Access
- Tap a card to open it.
- Tap Give access. The edit sheet opens with the switch on.
- Choose Email or Link, and tap Save changes.
- While an invite waits, Resend invite sends a new email (or a new link when there is no address), and Get a link makes a fresh link that lasts an hour.
- A connected supervisor sees your hours and reports read-only and signs your forms. They cannot change anything.
- Remove access from Settings, under Who can view your account. They stay on your Supervisors list, and you can give access again later.
Edit, deactivate, reactivate
- Edit changes the name, email, BACB ID or credential.
- Deactivate takes a supervisor out of your lists. Your logged hours with them stay. If they have access, the sheet asks whether to remove it too.
- Inactive supervisors sit in their own section with Reactivate.
- An email address belongs to one active supervisor at a time, so a reactivation is refused while another active supervisor holds it.
How do I add or invite a supervisor?
Open Supervisors in the sidebar and tap Add supervisor. The sheet asks for a first and last name. Email, BACB ID and credential are optional.
Give access
To let your supervisor see your account:
- Switch on Give access to your account. They can view your hours and reports, and sign your forms in the app.
- Choose Email, and an invite goes to the address above when you save. Or choose Link, and you get a link to share, which anyone can accept within the hour.
- Tap Add supervisor.
The card reads Invite sent until they accept, then Has access. An email invitation works for seven days, and accepting it creates their free account if they do not have one.
If no invite went out
The message says why, like a mistyped address. A fresh email or link can go from the supervisor's card later: Supervisors: adding them and giving access.
From the hour form
In the middle of logging? The last row of the supervisor list in the hour form is Add supervisor. Save, and the new one is chosen for you.
What if my supervisor is not in the app?
You can always sign. A form or record you have signed stands on its own, and a supervisor without an ABA FT account can sign a printed copy by hand. With no supervisor in your account, the sheet says the form prints without one.
The three choices
Right after you sign, a sheet says they are not connected with you in ABA FT yet, and offers:
- Invite them to ABA FT: emails a request to review the form beside your logged hours and e-sign it. The link creates a free supervisor account connected with you, and the form waits on their dashboard.
- Email them the signed PDF: sends the copy you signed, to review or print, with a Sign online button that creates the account too.
- Not now: keeps it saved. The row's ••• menu has Download PDF and Print.
Their tag on Supervisors
On the Supervisors page their tag reads Has access, Invite sent or No access.
Waiting for a signature
Until a connected supervisor e-signs, the row keeps reading Waiting for their name, even after a paper signature. There is no place to record a handwritten one.
How do I manage the organizations where I work?
Organizations are the places your fieldwork happens (your RBT work, in the RBT workspace). Every hour entry belongs to one. Add an organization walks the sheet.
The cards
Each active organization is a card:
- The name, its type and state.
- The first and last month you logged there.
- Its fieldwork hours (service hours for RBT), months and supervision share.
- A bar for its share of your fieldwork. The bars divide by all your hours, inactive organizations included.
The sheet
Tap a card. The sheet adds:
- The months (or No hours yet) and your supervisors there.
- What prints on your forms: the state where the fieldwork happened, or a note to add one in Edit.
- For fieldwork, the state of the organization's Final form (Signed, Waiting for your supervisor, or Not started) with Open in Reports, because each organization has its own: One Final form per organization.
Edit, deactivate, reactivate
- Edit opens the same form as adding, with Save changes.
- Deactivate takes the organization out of your lists. Its hours and forms stay.
- Inactive organizations sit in their own section, marked imported when only imports are there, with Reactivate.
- A name belongs to one active organization at a time, so a reactivation is refused while another active one has the same name. Rename it first.
How do I add a clinic, school or other organization?
Open Organizations in the sidebar and tap Add organization. Every hour entry belongs to one organization.
The sheet
- Enter the name.
- Choose the type: Clinic, School, Hospital, Private practice, University, or Other.
- Choose the country and the state where the fieldwork happened. Outside the United States, type the state, province or region. The state goes on your BACB verification forms.
- Tap Add organization. The card appears.
Names and achievements
A name is used once among your active organizations. The sheet says so if it is taken.
Your first organization earns the Team Player achievement, a second one Multi-Site.
From the hour form
In the middle of logging? The last row of the organization list in the hour form is Add organization. Save, and the new organization is chosen in the form.
Why does my invitation say Please log in to accept?
You opened an invitation while signed out, and the address it went to already has an ABA FT account.
- Sign in to that account. The app returns you to the invitation.
- Tap Accept Invitation (or Decline).
No account yet? The link opens Create account instead, with your address filled in and locked. Finishing creates the connection for you.
Who can accept
- An email invitation can only be accepted from the address it went to, by someone other than the sender, and by the opposite role: one of you a trainee, the other a supervisor.
- A shared link also needs a verified email first.
- An email invitation works for seven days, a shared link for an hour. Past that, ask for a new one.
After you accept
The sender gets an email once you accept.
Not who you expected? Either of you can remove the connection later, from Supervisors or from My Trainees.
Fieldwork and RBT together
Adding RBT supervision, the switch between the two, and an hour in both.
FOR RBTS
RBT supervision tracking
Ongoing monthly supervision at each workplace: logging a day, the monthly checks, and your Monthly Supervision Record.
Getting started
Setup, tracking RBT supervision, your first day and earlier months.
How do I start tracking RBT supervision?
Open Settings from the account card and find What you're tracking.
- Tap Change.
- Under What do you track?, choose RBT supervision (or Both, if you are also earning fieldwork hours).
- Tap Save. The page reloads. With both on, an RBT and Fieldwork switch appears on the account card.
Setup asks the same question on its I'm tracking screen. The pathway questions after it are for fieldwork only.
What is checked each month
The card then lists what ABA FT checks every month at each workplace:
- The share of your service hours that was supervised.
- Your supervision contacts, and how many of them must be individual.
- Your supervisor observing you with a client.
The figures come from the RBT ruleset and show on the page. ABA FT checks your hours against these and shows you how you are doing. It never blocks an entry.
No totals, no caps
- The RBT checks reset each calendar month and are judged at each organization on its own.
- There is no hour minimum or cap, no group cap, and no certification total.
- Keep at least one tracker on. Turning one off moves you to the other.
Can I import RBT months from before I joined?
Yes. In the RBT workspace, Import Hours under Tools takes months you worked before joining ABA FT, as one summary per month, per organization. Match your monthly supervision records, and add only months you have not already logged here.
The form
Tap Add Month and fill in:
- The month and year, the organization and the supervisor.
- Service Hours: the behavior-analytic service you provided to clients that month.
- Supervision Received: the time your supervisor spent supervising you, in sessions or in meetings. The headline shows the supervision share as you type.
- Under Supervision That Month: the Individual Contacts, the Group Contacts, and the Observations. Observations are counted within your contacts, so never more than them.
Save & done finishes. Save + add previous month reopens the form on the month before.
After the import
- An imported month joins your Supervision History with its monthly checks, judged on the totals you entered by the same rules as a logged month. It reads Requirements met or Needs attention.
- On the dashboard it is a month card marked Imported, with Edit the import in its band.
- Your own retained records stay the official documentation.
Logging on an imported month
Once a month is imported you cannot log a day on it. Edit or delete the import first.
Logging your day
Sessions and supervision on one form, and the Hours page.
How do I log an RBT day of sessions and supervision?
Log Hours opens your day: one form for every session and supervision meeting on a date, saved together. Each stretch of time is a card, and the planner above the footer draws the day as you go.
Sessions
The form opens on today, with the organization in view and one Session card.
- Type the start and end as you would say them: 9, 930 and 2p all read. AM or PM follows the working day.
- Pick the supervisor.
- Tap Add session for the next stretch. It starts where the last one ended, with the same supervisor. Finished cards fold to one line.
Add a note holds anything worth remembering, never client identifying information.
Your supervisor was there
- Switch on Supervised. The whole session counts as supervised time.
- If they were there for part of it, move the handles, or tap Exact times.
- Observation starts on, because watching you work with a client is an observation. Turn it off if they did not.
- Switch on Group if other RBTs were there.
The supervision note says what the contact covered. Each toggle shows this month's count.
A meeting outside your sessions
Tap Add supervision. A Supervision card holds a one-on-one meeting, a case review, or group supervision, in person or by live video. It counts toward supervision only.
Save day
The footer sums the day, such as "2 sessions · 5h · 1h supervised". Tap Save day and every card is written at once. A supervised session saves as the session plus its supervision.
- Sessions cannot overlap each other, and a day holds at most 20 entries.
- To change a day, open any of its entries and tap Edit day. Save changes replaces the whole day.
- The ? beside Sessions and supervision explains what counts. Examples fills in a school, a clinic, and an in-home day.
Your month
The monthly checks, and fixing a month that falls short.
What do the RBT monthly supervision checks mean?
The RBT month card checks one month at one organization against the RBT ruleset: four checks in a grid, each with its figure on screen.
- Supervision: your supervised time as a share of your service hours, against the minimum.
- Contacts: your live, face-to-face meetings with your supervisor.
- Individual contact: those with no other RBTs present.
- Observation: the times your supervisor watched you live with a client.
Each row says what is left. The head counts the checks met and gives the month its status.
Every month, every organization
- The checks reset every calendar month and are judged at each organization on its own.
- There is no hour minimum, no cap, and no running total.
- A month with no service hours is a rest month. The card reads Nothing owed this month, and supervision is owed once service hours are logged.
The top bar and Supervision history
The top bar repeats the current month's service hours, supervision share, and contacts.
Supervision history, the Progress page in this workspace, lists every organization-month with its share, its contacts, and its status. It can filter to Needs attention.
The checks are based on the BACB's RBT requirements. They inform you and never block an entry.
Can I get one RBT monthly report for all my organizations?
Yes. With two or more organizations, the RBT dashboard's Report button can show a whole month in one document.
- Tap Report.
- Under Organization, choose All organizations. The title becomes the month's RBT Monthly Report.
- Switch on entry notes or supervision summaries if you want them.
- Tap Open in new tab, Save as PDF or Print.
What the report holds
- A Monthly Summary across organizations: service hours, supervision hours and their share of the service hours, contacts, and observations.
- One section per organization, with its numbers and its Sessions and Supervision table. The supervisors are listed once. An organization with nothing that month is left out.
- A month you imported on the Import Hours page is a section of its own, marked Imported, with the totals you entered in place of a table.
An overview, not a record
The RBT Monthly Supervision Record, signed by you and your supervisor, stays one per organization on the Records page.
With one organization, the sheet opens that organization's record instead, and the Records page has no button for it.
Monthly Supervision Records
Getting a record signed, and correcting one.
How do I get my RBT Monthly Supervision Record signed?
In the RBT workspace, Reports in the sidebar opens the Records page: one Monthly Supervision Record for each month and organization with service or supervision hours, newest first. The record is ABA FT's own document, filled from your logged days. It is not a BACB form; the BACB publishes no monthly RBT supervision form.
Sign a record
Each row offers View, Print and Sign. A month that misses a check wears Needs attention. Signing stays your call.
- Tap Sign.
- Choose the responsible supervisor. The status line shows the month's checks.
- Add your signature. The month's numbers are frozen into the record as you sign.
Your supervisor's signature
- A connected supervisor finds the record on their dashboard with an RBT Record pill.
- Otherwise the send sheet offers to invite them, email them the signed PDF, or wait.
- The row reads Signed by you until they sign, then Signed. Reset is there while it waits.
My supervisor is not in the app and Reset or correct a signed form have the rest.
Preview and imported months
The dashboard's Report button previews the month's record. An imported month has no record here.
Supervisors and organizations
Your team, their access, and the places you work.
RBT and fieldwork together
Earning fieldwork too: the switch, and an hour in both.
How do I switch between my RBT and fieldwork workspaces?
When you track both RBT supervision and fieldwork, the account card at the foot of the sidebar carries a Workspace switch: RBT and Fieldwork.
- Find the switch on the account card. On a phone, open the menu first. When the sidebar is collapsed to its rail, the switch sits inside the account menu.
- Tap the other workspace. The page reloads there.
What follows the switch
Everything: the dashboard and its month card, the Hours page and its lists, Progress (Supervision history in RBT), Import Hours, Export Hours, Reports, and the top bar's status and its Log Hours button.
The account card's subtitle says where you are: RBT · Ongoing Supervision, or your fieldwork standard, credential and pathway.
Two workspaces, nothing mixed
- The two workspaces keep their own months, imports and lists.
- A tracker that is off cannot be switched to. Turn it on in Settings under What you're tracking first.
- Turning a tracker off there moves you to the one still on.
Can the same hour count for RBT and fieldwork?
In ABA FT, yes. If you work as an RBT while earning fieldwork hours, an hour you worked can be a session in your RBT workspace and an entry in your Fieldwork workspace.
Log it once in each: the session in the RBT day form, the entry in the fieldwork form. Neither form refuses the other's time. Each checks overlaps within its own track only.
Two tracks, separate months
- The two tracks keep separate months and never read each other.
- RBT supervision is checked against your service hours under the RBT ruleset. Fieldwork supervision is checked against the month's fieldwork hours under your pathway's rules.
- Imports are separate too. An imported RBT month can sit beside a fieldwork month you logged.
Switching and turning both on
- Switch between the two on the account card at the foot of the sidebar: Switch between RBT and Fieldwork.
- Turn both on in Settings under What you're tracking. The hint reads "Working as an RBT while you earn fieldwork hours? Choose both and switch between them anytime."
Ask your supervisor
Whether a worked hour may count toward both is a question for your supervisor and the BACB's rules. ABA FT only lets you record it in both places.
FOR SUPERVISORS
The supervisor view
Review and sign, in whichever track your supervisees work. Read-only access, your signature always in your control.
Getting started
What you can do, and connecting with a trainee.
What can I do with a supervisor account?
A supervisor account is for reviewing and signing. Trainees connect their account with yours. From then on you see their records and sign their forms, and nothing they logged can be changed from your side.
Your sidebar
- My Trainees is your home page: every connected trainee's current month, and the forms waiting for your signature.
- Activity lists the entries your trainees logged, edited or deleted over the last 30 days.
- Analytics adds up your roster, and Community completes the list.
- Under Tools, Signed Forms opens the page titled Verification Forms, your signing queue and your archive, with a count on the item whenever a form is waiting.
- Help Center and your account card sit at the foot. The card's menu holds Account, Settings and Log Out.
What you can do
- Connect with trainees by inviting them, or by accepting the access they offer you. Connect with a trainee.
- Open any trainee read-only: their Dashboard, Progress, Hours, Reports and Export Hours, as they see them. Review a trainee's hours.
- Sign the forms they send: the BACB's Monthly and Final Fieldwork Verification Forms, and the RBT Monthly Supervision Record, which is our own document. Sign a verification form or record.
- Keep every form you signed, and reset your signature when a form needs a correction. Verification Forms: your queue and archive.
What you cannot do
Log hours, edit an entry, or change a trainee's organizations or supervisors. There is no Log Hours in your top bar, and the trainee-only pages refuse a supervisor.
Settings puts it in one line: "You can view their records and sign their verification forms; you can't change anything."
Your credentials
Your credential, BACB ID and specializations print on the forms you sign. Setup asks for them, and Profile keeps them current. Your email addresses change under Settings.
How do I connect with a trainee?
A trainee is on your roster once one of you invites the other and the invitation is accepted. Invite Trainee on My Trainees does it from your side.
Email or link
- Tap Invite Trainee.
- Choose Email Invite to send the invitation to the trainee's address. They have seven days to accept. Or choose Invite Link to make a link you copy and share yourself. It works for an hour.
- The trainee signs in, or creates a free account, and accepts. You get an email when they do.
From the trainee's side
Trainees can start it too. On their Supervisors page, Give access sends you the same kind of invitation, by email or by link. Their Settings offers the same.
Archive and disconnect
Each card's Quick actions menu holds Archive and Disconnect.
- Archive hides the trainee from your active list and pauses your access. Restore brings them back.
- Disconnect removes the connection for both of you. They leave your roster and you lose access to their data. Their own records stay untouched, either of you can send a new invite later, and the forms you signed stay signed.
Reviewing trainees
Their hours, their activity, and analytics.
What does the My Trainees page show?
My Trainees is your home page. The forms waiting for your signature come first, then the filter bar, then one card per connected trainee with their current month.
The queue
Forms Awaiting Your Signature appears only while something waits. Each row names the trainee, the kind of form (Monthly Form, Final Form or RBT Record), the month and organization, and when it was sent. Review & Sign opens it. Sign a verification form or record.
The cards
A card carries the trainee's name, their last entry's date (amber once it is more than 14 days old), and one block per track: the month and Fieldwork, or the month, RBT and the workplace. A trainee who tracks both has both blocks and both badges.
The block's pill sums the month up: On track, Needs attention (its tooltip lists the reasons), No hours yet, or Rest month on an RBT block.
The tiles check the month against the rules for the trainee's pathway, credential and standard. Each tooltip shows the figure it checks.
- Hours This Month reads Within range, Over the cap or Below minimum.
- Supervision shows the month's share with Passing or Below minimum.
- Contacts reads Met or Needs n more.
- Observations or Obs. Minutes reads Met or Needed.
- Group Supervision appears only when over the cap. Entries and Total Progress count.
- A month at more than one organization reads combined instead of a verdict.
- The RBT block leads with Supervision, then Service Hours, Contacts, Individual Contacts, Observations and Entries.
Click the card for the trainee's dashboard, or a block for that track. The Quick actions menu jumps to Dashboard, Progress, Hours, Reports or Export Hours, and holds Archive and Disconnect.
Finding a trainee
- Search matches names.
- Status shows Active, Archived or All. Type, Fieldwork or RBT, appears once your roster has both.
- Sort by first or last name, Needs Attention First, Most Compliant First or Most Hours.
On a phone a card keeps the essentials and any failing tile.
How do I review a trainee's hours?
Click a trainee's card on My Trainees and you are on their dashboard, read-only. You see the pages they see, with their numbers.
Their pages in your sidebar
- While you view a trainee, the sidebar becomes their pages: Dashboard, Progress, Hours, Reports and Export Hours under their name, with My Trainees to leave.
- The top bar shows who you are viewing. That button opens a list of your other trainees, so you can move to the next one without going back.
- For a trainee who tracks both, an RBT | Fieldwork switch sits beside it in the top bar. It changes only what you are looking at, is remembered for your session, and never touches their account.
Read-only everywhere
- Open any entry to read its card and close it again. There is no Edit or Delete, and Hours says Read-only view at the top.
- Report on their dashboard opens the month's report.
- Under Reports you can View and Print their forms.
Can I edit a trainee's hours? and Export a trainee's hours cover the rest.
How do I see what my trainees logged recently?
Activity lists your trainees' hour entries as they are logged, edited and deleted, newest first, over the last 30 days. It covers every active trainee. Nothing from the feed shows on My Trainees.
Read a row
Each row carries the trainee, a badge (Logged, Edited or Deleted) with how long ago, then the date, time, hours, type, organization and flags.
- An RBT day is one row. Its time cell counts the sessions and its hours cell adds the supervision.
- On an edited row the old value is struck through, with the new value in green beneath, cell by cell.
- A deleted row is struck through in red.
Open an entry
Click a row to open the entry's card.
- An edit adds a Changes block listing each change. When a note changed it says Updated, never the note itself.
- A deleted entry opens as a card marked Deleted, built from what the feed kept.
- View trainee takes you to that trainee's dashboard in the matching track.
Filter and load more
The filter at the top narrows the feed to one trainee. Load more walks further back, as far as the 30 days reach.
What does supervisor Analytics show?
Analytics adds up your connected trainees. Four totals sit at the top:
- Trainees: currently connected.
- Hour Entries: individual and imported.
- Hours Logged: logged and imported.
- Time Logged: the same hours as one continuous span.
Trends
Under Trends, three charts follow the same roster: Trainees Logged In, Hour Entries, and Hours Logged with logged and imported stacked.
- Day, Week and Month regroup all three at once.
- Each grain is a rolling window ending today: Last 14 days, Last 26 weeks or Last 24 months. A quiet period shows as 0.
- Values print above the points and bars, and days are labelled with their weekday.
What counts
Hours here are worked hours: fieldwork hours and RBT service hours. The supervision half of an RBT day is not counted.
Trainees Logged In counts the people on your roster who signed in during each period, each person once.
Before your first trainee
Until your first trainee connects, the page says so and waits.
Can I edit a trainee's hours?
No. Your view of a trainee is read-only everywhere: Hours says Read-only view, an entry's card closes without an Edit or Delete button, and their forms offer View and Print.
Settings puts it in one line for both of you: "You can view their records and sign their verification forms; you can't change anything."
When an entry needs a correction
Ask the trainee to make it. Their edits and deletes show on your Activity page for 30 days, with the old value struck through and the new one beneath, so you can see what changed. The Activity feed.
What you can change
Your own side:
- Your signature on a form: sign it, or reset it to reopen the form.
- The connection: archive, restore or disconnect.
- The invitations you send, and your profile.
Exporting a trainee's hours changes nothing either. The download is recorded as made by you.
How do I export a trainee's hours?
You can download a trainee's logged hours as a CSV file for your own records. Open the trainee and choose Export Hours, in the sidebar or in the card's Quick actions menu.
The three steps
The page says what the file is before you start: a copy of the trainee's hours for your own records, while their official record stays in ABA FT, backed by their verified reports or supervision records.
- Tap Export these hours.
- Choose every hour or one month (and one organization when the month has several).
- Tap Next, then Download CSV.
What is in the file
The file follows the track you are viewing.
- A fieldwork export carries each entry's times, hour allotment, supervision contact and observation details, organization and supervisor.
- An RBT export carries the sessions and supervision events with their format.
- Only logged entries go out. An imported month is a summary and is not in the file.
Exporting changes nothing on the trainee's account, and the download is recorded as made by you.
Nothing to export yet
A trainee with no logged hours yet has nothing to export, and the page says so.
Signing forms
Review and sign, corrections, and your archive.
How do I sign a trainee's verification form or record?
A trainee signs first and picks you as the responsible supervisor. The form then waits for you in three places: Forms Awaiting Your Signature on My Trainees, Awaiting your signature on the Verification Forms page, and a count on Signed Forms in the sidebar. Review & Sign opens it.
The page
- The heading says who asked you to sign what: a Monthly Verification Form, a Final Fieldwork Verification Form for one organization, or an RBT Supervision Record.
- The filled form sits in a preview, with the sign card beside it on a wide screen and below it on a phone.
- Where the browser cannot show a PDF on the page (Android phones among them), a Review the form card offers Open the form in a new tab.
Review every number before you sign.
Your signature
- Under Sign as your name, choose Draw, Type or Upload, or Saved once you have signed before. Type asks for your full name. Upload takes a PNG or JPG. Saved shows your stored signature and asks for your full name to confirm it.
- Tap Sign form.
The signature you use becomes your default next time, with no save step. The date beside your signature is your calendar day where you are.
After signing
- The sign card gives way to Signed. The signed form is in the preview and is now available to both of you.
- Back to dashboard returns you to My Trainees.
- The form moves to Signed on the Verification Forms page, where you can view, download or print it, or reset your signature to reopen it. Verification Forms: your queue and archive.
We do not email the trainee. The signed form is theirs in the app too.
Nothing blocks a signature. Our check of the month was shown to the trainee before they signed and is kept with the form. Signing stays your call. If the page says the form changed, it may have been reset: refresh and try again.
Where are the forms I need to sign, and the ones I signed?
Signed Forms in the sidebar, under Tools, opens the page titled Verification Forms: the forms your trainees sent for your signature, and everything you have signed, grouped by trainee and organization.
Awaiting your signature
Awaiting your signature comes first, with a count. The same rows appear on My Trainees.
- View opens the trainee-signed form.
- Review & Sign opens the signing page.
When nothing waits, the card says so.
Signed
Signed is your archive: each trainee, then each organization, with one row per form showing the month, the hours, the kind of form (Monthly form, Final form or RBT record), the version it was signed with (Individual or Multiple supervisors), and Signed with the date, your calendar day when you signed.
- View opens the PDF.
- The ••• menu holds Download PDF, Print and Reset my signature.
- The list shows your newest 100 signed forms.
Kept after a disconnect
Forms stay here after a trainee is archived or disconnected, so both of you keep the signed documentation for as long as the BACB asks. The sidebar item shows a count whenever a form is waiting on you.
What is an RBT Monthly Supervision Record?
The RBT® Monthly Supervision Record is our own document, not a BACB form: the BACB publishes no official monthly form for RBT supervision. It reaches your queue as RBT Record, signed on the same page as the verification forms.
What the record holds
Each record covers one RBT, one month, one organization.
- A Monthly Summary: Service Hours, Supervision Hours as a share of them, Supervision Contacts and Observations.
- The month's sessions and supervision, tabled beneath.
- Supervisors, each with credential and BACB ID.
- The Attestation: "We certify that the behavior-analytic services and supervision documented above are accurate, and that supervision included live observation of the RBT providing services to a client."
The RBT signs first, then you. The fine print says the record is generated by ABA Fieldwork Tracker and is not a BACB form.
Signing and keeping it
- The numbers freeze when the RBT signs.
- Our monthly check informs and never blocks. Whether to sign stays your call.
- Both of you keep the signed record for as long as the BACB asks.
A reset works as for any form: Reopen a form you signed.
How do I reset my signature on a form?
Resetting your signature reopens a form. The control is on the Verification Forms page (Signed Forms in the sidebar), never on the form itself.
- Under Signed, open the row's ••• menu.
- Choose Reset my signature, then Reset in the confirm box.
The reset is recorded in the audit log.
What happens next
- The form returns to the trainee-signed state and comes back into your queue, awaiting you again.
- From there the trainee can reset it on their side, which discards it so they can sign a corrected one from their current data.
- Or, if nothing was wrong, you can sign it again as it is.
The form's numbers never change on a reset. A corrected form is a new one.
Who can reset what
- While your signature is on a form, the trainee cannot reset it. Their page tells them the form is locked and to ask you.
- A form that is still awaiting you has nothing of yours to reset. The trainee resets that one.
- After a disconnect, the forms you signed stay readable but cannot be reset.
Why isn't a trainee's form in my signing queue?
A form waits only for its responsible supervisor, the one the trainee chose when they signed. Every form has one responsible supervisor. The trainee chooses them when they sign, from everyone on their active roster, with the supervisor who has the most entries that month offered first. The responsible supervisor need not have supervised that month at all. A clinical director who coordinates the supervisors can be the one.
Only they see it
- The queue matches the email stored on the form against your verified addresses. A form that names someone else never appears in your queue, in the count, or on the Verification Forms page, even when you are one of the supervisors listed on a Multiple supervisors Final.
- The responsible supervisor alone signs it.
- You can still read the trainee's forms under Reports while viewing them.
If it should have been you
- Ask the trainee to reset the form while it is awaiting. That discards it.
- They sign again with you chosen.
If the responsible supervisor has no account or is not connected, the trainee can email them an invitation with the form waiting, or the signed PDF.
FOR EVERYONE
Account, sign-in and help
The same for every account: your profile and settings, email and password, updates, and reaching a real person.
Your account
Profile, settings, achievements, and outside the US.
Where do I edit my profile and account settings?
The account card sits at the foot of the sidebar with your initials, name and pathway, and the RBT | Fieldwork switch when you track both. Tap it for a menu with Account, Settings and Log Out. Account opens your Profile. Profile and Settings are two pages, joined by the Profile | Settings links at the top of each.
Profile
The summary card shows your role, your BACB ID and your achievements.
- Details reads your personal information, your training or credentials, your address and how you found us. Tap Edit.
- Change what you need and tap Save. If our terms changed, the page asks you to agree the next time you save.
Your email addresses are not here. They are in Settings. Achievements covers the shelf and Outside the United States the address.
Settings
Five cards, each saving in place:
- What you're tracking (trainees) holds your tracks, pathway and standard: Change what you track, your pathway or your standard.
- Who can view your account lists the supervisors with access, with Remove access and Give a supervisor access. A supervisor sees Trainees you can view instead.
- Sign-in and security holds your email addresses, Google sign-in and Change password: Change your email address, Signed up with Google, Reset your password.
- Preferences holds Light or Dark, your time zone, and Tips and reminders: Your first-week emails, and turning tips off.
- Account shows your role, when you joined and your status. Switch to supervisor (or Switch to trainee) asks you to type SWITCH. All your data stays as it is, and you can switch back anytime.
Signing out
Log Out is in the account card's menu. After an hour without activity, or 24 hours in all, you are signed out and asked to log in again.
What are achievements, and how do I earn them?
Achievements mark the steps along the way: registering, verifying your email, filling out your profile, finishing setup, logging your first hours, compliant months, adding people and places. They sit on a shelf on your Profile, in categories, each a medal on a bronze, silver or gold ring, grey until earned. The summary card counts how many you have.
Earning one
- Each is checked as you go.
- A new one opens a sheet, Achievement unlocked, with confetti, on the next page or with the save that earned it. Tap Awesome to close it.
- If a new post window or a form to sign is open, the celebration waits for it.
The shelf
Tap any medal for its sheet: when you earned it, or what it takes. An earned one can be shared to X, LinkedIn or Facebook, or copied as a link.
- Trainees have Getting started, Hour milestones, Consistency, Compliance, Supervision and Organization. Supervisors have four categories of their own.
- A Special category holds Founding Father, for accounts from the founding era. It can no longer be earned, and it stays on the shelf, locked, for everyone who did not.
Switching roles
Trainee and supervisor achievements are separate lists. Switching roles keeps what you earned, and the dates show in your time zone.
Can I use ABA Fieldwork Tracker outside the United States?
Yes. Pick your country first: on setup, on your Profile, or when you add an organization. The list starts with the United States and Canada, then every other country. The five US territories, like Puerto Rico and Guam, are chosen as United States plus the state.
The fields that change
Outside the United States, the fields change as you choose, with no reload:
- The state list becomes State / Province / Region, which you type.
- ZIP becomes an optional Postal code.
- The phone takes digits, spaces and + ( ) . - with at least seven digits, written the way it is where you live.
Switching the country on your Profile re-checks the address under the new rule.
Organizations
Organizations ask for the state, province or region where the fieldwork happened, typed when the country is not the United States. It prints on your verification forms.
Email and sign-in
Verifying, changing and adding addresses, and passwords.
How do I verify my email address?
After you create an account with a password, the Check your email page says a link is on its way, with Open Gmail and Open Outlook shortcuts.
- Open the email "Verify your email" and tap Verify email. The link works for 24 hours.
- You land on the log in page with "Email verified. Log in to set up your account."
- Sign in. Setup begins.
Not there?
- Check spam or promotions. The check page lets you send it again after 45 seconds.
- Later, on the log in page, open Didn't get the verification email?, enter your address and tap Send it again. A new link replaces the older ones, and one address gets three links an hour.
- If the address is still unconfirmed a day later, one more email, "Confirm your email to start tracking", arrives with a fresh link.
Signed up with Google?
There is nothing to verify. The account starts verified.
Until an address is verified it cannot sign in. The log in page answers as it would for a wrong password.
How do I change my email address?
Your addresses live in Settings, under Sign-in and security. All of them are equal: you sign in with any verified one, and supervisors can find you by any of them. So changing your address means adding the new one and removing the old.
Add the new address
- Tap Add an email address, type it, and tap Send link.
- Open the email "Confirm this email address" at the new address and tap Confirm address. The link works for 24 hours.
Until then the address reads Waiting for you to click the link, with Resend link beside it.
Remove the old one
- Tap Remove on the old address.
- Type it exactly to confirm, and tap Remove address.
The last verified address on an account cannot be removed, so verify the new one first. Removing an address also removes a Google sign-in bound to it.
If the address is taken
If the new address already belongs to another ABA FT account, no link comes. Sign in to that account and remove it there first.
An account holds up to five addresses.
Can I have more than one email on my account?
Yes. An account holds up to five email addresses, and none of them is the main one. Sign in with any verified address, get a password reset at any of them, and let supervisors find you and invite you by any of them. Add a personal one so you keep your account if you change jobs.
Your addresses
Settings, Sign-in and security, Email addresses lists each one with Verified or Waiting for you to click the link, and Google sign-in where Google is linked.
- Add one with Add an email address and Send link. It joins the account when you tap the link in the email, within 24 hours.
- Remove any but the last verified one.
Change your email address walks both.
Waiting addresses
A waiting address does not sign in until it is verified. Its slot frees after 24 hours if the link is never used.
Your Profile shows no address. Its foot points to Settings.
How do I reset my password?
Forgot your password? Reset it from the log in page.
- Tap Forgot password?, enter the email you sign in with, and tap Send reset link.
- If an account exists for it, the email "Reset your password" arrives. Tap Choose a new password. The link works once, for an hour.
- Set a password of 8 or more characters with an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter and a number, and tap Save new password.
- Log in with it.
Any verified address on your account works. An email "Your password was reset" follows.
Not there?
- Check spam or promotions. The page lets you send it again after 45 seconds.
- Signed up with Google? The page says there is no password to reset. Use Continue with Google on the log in page.
Change it while signed in
- Open Settings, Sign-in and security, Change password.
- Enter your current password, then the new one twice.
- Tap Update password.
Other devices are signed out when you do. This one stays.
Can I sign up and sign in with Google?
Yes. Continue with Google sits on both the log in and Create account tabs. The first time, it creates your account from your Google profile, already verified, and opens setup. After that it signs you in.
Already have a password account?
If a password account exists at that address, Continue with Google links Google sign-in to it, and a security email, "Google sign-in added", tells you. From then on either way in works.
If that password account was never verified, its password is removed at that point, and an email says so.
Add Google to your account
Signed in with a password and want Google too?
- Open Settings, Sign-in and security, Sign in with.
- Tap Add Google sign-in.
Google's address joins your account, verified, with the tag Google sign-in among your email addresses. Removing that address removes the sign-in with it. An account holds five addresses at most.
Forgot your password?
On a Google account, the reset page says there is no password to reset: use Continue with Google. A wrong password on the log in form says the same.
Why does it say email sending is paused?
This message means ABA FT's shared hourly budget for emails like invitations, signature requests and address confirmations is spent for the moment. It is not about you, and nothing of yours was counted.
It clears by itself as the hour rolls over, so try again a little later. An address you were adding is not added until you do.
Where it shows
- Adding or re-sending an email address in Settings.
- Sending a verification form to a supervisor.
Sign-up verification, password resets and the welcome emails have their own budgets and are never paused by it.
Your own limit
A different sentence means your own limit, not the shared one:
- "You have added a few addresses already" (three an hour, 10 a day).
- "You have sent a lot of invitations in the last hour" (10 an hour).
- "You have sent a few messages already", for forms (three an hour, 10 a day).
Those clear the same way, by the hour or the day.
Help and updates
The Help Center, your tickets, and news from ABA FT.
How do I contact ABA FT support?
Help Center is the last item in the sidebar. Type your question and read the answer, or browse the topics.
Contact support
Still stuck?
- Tap Contact support.
- Under What's happening?, say what you were doing and what happened. As you type, answers that might fit appear.
- Under What is it about?, pick a topic.
- Add a screenshot if it helps (a PNG or JPG, shrunk before sending).
- Tap Send message. The ticket opens right away. No email confirms it.
Your reply
We respond to support requests directly. The reply arrives as a plain email from one of us, with the answer in the email itself, and on the ticket in the Help Center.
Answer either way: reply to the email, or open the ticket and tap Send reply. Both land on the same ticket.
A screenshot on a ticket is removed 12 months after its last message.
Your tickets
Every conversation is listed with its topic, its last update and a status:
- Open while we owe you a reply.
- Awaiting you after we answer.
- Resolved once it is done.
A ticket awaiting you for a quiet week closes itself, with nothing emailed. A reply reopens it. After our reply the ticket asks once whether it solved it: What happens when you mark a ticket solved.
What happens when I mark a support ticket solved?
After we reply, your ticket reads Awaiting you and asks one thing: Did this solve it?
This solved it
- Tap This solved it. The ticket is marked Resolved, closed by you.
- It asks How did we do?, with one to five stars. Pick one.
- Add a few words if you like. After five stars, what you love about ABA FT, with a box for whether we may quote you by first name and role, checked by default. After fewer, what would have helped.
- Tap Send.
After a five, one more small ask appears: a review on Capterra, which opens in a new tab.
Not yet
Not yet moves you to the reply box. Write back, and the ticket stays open.
- A ticket we closed, or one that closed itself after a quiet week, asks for the stars the next time you open it.
- The ask appears once, in the app only. Nothing is emailed.
- If you still need help after a ticket is resolved, reply and it reopens.
Where do I find ABA FT updates, and how do I react?
Community, in the sidebar, is where ABA FT posts updates and news. The newest post sits at the top under Latest, earlier ones in a grid below. Every post stays to look back on.
Read and react
- Tap a card, or Read, to open a post over the page.
- Pick a reaction under the headline: Thumbs up, Love it, Woohoo or Helpful. The emoji bursts from the chip.
- Tap it again to take it back, or tap another to change it.
You can react on a card, in the opened post, or in the new-post window, without opening the post. One reaction per person per post.
Close a post with Back, the ×, Escape, or a tap outside it.
New posts
When a new post goes up, a window shows it the next time you open the app, with Read the full post, See all posts and Close.
Closing it, or opening the Community page, marks the post seen, so it does not come back.
Still stuck? A real person answers
Open a ticket and we reply within one business day, usually much faster. ABA Fieldwork Tracker is free for everyone, with no ads.