The pricing for cases can be seen on the Cases page. All prices are in USD. If three or more cases are purchased, you will receive a discount as noted on checkout.
Yes, we always have at least one CPD/COPE approved case that you can complete for free and earn CPD/COPE-approved CE credit. Check out the “Cases” tab to see which ones are available for free. You must register first in order to take a case.
Once you’ve passed the quiz portion of a case, you can download your certificate immediately, or you can download it any time in from your Account Dashboard. Note: if you require your license number on the printed certificates, you may enter it in the PDF by clicking on the license field and typing it in. When you print your certificate, it will display right where you typed it.
All Optocase cases are approved by The Council on Optometric Practitioner Education (COPE) for a certain number of hours of credit as listed. Note that COPE was created by Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry (ARBO) to accredit continuing education on behalf of optometric licensing boards.
Because licensing requirements are different in each country and in each state/province, you will need to check with your licensing body to verify how online, COPE-approved online CE credits apply to your licensing situation.
For the United States, some requirements can be seen here: www.arbo.org/ce_req.php
All COPE-certified continuing education courses have a period of validity. In the case of online learning courses, typically 3 years.
When a case expires it will be temporarily inaccessible while it undergoes a content review, update, and subsequent re-certification. Once re-certified, the course will be available again.
If you have purchased a case and do not complete the quiz portion before the expiry, you will be unable to complete the course until the update is complete. Once updated, you will gain access to the revised version. If you are not satisfied, please contact us to discuss a refund or a substitution.
Optocase can send your course completion information to the OE Tracker on your behalf. To enable this please visit your account's Profile page, enter you OE Tracker number, and check the box explicitly granting us permission to send your data to ARBO. We’ll send the following to the OE Tracker:
We submit this data on a bi-weekly basis, and it can take a number of days for your information to appear within the OE Tracker. If you have a deadline approaching consider submitting your completion information directly to the OE Tracker. For information on sending your course information to the OE Tracker, please visit the ARBO organization’s website for the OE Tracker system at url: www.arbo.org/oetracker
All payments on Optocase.com are currently processed through Stripe.
Your sensitive card details are never sent to, nor stored on, Optocase.com servers. When you make a purchase your card information is sent direct from your web browser to our payment processor Stripe, so that we never have access to your sensitive card data.
If you opt to save your billing information for easier checkout, or purchase a subscription, your sensitive card information is only stored with the payment processor, and not on Optocase.com infrastructure.
At this time we accept the following credit and debit cards.
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An archive of past OCT tips, with additional video commentary is now available through our OCT Academy program. More information on this program appears here, and in the OCT Academy FAQ items below.
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The back catalog of OCT Tips with additional video commentary is available through our OCT Academy subscription. More information on this program appears here, and in the OCT Academy FAQ items below.
A 14-day trial is available for the Expert plan.
Billing of your subscription to the OCT Academy will begin shortly after your trial ends. We’ll send you a reminder approximately seven days before your trial ends, and billing begins.
During your trial period you can disable billing to prevent your trial from converting into a paid subscription. Visit your your account’s billing page, and choose the Disable Billing option. This will ensure that you will not be billed at the end of your trial.
Users can receive a trial once every 180 days.
Most subscriptions are initially configured to auto-renew at the end of their billing cycle. You’ll receive one or more email notifications prior to the renewal occurring. Users can control their subscription’s auto-renewal setting from their account billing page.
Our general refund policy is outlined below. However, Optocase reserves the right to review refund requests on a case-by-case basis, and in its sole discretion, grant or deny the request.
