Florida OT CEUs: 14 Live Hours & License Renewal Guide

Earn Your 14 Florida Live Hours With Weekly Webinars

Florida requires 14 of your 26 hours to come from in-person or interactive, real-time courses. It's one of the steepest live requirements in the country — and we help you meet it. We run a live webinar every week, all of them interactive and real-time, which is exactly what the Board's rule allows. Attend regularly and you can earn all 14 live hours from home.

Your next renewal deadline is February 28, 2027. We have 20 live webinar hours scheduled between now and the deadline, including the 2-hour Florida OT Laws and Rules (January 26) and Preventing Medical Errors (February 2) courses. To reach 14 live hours, plan to attend every live webinar from early December on, and don’t miss the 2-hour webinars in January and February. Starting any later than December 29 means you’ll need at least one live hour from another provider.

Your remaining 12 hours can be on-demand courses, which is Florida’s home-study limit.

OT Potential is an AOTA Approved Provider. Individual course approval is finalized shortly before each live webinar.

A new live webinar every week. All of them are included in your membership, along with our on-demand library — $99 for a full year, about $4.50 per contact hour.

Approved for Florida — and We Report Your Hours to CE Broker for You

OT Potential is an AOTA Approved Provider. The Florida Board of Occupational Therapy lists us as a Rule/Statute Approved Provider, CE Broker tracking #50-33236. You can look up our provider record any time.

Florida tracks continuing education through CE Broker, and hunting down certificates at renewal is the part nobody enjoys. When you finish one of our live webinars, we report your completion to CE Broker within 48 hours. All you have to do is enable CE Broker reporting after you take the course, and we'll take it from there.

Full OT/OTA CEU Requirements in Florida

Here are the occupational therapy continuing education requirements for coursework in Florida:

These were copied from the Florida Administrative Code, updated 2024.

64B11-5.001 Requirements for License Renewal of an Active License; Continuing Education.

Continuing education includes attendance and participation as required at approved live or interactive presentations such as workshop, seminar, conference, webinar, or in-service educational programs. It may also include participation in other approved professional activities, such as pro bono and expert witness services, or those that require a formal assessment of learning, such as formalized self-study courses and other non-interactive learning programs. An active license shall be renewed upon demonstration that the licensee has paid the renewal fee set forth in Rule 64B11-2.008, F.A.C., and has complied with the following requirements:

(1) As a condition to the renewal of an active license, an occupational therapist must complete twenty-six (26) hours of approved continuing education per biennium.

(2) As a condition to the renewal of an active license, an occupational therapy assistant must complete twenty-six (26) hours of approved continuing education per biennium.

(3) At least fourteen (14) of the required hours per biennium must be in person or from interactive, real-time courses. An interactive, real-time course may be a web-based, satellite transmitted, telephone or video conference, or online instruction program that allows or requires the licensee to interact in real time, including live chat, with the instructor during the presentation of the program or in a question and answer session upon completion of the program.

This doc goes on to describe acceptable activities. I recommend you read the rules in full.

I also want to highlight that this clarification is given specifically about live courses on this page, which highlights that live courses can still be online, but must provide realtime interaction.

Steps for Renewing Your OT License

Step 1: Look up your OT/OTA license.

To begin the process, I always double-check that my license is displaying correctly. You can look up your Florida occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant license here.

Step 2: Confirm the Florida OT continuing education requirements. 

It’s always good to double check for any updates to your licensing cycle. You can do so with the resources above. And, please reach out to me if you see any discrepancies.

Step 3: Earn your CEU hours.

Ok, now that you know your requirements, it is time to start earning those CEUs! There are of course a lot of options out there, but we hope you consider checking out the courses offered by OT Potential.

Step 4: Renew your license. 🎉

Ok, now it’s time for the big moment.

You can renew your license online.

Your Complete Florida Plan: All 26 Hours

Here's how a Florida OT or OTA covers a full renewal cycle:

We cover 22 of your 26 hours. We don't offer the medical errors or laws and rules courses — Florida requires those from a Board-approved provider, and CE Broker is the fastest way to find them.

First renewal cycle? Florida also requires 1 hour of HIV/AIDS education, which counts toward your 26. That makes it 21 hours from us and 5 from other providers.

Do OT Potential Online Courses Count as CEUs and PDUs?

Yes! You can learn more in our post: How OT Potential Helps Meet Your CEU Requirements.

Getting Started: 2 Free Online OT CEUs, Then $99 a Year

You can try OT Potential before you pay anything. The Free Trial gives you two 1-hour AOTA-approved courses, The Ethics of AI as Therapists and Pediatric Sleep and OT, with no credit card required. Both are online and on-demand, so they count toward the home-study part of your Florida hours.

When you're ready for the rest of your renewal, Club Annual is $99 for a full year. That includes the on-demand course library and weekly live webinars. Over a renewal cycle, that's 22 of your 26 Florida hours for about $4.50 per contact hour.

Prefer a shorter commitment? Club Monthly is $49 for one month.

Conclusion

Hopefully, you found this post helpful!

If you have any other questions about continuing education and your OT license renewal, please contact us!