No, there is no automatic calculation for speaker credit. Marking someone as a speaker only allows you to give them more credit than the course was approved for. The provider must calculate the number of hours the speaker should receive based on the number of pages provided as handouts and enter those hours for the speaker. To appropriately credit a speaker, check the instructor box when submitting attendance AND enter the total number of hours the speaker should receive.

Speakers with five or more pages of handouts receive four times the number of hours they spoke. Speakers with four or fewer pages of handouts (including those with no handouts) receive two times the number of hours they spoke. If they present the same CLE at a later date, they receive half as much credit as they did for the original presentation. See Tenn. Sup. Ct. R. 21 § 4.03(a).

Handouts include textual materials. Copies of PowerPoint presentation slides will be calculated as handout materials on a per-word basis. One page of materials is equivalent to 340 words.

For example, if a presenter speaks for 2 hours and has no handouts, they are eligible for four hours of CLE credit. If a presenter has five pages of handouts, they receive eight hours of CLE credit.

PLEASE NOTE: Courses should be accredited only for the actual number of hours the course runs.