Using MyVIT

Applications for registration must be completed online. 

Applicants who have never held VIT registration will need to first set up a MyVIT account by going to the login page and clicking 'Sign Up'. Please use an email address that you will continue to have access to.

Once your MyVIT account has been created, you can apply for registration by clicking on the ‘Apply for registration’ tile.

Need help using MyVIT? Check out our FAQs page for some helpful guides and videos on creating an account and submitting an application.

You can reset your password by selecting ‘Forgot your password?’ on the MyVIT account login page.

This will prompt you to enter your username (i.e. your email address held by VIT).

You will receive an email with a reset password link - it is important that you only click on the link once. The email may take up to 2 hours to receive - ensure you check your junk mail folder. Please note: the link will expire within 24 hours.

We recommend using the latest version of Google Chrome. Check your junk mail and add VIT to your safe sender list.

If you cannot remember your password, and do not have access to the email address you set up your account with, please contact us.

To check that your personal details, including your email address, are up to date, first login to your MyVIT account.

Click on ‘My Details’. Your full name, postal address, mobile number and email address will be listed here. To update your details, click on ‘Edit’.

To update your email address, click on ‘Change email’. Type in your new email address and then click ‘Next’.

The following steps outline how to complete your annual registration tasks.

How to complete your annual registration tasks

1. Log into your MyVIT account.
2. Click on the 'Complete annual registration tasks' tile (this will appear once your annual registration tasks are ready to be completed).
   • The initial application page outlines what tasks you need to complete, what information you’ll need to complete them and information about your registration options.
   • If you are leaving the teaching profession and don’t intend to return, you can cease your registration via the ‘Manage registration’ menu on the previous page.
3. Click ‘next’ to proceed
   • You are required to provide some information to VIT as your registration is in lieu of a Working with Children Check. You must confirm if you currently undertake, or intend to undertake, any paid or voluntary child related work other than your teaching.
4. Click ‘no’ and then click ‘next’
   • You will need to complete a series of modules for annual registration. The modules with a green ‘review’ button already have information in them and don’t need to be completed unless you wish to review the information. The modules with a blue ‘update’ button need to be completed before you can submit your application.
   • If you are due to complete your five yearly criminal record check, you are required to complete additional information relating to your name and address history and provide consent.

How to complete the proof of identity – address history module

5. Click the blue ‘update’ button
   • The module will appear if you are due to complete a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (all teachers are required to undertake this check every five years).
6. Read the screen with instructions
   • An address may be already listed. Even if this is the correct address of your current residence, more information is needed.
7. Complete your address history for the last five years, including start dates and end dates.
   • If this has been your only address for the past five years, add the start date. If it is your current address, do not complete the end date.
   • If you have lived at other addresses in the past five years, add those addresses with start dates and end dates as well.
8. Click the drop down arrow to the right and select ‘edit’ to enter your current address.
9. To indicate this is your current address, select ‘current’.
10. Click ‘next’.
    • You now have the option to update any of these address details if you need to.
11. Enter the start date (the date when you first lived at this address) in the section marked ‘from’
12. Choose the date and click ‘next’. The start date will be added to the address.
13. Click ‘add address’ to add the previous addresses
14. Because it is not where you are currently living, choose ‘previous’ and click ‘next’
15. Enter the address in the box marked ‘find address’
    • When you start to enter details, a series of possible addresses automatically appears. Simply choose the correct address.
16. Click the box marked ‘can’t find your address’ and enter your address details manually if the address you want does not appear automatically
17. Choose the ‘from’ date to enter the ‘from’ date (when you commenced living at this address) and the ‘to’ date (your last day at this address).
    • The last day at your previous address must be the same as the first day of your next address. This is important. There must be no gaps between any of your dates.
18. Click ‘next’
    • A full five years of address history will be listed, including the two addresses you have lived in during the 5 years, with no gap between the end date of your previous address, and the start date of your current address.
    • The current address should have no end date.
19. Click ‘continue’
    • The proof of identity address history module has now changed from blue ‘update’ to green ‘review’ on the annual registration tasks page. You don’t need to do anything further with this module, unless you want to review and/or change the information it contains.
    • Once you have completed your NCCHC, or if you did not need to complete this module, proceed with your remaining tasks
    • The modules you have completed so far will show a green ‘review’ button

How to complete your annual registration tasks cont.

20. Click the blue ‘update’ button to update your contact details
21. Proceed to update your details or click ‘my details are correct’
22. Click ‘next’
23. Complete ‘recency of practice’ and click ‘update’
    • You’ll be asked if you’ve maintained recency of practice by engaging in at least 20 days of teaching, educational leadership or equivalent practice since 1 October the previous year.
    • If you click no then click ‘next’ you’ll see a list of more detailed options.
    • If you click ‘none of the above’ it will inform you that you can either apply for non-practising registration or cease your registration.
24. If you’ve maintained recency of practice by engaging in at least 20 days of teaching, educational leadership or equivalent practice since 1 October the previous year, click ‘yes’ then click ‘next’.
    • You need to select what context you completed your practice in. It could be more than one (hold down Control and select the options)
25. Select the time fraction (press control and click to select more than one)
26. Select an option which best describes your current employment, then click ‘next’.
27. Click ‘update’ to complete the professional learning module
    • You are asked if you have completed at least 20 hours of professional development that references the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers since 1 October the previous year.
    • If you click no, then click ‘next’, again your options will be to apply for non-practising registration or cease your registration.
    • If you have completed at least 20 hours of professional development that references the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers since 1 October the previous year, choose yes, then click ‘next’.
28. Indicate the professional development activities you have undertaken in the past 12 months that have had the most impact on teaching and learning, by selecting the learning area and type.
    • Hold Control and click if you want to select more than one, then click ‘next’.
29. Estimate the level of positive impact your professional learning has had on your knowledge and on educational outcomes in the last 12 months. Then click ‘next’.
30. Confirm if you have made changes to your teaching practice as a result of the professional learning you have undertaken in the last 12 months.
    • Select more than one by holding Control and then clicking. Then click ‘next’
31. Click ‘update’ to complete the suitability module
    • Answer every question with a yes or no
    • If you click yes you may be asked to answer additional questions or provide further information with the option of uploading evidence to support your answer.
    • Now you have completed all the modules they will all display a green ‘review’ button. You can go back in and edit the information you have entered if required.
32. Click ‘submit’ if the information you have provided is correct
33. Click ‘save’ and come back to it later.
34. Click ‘submit’ to make a series of declarations and acknowledgements about the information you have provided.
35. Click ‘next’.
36. Fill in your details then click ‘make payment’ to provide payment
    • The components of the fee are displayed
    • You can only use Visa or Mastercard and payment must be made in order to proceed.
37. Once payment has been made you can click to download or print a copy of the receipt, and then click ‘finish’.
38. Your application has been submitted.
    • You can log into your MyVIT account and view the status of your application at any time. The VIT will assess your application and may request additional information. Please note – submission of this application does not mean that your registration has been approved.
    • The VIT will advise you of the outcome. You are not required to do anything further at this stage.
39. To return to the home page of your MyVIT account, click ‘home’ and click ‘view applications’ to view the status of your application.
    • If you require a copy of your receipt at any time you can download one from the ‘View my applications’ tile.

The following video explains how to complete the proof of identity – address history module.

Video transcript: How to complete the proof of identity – address history module

The following video explains how to apply for registration as a graduate.

Video transcript: How to apply for registration if you're a graduate

The following video explains how to apply for permission to teach.

Video transcript: How to apply for permission to teach

The following steps outline how to apply for a further grant of provisional registration through your MyVIT account. Note: the application will only become available in your MyVIT account 3 months before your provisional registration is due to expire.

Important information:

• Provisional registration is not an enduring form of teacher registration. There is no provision in the Education and Training Reform Act 2006 to renew provisional registration. All applications are assessed on individual merits.
• If you are granted a further period of provisional registration and you do not achieve the Proficient teacher level of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) within this grant, VIT may not approve a further application.

Applying for a further grant of provisional registration

The application will only become available in your MyVIT account 3 months before your provisional registration is due to expire.

1. Log in to your MyVIT account. Your username is the email address listed on VIT’s system. If you’ve forgotten your password, you’ll need to create a new password by clicking on 'Forgot your password?"
2. Click ‘apply for provisional registration’
3. Read the information and tick the box
4. Click ‘Save’

Step 1: Verify your contact details

4. Click ‘Update’
5. Check that your details are correct, and if necessary, click ‘Update my details’
6. Edit if needed
7. If you change your name, you’ll need to fill in the form that appears
8. Click ‘Save’ then return to your contact details page
9. Click ‘My details are correct’
10. Then click ‘Next’

Step 2: Reasons for application

11. Click ‘Update’
12. Tick the boxes that are relevant to you
13. Click ‘Next’

Step 3: Acknowledgement

14. Click ‘Update’
15. Read the acknowledgement explaining that provisional registration is not an enduring form of registration
16. Tick that you understand, then click ‘Next’

Step 4: Declarations

17. Click ‘Update’
18. Make any declarations about your suitability to teach (if you have anything to declare you’ll be required to submit further evidence for assessment)
19. If you answer ‘No’ to each of the declarations, then click ‘Next’

Step 5: Final declaration

20. Click ‘Update’
21. Tick the boxes, then click ‘Next’
22. Click ‘Submit’
23. Click to confirm
24. Click to finish

VIT will notify you of your application outcome. If you log out of the process before finishing, you’ll need to log back in to your MyVIT account.

The following video explains how to apply for a further grant of provisional registration through your MyVIT account.

Video transcript: How to apply for a further grant of provisional registration

The following video explains how to apply for full registration through your MyVIT account.

Video transcript: How to apply for full registration

The following video explains how to apply for registration if you’re currently registered in another state in Australia or New Zealand.

Video transcript: How to apply for registration through mutual recognition

The following video explains how to to apply for registration if you've previously held full registration in Australia or New Zealand in the past 5 years.

Video transcript: How to apply for immediate full registration

The following video explains how to apply for both teacher and early childhood teacher (dual) registration.

Video transcript: How to apply for both teacher and early childhood teacher (dual) registration

The following video explains how to complete the qualifications section when applying for registration.

Video transcript: How to complete the qualifications section of an application for registration

During the annual registration period (mid-August to 31 December) fully registered teachers can only apply for non-practising as part of their annual registration tasks.