Mental Health Awareness E-Learning Module

This module is aimed at individuals within Physical Activity and Sport, including club professionals, coaches, leaders, officials and volunteers, with the aim of building confidence and awareness of common mental health issues, to ensure our physical activity environments are more inclusive.

We are excited to share with you our newly updated Physical Activity and Sport e-learning course ‘Introduction to mental health awareness for physical activity and sport’ which is housed on the Actify Platform in line with Scottish Government and Sport Scotland usage.

To access this, please click here and follow the instructions below.

If you already HAVE an Actify account:
• Login, and the first time you are accessing the course, you will see a pop-up message on the screen saying: “Welcome! You have been added to the SAMH Hub where you can explore all the content on the main page. You can also find a list of assigned eLearning courses and their deadlines (if applicable) under the eLearning tab in your Profile page”.
• Click ‘PROFILE’ then ‘E-LEARNING’ and you should see the ‘Introduction to Mental Health Awareness for physical activity and sports’ course ready for you to access. (If it’s not there, try refreshing the page).
• If you wish to access the course again or didn’t finish it the first time, login to Actify, go to your ‘profile’, then again click ‘e-learning’. You should be able to go back into the course where you left it last time.

If you DO NOT HAVE an Actify account:
• Click the link above which will take you to Actify and ask you to set up an account.
• Once an account has been created, you will see this pop-up message on the Actify system: “Welcome! You have been added to the SAMH Hub where you can explore all the content. You can find a list of all your assigned eLearning Courses and their deadlines (if applicable) under the eLearning tab in your Profile page.”
• Click as above and you should see the ‘Introduction to Mental Health Awareness for physical activity and sports’ course ready for you to access. (If it’s not there, try refreshing the page).
• If you wish to access the course again or didn’t finish it the first time, login to Actify, go to your ‘profile’, then again click ‘e-learning’. You should be able to go back into the course where you were last time.

The course should take about an hour, but you can stop and start, and the platform will save what you have already done.

If you are having any issues viewing or accessing the eLearning Course, please contact routemapsamh@samh.org.uk or email support@actify.org.uk

You can also find more information in the Actify Help Hub: www.actify.org.uk/help

We hope you love the new style e-learning course and are excited to receive your feedback.