Teacher Registration (VIC – VIT)
Teachers in Victoria must be registered with the VIT — the Victorian Institute of Teaching. Oho confirms a VIT registration against the official register.
Who needs it
Anyone teaching in a Victorian school or setting that requires VIT registration. A person may hold teacher registrations in more than one state at the same time, and Oho tracks each state's registration separately — so a teacher moving interstate needs the new state's registration recorded, not the old one edited.
What Oho needs
The VIT registration number, plus the teacher's first name and surname. A middle name and date of birth are optional and can help disambiguate a common name.
1234567 — digits only, up to ten of them. Spaces are ignored.
Before you start
Nothing. The VIT register is public, so there's no login or API key to provide, and there's no employer linkage recorded against a teacher registration.
How Oho verifies it
Oho queries the VIT register and returns a result in under 5 seconds. Once verified, Oho re-checks it on the schedule you set in the Verification Sources tab.
Reading the result
Every check resolves to one of these outcomes:
| Status (as shown in the app) | Colour | What it means | API value |
|---|---|---|---|
| May engage | Green | Valid and current — the person is cleared for the work. | MAY_ENGAGE |
| May not engage | Red | Not valid — expired, suspended, not found, or a match on a ban register. | MAY_NOT_ENGAGE |
| Under review | Yellow | Cleared, but worth a closer look — for example a condition on the clearance, a possible match, or an expiry coming up. | REVIEW_REQUIRED |
| In progress | Grey | Still being checked. | IN_PROGRESS |
| Error | Grey | The source couldn't be reached; Oho will try again. | ERROR |
When it doesn't verify
| What you see | What it means | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| May not engage — no matching record | The number or the teacher's name doesn't match the register | Check the number is digits only, then check the name as the register holds it |
| May not engage after a name change | The register may still hold the previous surname | Update the worker's name to match the register and re-run |
| May not engage — not current | Registration lapsed, cancelled or suspended | Not a data problem. The teacher needs to resolve it with VIT |
| Under review | The register returned a condition, or details that don't line up cleanly | Open the check and read it before relying on the registration |
| A teacher registered interstate reads red | The wrong state's register is being checked | Record the registration against the state that issued it |
| Error | The register was unreachable | Nothing. Oho retries on the next run |
Renewals & monitoring
Renewals flow through automatically — the registration number doesn't change on renewal, so nothing needs re-entering.
The register returns the registration's expiry date with each check, and Oho flags one falling due within 90 days — a wider warning than the usual 30, because a teacher registration renewal is not a same-week job.
Between renewals, the scheduled re-check is what catches a registration that lapses, is suspended or is cancelled mid-term — the register's own status changes, and Oho picks it up.
Because there's no employer linkage, nothing pushes a change to you: monitoring here is Oho's scheduled re-checks alone. The register is public and fast, so a daily cadence is comfortable.