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Overview
Develop the technical skills and exam strategies you need to succeed on your National Alliance of Canadian Optician Regulators (NACOR) licensing exam.
This comprehensive 3-hour course targets the key competencies you'll be tested on, focusing on critical measurement and verification skills. You'll work through five essential units that mirror the exam structure, ensuring you're ready to demonstrate your expertise under exam conditions.
You'll review dispensing eyewear fundamentals, including accurate measurements for lens ordering, frame fitting, and repairs, as well as lens finishing calculations such as box measurements, minimum blank sizes, and decentration formulas. Finally, you'll strengthen your quality control abilities through lens verification theory and extensive lensometry practice for both verification and duplication of all eyeglass lens types.
This course will help you establish the technical expertise you need to excel on the NACOR exam and begin your professional optical career.
To be eligible to take this course, you must have a SAIT Optician Diploma or equivalent certification from the College of Opticians of Alberta.
Upon successful completion of this course, you'll be able to:
- perform measurements required for ordering lenses as well as adjustments needed for frame fit and repairs
- calculate box measurements, minimum blank size and decentration for finishing lenses
- compare and calculate received glasses versus what was ordered and apply tolerance chart principles to determine whether the lenses may satisfactorily be dispensed to a patient
- apply lensometry knowledge to verification of eyeglasses lenses
- apply lensometry knowledge to duplication of eyeglasses lenses
Upcoming dates
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Registration closes seven days before the start date for on-campus, online scheduled, and blended courses, and one day before the start date for online self-paced courses.
After you've completed this course
Upon successful completion of this course, you'll be able to self-print a proof of completion document from your Continuing Education student account.
Costs
Required equipment and supplies
Students are responsible for providing their own pens, note paper or tablet, calculator if desired.
Included in the purchase of this course, SAIT will provide:
- lensometer
- lens clock
- thickness calipers
- PD rulers
- markers
- progressive centering charts
- pupilometers
- vertex distometers penlights
- seg measures
- eyeglasses and frames
- tolerance charts
- hot air blowers
- variety of adjusting tools
- ribbon
Financial support
Financial opportunities are available to help pay for your course fees. Learn more about how to reduce your education or training costs with available awards, bursaries, loans and grants including the Canada Alberta Job Grant.
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SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.
We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta.