ArbiterSports is the leading software for the contracting of contest officials. ArbiterSports has several software programs designed for officiating assigners, schools, and officials to automate the contracting of opponents and officials.
ArbiterOne is the software used by officiating assigners to contract officials for contests. Assigners invite officials to join their assigning group. Once the official accepts this electronic invitation, the official can be assigned to contests. Officials must accept group invitations from assigners in order to receive officiating assignments.
ArbiterSports allows officials and assigners to access all games in one location. Assigners that contract officials for events other than events for OHSAA member schools had to use different methods to assign officials. In addition, officials then had several places in which to find their assignments and coordinate calendars. ArbiterSports allows any level of contest to be assigned and the official has just one place to look. In addition, the Arbiter has enhanced tools for scheduling that our member schools want and need that were not available in myOHSAA.
Yes, there is no other scheduling software recognized by OHSAA.
1 – Students must be marked as “Passed” in myOHSAA by the instructor.
2 – Upon being marked “Passed” by the instructor, they will receive an OHSAA permit number the next business day.
NOTE: A student will not receive an OHSAA permit number unless they have saved their required concussion training information to their myOHSAA profile. You should review this process in class with your students to ensure this doesn’t become a delay in their process of becoming an active official.
3 – Once a student receives a permit number, they become a new, active OHSAA official and may begin officiating.
4 – New officials cannot create their own Arbiter profile. The OHSAA creates the profile for a new official using the email address on their profile in myOHSAA.
5 – Students need to add
[email protected] to their address book in their email account.
NOTE: This is not a requirement but will help prevent a potential delay in their process of becoming an active official in Arbiter.
6 – The OHSAA creates new official profiles twice a week (Wednesday and Friday) during the peak season of courses, and once a week during off-peak season for courses.
NOTE: Officials will have their profile created on the next upload day after they receive their permit number. For example, if an official receives their permit number on a Friday morning they will be added on the following Wednesday.
7 – Once a profile has been created for the new official, they will be sent the “Welcome Email” from Arbiter. This is why it is critical for new officials to add
[email protected] to their address book.
8 – Before an assigner or school can locate the new official in Arbiter and assign them to games, the official must follow the instructions in the Welcome Email, log into their profile for the first time, andaccept the OHSAA ArbiterOne group invitation (group 105755).
Yes, officials will still use myOHSAA to:
- Maintain their contact information on their profiles
- Renew their OHSAA Officiating Permit
- Maintain their Concussion Certification
- Submit the OHSAA Tournament Questionnaire
- Check their state and local rules meeting attendance credits
- Register for officiating classes
- Access the school and officials directories
Login credentials for Arbiter accounts uses an email address as the user name. Passwords were created by ArbiterSports and can be retrieved through the Forgot Password link on the ArbiterSports.com login screen. (https://www1.arbitersports.com/Shared/SignIn/Signin.aspx).
NOTE: The OHSAA does not have access to your ArbiterSports login credentials.
All OHSAA licensed officials have an Arbiter account. Although every official has an account, they have to be invited by an assigner to the assigning group in order to receive game assignments. If you aren’t a part of an assigning group, contact an assigner and ask to be added to their group. Officials may also receive assignment directly from schools through the "AD Assiged" ArbiterOne group.
Officials access their account login credentials by being invited to an assigning group. The OHSAA has invited all OHSAA licensed officials to join their group #105755. You can access your ArbiterSports account anytime you have an internet connection at home, in the office, or on your phone. You can also purchase ArbiterMobile, Arbiter's new mobile app, for your phone so that you have access to your schedule on the go.
ArbiterSports Technical Support is available from 8 am – 9 pm Monday through Thursday, 8 am – 7 pm on Friday, and 10 am – 4 pm on Saturday. These times are Eastern Time.
No, all OHSAA licensed officials already have an account created for them. Officials access their account login credentials by being invited to an assigning group. The OHSAA has invited all OHSAA licensed officials to join the OHSAA group #105755. The invitation is an email sent by Arbiter system that provides the official with their login credentials.
OHSAA group #105755 is the "super" group for ArbiterSports in Ohio. This group gives the assigners the active officials to pick from, and an official will receive their OHSAA Regional and State Tournament assignments from this group.
An ArbiterSports account is a group of officials, under 1 or more assignors, that receive game assignments to go and work athletic events.
Each official can be a part of multiple ArbiterOne groups. This will depend on how many assigners each official works for. Each OHSAA certified assigner has an ArbiterOne group and they will invite officials to their groups in order for officials to be issued contracts.
Officials contracts are sent electronically. Once you accept a game contract, an email will be sent to you for your records.
Officials will get an email when they have been sent a new contest assignment. At that point, the official can login either on a computer, tablet, or on their phone to accept or decline that assignment.
All officials will get an email reminder for their events if the assigner has specified that the officials should get that emailed to them. Assigners can even decide how many days before the event takes place that those emails go out.
If there is a change to an event, the official is emailed letting them know of the change.
No. Each school will decide how they will pay officials. Some school districts will use ArbiterPay to pay officials but others may not.
Each school will decide how they will pay officials. Some school districts will use ArbiterPay to pay officials but others may not. The OHSAA will be paying all tournament officials for all sports through ArbiterPay. Currently only some regional and state officials are paid using ArbiterPay. Full implementation of ArbiterPay for sectional and district officials will occur over the next 18 months.
ArbiterSports offers several methods of payment. The four payments offered are electronic transfer of payment initiated by the official (free to officials), an automatic electronic transfer of funds to your bank account (fee associated), ArbiterPay debit card (fee associated), and a check sent to mailing address (fee associated). To see the fees associated with the transferring of funds from ArbiterPay, please view the link below. https://arbiterpay.com/pricing.html
Arbiter offers payment through Arbiter Debit Card (Mastercard) or through a paper check. However these methods have a service fee that is charged to the official.
Currently only some sport officials are paid using ArbiterPay for regional and state tournaments only. Full implementation of ArbiterPay for all levels of OHSAA tournaments will occur over the next 18 months.