Locating your Education Number in Workday and completing your

Locating your Education Number in Workday

and completing your application for a

commission

Please note: you will not be able to access your education number until you have

successfully completed the notary training course.

Navigate

1. Sign into Workday. Search for and select LRN | SOS Notary Course Completion.

Select

2. Click the drop-down arrow (A) then select, View Details (B).

If you see the screen below instead of the previous screen, enter your name in the Learner

blank and click Return.

You will see your name; click the box next to it. If your name appears more than once, click

on the one that has “(E)” after it. Your name will appear in the Learner blank. Then click OK.

Locate

3. Locate and write down your education number.

Go the notary page for accessing the test: https://secure.sos.state.or.us/notary/extrnl/home

Select Take the exam and apply (training completed):

Select the appropriate provider:

‘Secretary of State tutorial’ (for self-paced online training or in-person training)

‘Secretary of State webinar’ (for instructor-led webinar)

Enter your education number (for state employees, use your OR number).

You will be taken to a screen where you can verify that you meet the requirements to become a notary in the state of

Oregon. When you have completed this form, you will be taken to the online application.

Complete the application. You will be taken to the test.

When you have passed the test, you will see a screen that indicates you passed and provides your score (remember to

take a screenshot of this screen in case you experience technical difficulties with submitting your results and moving

on!).

What happens next is that you will receive an email from the Secretary of State’s office with your oath of office

attached. You will fill that out, sign it, have it notarized, and return it to the Secretary of State’s office with a $40

application fee. You can pay with a check or money order made out to the Secretary of State, or by fax and credit card

using this cover sheet: https://sos.oregon.gov/business/Documents/fax/credit-card-fax-cover-sheet.pdf

If you fax the application and payment information, be sure to use the number for notary, and fax the materials before 4

pm, as the machine is not monitored after 5 pm.

Then you will receive an email from the Secretary of State’s office with two certificates attached: one is your official

commission certificate, and the other is your authorization certificate. They will provide you with your commission

number and your commission expiration date.

Then you can order your stamp and journal. You will need to provide the vendor with your commission number and the

expiration date, so that these can be put on your stamp.

There are tons of vendors out there from whom you can order the stamp and journal—just Google. If this makes you

nervous, you can purchase them from one of the national notary organizations:

National Notary Association: https://www.nationalnotary.org/oregon/supplies

American Society of Notaries: https://www.asnnotary.org/?form=supplies

When your stamp and journal arrive, you are ready to begin notarizing.

Congratulations!