ACT! Direct Odor Imprint course! DOI (English)

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Welcome to the ACT! Detection Course, the online training for every dog trainer looking to take their detection work to the next level.

Whether you’re a beginner wanting to learn the basics of scent imprinting or an experienced professional aiming to refine your techniques, this course provides all the knowledge, structure, and inspiration you need to grow.

You’ll learn step by step how to effectively imprint odors, how to build a reliable passive indication, and how to train your dog to become a motivated, precise, and independent detection worker. With clear explanations, practical exercises, and countless videos, you’ll see exactly how to carry out each phase.

This course combines science with practice, creativity with structure, and above all: fun with results. Discover how to make your training data-driven, fair, and efficient , so you and your dog grow stronger with every session.

Welcome to the world of modern detection training. Learn, understand, and refine, step by step toward mastery.

Direct Odor Imprint Course

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The Direct Odor Imprint course

1. Welcome to ACT! Online Courses: A Journey to Mastery
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2. A quick overview
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3. The focus of this course, what you will learn
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4. Stepping out of your comfort zone!
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5. Prepare yourself for the real world
6. Clever Hans and body language
7. Clever Hans in detection
8. Do I need professional material?
9. Where and how to start?
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1. Many methods to train a detection dog
2. The Metal pipe approach
3. The Kong approach
4. Passive alert on Kong
5. The tennis ball or towel
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6. The Box approach
7. The box method
8. The Food approach
9. The Odor Pay's or Dopamine box approach
10. Pairing and overshadowing problems
11. Pairing technique in nosework training
12. The Toy or Play approach
13. Introduce play & play together
14. Play is a wonderful reinforcer for dogs
15. Test your knowledge about different imprint techniques
1. What is odor?
2. Overshadowing en pairing
3. Blocking
1. Why do we need a bridge signal?
2. What is a bridge signal?
3. Primary and secondary reinforcers
4. How do we use our bridge signals?
5. Conditioning a bridge
6. Conditioning a bridge
7. Test your bridge knowledge
1. Why this chapter?
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2. Clarifying Key Terms in Detection Training
3. Using the same language
4. Direct vs. Indirect Reinforcement in Detection Training
5. Video Indirect Reinforcement
6. The definition of double blind
7. Double blind search
8. Test your knowledge about defintions
1. What is a Odor Delivery Device?
2. Conditioning Odor Delivery Device (ODD)
3. ODDs with Human Scent and Gloves
4. Cleaning ODDs
5. How to mark ODDs?
6. There are NO ODD's in the operational world
7. ODDs and the real world
8. Test your ODD knowledge
1. Sessions and trials
2. Collecting data
3. How to use and analyze data?
4. Test your DATA knowledge
1. Searching for food pellets
2. Motivational search games
3. Motivational search games
4. The game methode
5. Playing together
6. Play is a good reinforcer
1. Why is this the Best Odor Imprint Course?
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2. Baseline DOI exercise video
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3. What sort of materials do I need?
4. Test your knowledge about the DOI method
5. Detection set MTTS
6. Target stands in detection training
7. Which target odor should I start with?
1. Clear criteria & consistency
2. The role and use of targets in detection
3. Step 1 Conditioning the target
4. Step 1 video
5. Step 2 Solving concentration problems
6. Step 2 video
7. Step 3 target on the ground -direct reinforcement
8. Step 3 video
9. Step 4 target on the ground - indirect reinforcement
10. Step 4 video
11. Step 5 introduction target odor
12. Step 5 video
13. Duration of the alert (important!)
14. Duration training hand target
15. Duration alert on ground target
16. Beware of this common mistake
17. Duration on a Kong
18. Step 6 introduction second target
19. Step 6 video with helper
20. Step 6 video alone
21. Step 7 introduce third target
22. Step 7 video 3 targets with helper
23. Step 7 video 3 targets alone
24. Step 8 Place yourself next to the start
25. Step 8 video 3 targets from start position
26. Step 9 Preparing the line up
27. Step 9 video
28. Step 10 introducing (odor) distractions
29. Step 11 Direct Odor Imprint (DOI) visual
30. Step 12 Duration and Trained Final Response
31. Step 12 video (duration)
32. How to imprint the 2e (new) odor?
33. The sky is the limit
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34. Stands of boxes, with are good!
35. DOI Final Assignment
36. DOI final assignment video
37. Test your knowledge about the step by step procedure
1. What's next?
2. Expanding your skills
1. The Indication: A critical component in detection training
2. Passive alert with indirect reinforcement
3. How do we teach a alert?
4. Different ways to teach a alert
5. Start met Cato board
6. Shaping a passive alert
7. Shaping a passive alert by using a nose target
8. Passive alert, nose target the ground
9. From target stand to ODD
10. Multiple ODDs on the ground
11. Multiple ODDs on the ground
12. there are different ways to teach a passive indication.
13. Building duration in the indication
14. Don't touch the HODD
15. Passive alert on food
16. Passive alert on food outside
17. Passive alert on food and object
18. Passive alert on food under a small can
19. Passive alert on a Kong
20. Passive alert on small object
21. When SIT is difficult
1. Introducing Odor Recognition Test (ORT) games
2. What is a FUN ORT?
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3. Fun ORT horiontal
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4. Fun ORT with changing ODDs in between two trials
5. Fun ORT with firehoses
6. Fun ORT in square
7. Do you dare to send your dog for a double blind while you are alone?
8. You can set up your ORT in many shapes and forms!
9. How to use the Multi Target Training System (MTTS)
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1. How to use this chapter ' problem solving'?
2. How to solve problems in training
3. No focusing on the target
4. Re-focus the dog on the targets
5. Cleaning your equipment and ODDs
6. Watching trainer instead of focus on target
7. Running too fast
8. Running too slow
9. False positive and false negatives
10. More duration in the alert
11. Pushing for more duration
12. Barking, licking or touching the target
13. How to handle distraction odor mistakes?
14. Test your problem solving knowledge
1. Why This Bonus Program?
2. 1 target position passive alert - 1 ODD
3. 2 target position passive alert - 1 ODD
4. 3 target positions passive alert - 1 ODD
5. 2 target positions passive alert - 2 ODD's
6. 3 target positions passive alert - 3 ODD's
7. 3 target positions- passive alert - distraction odors
8. Duration in alert on ODD's

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Direct Odor Imprint Course

The Direct Odor Imprint course

Welcome in this course!

Many different imprint methods

The magic of odor

Introducing the bridge signal

Definitions and specific language in the K9 detection world

The Odor Delivery Device

Collecting data

Motivation games

What is a Direct Odor Imprint (DOI)?

Direct Odor Imprint 'step by step'

Direct Odor Imprint complete, what’s next?

The alert

Funny detection games

Problem solving

Bonus Chapter with a Simplified DOI Protocol

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