The Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE) Basic Online Literacy Instruction (OLI) Certification is open to GSOLE members and is designed to help online literacy instructors, tutors, and writing program administrators learn foundational principles, theories, and practices of teaching and tutoring writing online and apply those to the contexts in which they work or anticipate working. The certification consists of two courses that span an academic year. Both courses guide participants, who come to the experience with various levels of online teaching and/or tutoring experience, toward meeting the pedagogical and curricular standards established by experts of online literacy education as articulated by GSOLE. Participants experience both courses within a learning pod, made up of one instructor-mentor and up to five participants. This article examines the course and its effectiveness for GSOLE's members.