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Traffic school: Anyone take the class...online?

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isamu

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Gotta attend traffic school before next week. The notice tells me I have the option to take the class online. Have any of you tried this?

How easy or hard is the online class? Approxiamately how long is does it take? Would you recommend it or just go the real school?
 

Tarazet

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You have to ATTEND it before next week? I don't think you have a choice, because the traffic schools are probably booked months in advance. Do it online.
 

isamu

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sonarrat said:
You have to ATTEND it before next week? I don't think you have a choice, because the traffic schools are probably booked months in advance. Do it online.

Well actually it's due on the 15th of Feb, so I meant I'd like to get it done sometime thi or next week. Still got a bit of time.

Also, they're not booked months in advance.....there's one right down the street from me that is welcomed to walk right on in every Tuesday or Thursday. I was gonna go tonight, but I don't really feel like sitting in there for four hours over the course of two days, if I can do it online and stay in the comfort of my own home.
 

Tarazet

Member
Well, in that case:

1) It will probably take longer to do it online.
2) It won't save you money.
3) You might have to actually pass a quiz. You probably won't at a live traffic school.
 

pwn3d

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I did it about a year ago - I didn't find it to be difficult, but you do have to go and take a half hour quiz afterwards. Usually they have them in local high schools or community colleges. The quiz isn't hard at all, though, the questions are just like the online course. It also sounds like the online course is longer - I did it over about two weeks but I'd guess in total it took about 6 to 8 hours.
 

draven

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I did it a few months ago over a bs ticket.

Decided to give the most popular one a try, and had to spend a specific amount of time on each section. Supposedly it should've give you quizzes throughout each time period (an hour or so or something) to make sure you're still there. The quizzes are dumb stuff (during registration it asked me 20 questions: what's my home town, favorite beach, favorite food, favorite day of the week, favorite color). Still, the quiz questions didn't come out for me cause I was using firefox and they were stupid in writing their code.

Regarding the final test, it was long and difficult. Thankfully, I archived every chapter from the driving material (copied and pasted it into a word document) which made answering the test easy (searched the text for each question when I didn't remember the default speed limit on highways, which color meant "caution", the average cost to the government in car accidents each year, etc.). Still, pretty convenient cause I did one module at one time, and saved my progress, and came back to the next module a few days later.

It's time consuming but flexible, and tricky if you don't "archive". Still, the one other traffic school I attended was in person and the instructor threw out the quiz and had us all shoot the shit for a few hours.

They each have their pros and cons.
 

isamu

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pwn3d said:
I did it about a year ago - I didn't find it to be difficult, but you do have to go and take a half hour quiz afterwards. Usually they have them in local high schools or community colleges. The quiz isn't hard at all, though, the questions are just like the online course. It also sounds like the online course is longer - I did it over about two weeks but I'd guess in total it took about 6 to 8 hours.

pwned....I'm confused by your post....are you saying that with the online course, I will still have to go out and physically drive to a place to take the quiz and turn it in? Or are you referrignt to something else?

According to a poster on another forum, there quiz you take at the end is online, and the whole session is on a timer.
 

draven

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isamu said:
pwned....I'm confused by your post....are you saying that with the online course, I will still have to go out and physically drive to a place to take the quiz and turn it in? Or are you referrignt to something else?

According to a poster on another forum, there quiz you take at the end is online, and the whole session is on a timer.

I did mine online in my pajamas, and the whole class was broken up into sections that had a timer since it made you spend a certain amount of time on each section.

Hell, you could've registered, started one of the modules now, and let the timer tick while posting on message boards :|
 

isamu

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draven said:
I did it a few months ago over a bs ticket.

Decided to give the most popular one a try, and had to spend a specific amount of time on each section. Supposedly it should've give you quizzes throughout each time period (an hour or so or something) to make sure you're still there. The quizzes are dumb stuff (during registration it asked me 20 questions: what's my home town, favorite beach, favorite food, favorite day of the week, favorite color). Still, the quiz questions didn't come out for me cause I was using firefox and they were stupid in writing their code.

Regarding the final test, it was long and difficult. Thankfully, I archived every chapter from the driving material (copied and pasted it into a word document) which made answering the test easy (searched the text for each question when I didn't remember the default speed limit on highways, which color meant "caution", the average cost to the government in car accidents each year, etc.). Still, pretty convenient cause I did one module at one time, and saved my progress, and came back to the next module a few days later.

It's time consuming but flexible, and tricky if you don't "archive". Still, the one other traffic school I attended was in person and the instructor threw out the quiz and had us all shoot the shit for a few hours.

They each have their pros and cons.


Heh, I had the copy and paste thing in mine as well :D

But someone said the text isn't copy-able???

1)So you basically have to be on your PC for 8 hours right?

2)Do they give the answers to the test questions ahead of time in step by step fashion?

I don't mind the 8 hours as long as I can multitask :D
 

isamu

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Cyan said:
I'm doing it right now. The one I'm doing is easy and reasonably fast. The only problem is I have to physically go in and take a test when I'm done. I think that's mandatory for California, unless it's just my county. Sucks, anyway. Last time I did traffic school online (about five years ago), I didn't have to go anywhere. Finished the whole thing in a couple hours.

Serious? I'm Los Angeles. I hope that's not the case. Can anyone else in Los Angeles verify this? Fuck.
 

draven

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isamu said:
Heh, I had the copy and paste thing in mine as well :D

But someone said the text isn't copy-able???

1)So you basically have to be on your PC for 8 hours right?

2)Do they give the answers to the test questions ahead of time in step by step fashion?

I don't mind the 8 hours as long as I can multitask :D


1) Yeah, but not in a row. You can multitask: watch tv, go on other web sites, etc.

2) The answers were not clear-cut, so I did have to use the search function.

I had no problem copying the text. Even if they do disable mouse clicks, you can still get around it by other ways...

THat would suck about going in to take the test, but I do remember saying that you might have to do that in certain states. I live in Florida, btw.
 

isamu

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Cyan said:
Can you choose between multiple websites for the class? If so, you're probably fine. If not, you may be stuck. The one I have to use is trafficschoolonline.com .

It appears so. There's a whole list of links I can choose to go to. I am currently checking out this one:

http://www.anytimetrafficschool.com/

Seems pretty simplistic, and they dont mention anything about having to go anywhere afterwards.

Oh I forgot to ask you guys.....

How many chances do you get to retake the test if you happen to fail?
 

pwn3d

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isamu said:
pwned....I'm confused by your post....are you saying that with the online course, I will still have to go out and physically drive to a place to take the quiz and turn it in? Or are you referrignt to something else?

According to a poster on another forum, there quiz you take at the end is online, and the whole session is on a timer.

Sorry for the confusion - when I did it I had to physically drive somewhere and take a test with a bunch of other people. The course had a series of quizes with a longer one at the end, but after that I had to book a time and place to take a physical test. I'm in the bay area, it may be different in other areas.
 

fart

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i did this last year, so the laws may have changed (alameda county, by the way). it's easy, cheap, and only takes an hour or so. The site I used allowed you to take the test as many times as you wanted, and you could do it online. the certificate is sent to the courthouse automagically, as well. overall it was pretty hassle-free way to pay my driving taxes.
 

isamu

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fart said:
i did this last year, so the laws may have changed (alameda county, by the way). it's easy, cheap, and only takes an hour or so. The site I used allowed you to take the test as many times as you wanted, and you could do it online. the certificate is sent to the courthouse automagically, as well. overall it was pretty hassle-free way to pay my driving taxes.

fart, I would be extremely greatful if you could provide a link to the specific online class you took? Thanks.
 

Lil' Dice

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isamu said:
It appears so. There's a whole list of links I can choose to go to. I am currently checking out this one:

http://www.anytimetrafficschool.com/

Seems pretty simplistic, and they dont mention anything about having to go anywhere afterwards.

Oh I forgot to ask you guys.....

How many chances do you get to retake the test if you happen to fail?

Let me know where you take your class, i have to take one by the 24th. I'm also in LA, and a co-worker did hi while at work, in less than 6 hours, while multi-tasking.
 

Defensor

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I took one of these online back 2 years ago(my first ticket, arg!). I forget the site where I took the test but they let you take the final test as many times as you want before you finally passed. I say taking this online was better than going to a class anyday.
 

bjork

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:skips replies:

The one I did was "pass or you don't pay", so I just took the quiz while watching TV. If I failed, I retook it, and I think it was attempt five when I finally got it.

Yes, I should be removed from the So Cal roadways. TRY AND CATCH ME
 

isamu

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appreciated fart. I'll look into them.
 

isamu

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bjork said:
:skips replies:

The one I did was "pass or you don't pay", so I just took the quiz while watching TV. If I failed, I retook it, and I think it was attempt five when I finally got it.

Yes, I should be removed from the So Cal roadways. TRY AND CATCH ME

bjork do you remember which online school you took? Link
 

bjork

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isamu said:
bjork do you remember which online school you took? Link

That was 2001, and unfortunately even last week is a blur. I just know they had the a-okay to clear So Cal tickets.
 

isamu

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fart said:
i did this last year, so the laws may have changed (alameda county, by the way). it's easy, cheap, and only takes an hour or so. The site I used allowed you to take the test as many times as you wanted, and you could do it online. the certificate is sent to the courthouse automagically, as well. overall it was pretty hassle-free way to pay my driving taxes.

I want to give a humble thank you to fart for hooking me up with the idrivesafety school. I received a copy of my certificate in the mail yesterday and the real one was sent to the court house.

I scored a 94% on the test, missing only 3 answers. Man....some of those questions were absurdly easy. To the point of just down right insulting. The site was very easy to navigate and even copy and pasting was not a problem. Had the course and test done over a period of about 4 days but that's because I spent only like an hour doing it each day :lol

Anyway I owe you one fart. :)
 
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