DRE regulations require online-only students to log 45 hours of active reading time on the course homepage. An online reading timer tracks activity. Inactivity stops the reading timer
For online reading WITHOUT a reading timer, please choose a Multimedia enrollment.
There is a $17.50 fee for upgrading from an Online-only enrollment to a Multimedia enrollment.
Login to your course at firsttuesday.us/login
Your course videos, e-books, quizzes and exams are located on your student homepage
Before reviewing any course material online, the DRE requires you to acknowledge, under penalty of perjury, that you are the person enrolled in the course and you will be the only person to complete the course
You may complete your course in as little as 6 days or take up to one year. When enrolling in the 45-hour online-timed course, you must log 45 hours of reading time and may complete the course in 3 days
Take quizzes online. Quizzes are mandatory but not timed. Quizzes have no minimum passing score and your retakes are unlimited. Feedback on your quiz answers and performance appear when you complete each set of quizzes
You need to pass exams with a score of 70% or better to receive 45 hours of continuing education credit. Exams are available online by clicking on the “Take Exam” link. The exam(s) for each section become available after you take the quizzes and have met the minimum study time. You must complete the sections in numerical order
You can only test for one section within a 24-hour period. The maximum time permitted to complete an exam equals one minute per question. Exams are multiple choice and open book. Your exam grade appears on completion of each online exam
When you fail an online exam, a backup exam is immediately available. When you also fail the backup exam, the course automatically resets requiring you to again study the course materials and retake the quizzes. On completion of the quizzes and running of the study time, the exam for the course is again available
NOTE: Exam scores for the 25 Hr Consumer Protection component for package 104, 305, 405, 505, 603, 802, 901 and 1001 are combined and averaged. When your averaged exam score is not 70% or better, both Consumer Protection components reset
For students enrolled in package 203 or 702, your Consumer Protection exams are graded separately, not averaged
On passing your CE course exams, you qualify to apply to renew your license. You may renew online, or by mail. The Certificate of Completion, available through the “Certificate & Renewal” section of your online student account, contains information you need for renewal. This section also has step-by-step video instructions for renewing online, and written instructions for renewing by mail
Instructions and DRE forms are all available from your Student Homepage. You alone report your course completion to DRE using DRE application forms and information on the Certificate of Completion
Your 45-hour continuing education package is divided into 2 sections. Each section contains its own library of video, text, quizzes and exam(s).
Section 1 (VRC) contains the Video Renewal Course™ which equals 27 hours of education divided into 15 and 12 hour components. Section 2 (O-AFTER) contains the DRE mandated 18 hours. Sections need to be completed in sequential order.
On enrollment, your course materials are immediately available online. Video Renewal Course™ is an interactive video-based experience, featuring extensive video and audio content in addition to reading. The mandated 18 hours is reading-based, though includes video supplements.
You may complete your entire 45-hour course in as little as 6 days. You may test on no more than 15 credit hours of continuing education during a 24-hour period.
Quizzes are mandatory. Quizzes are not timed and there is no minimum passing score. You have unlimited quiz attempts. Feedback on your quiz performance is provided after you complete each quiz.
Quizzes for the Video Renewal Course™ occur at the end of each page. Quizzes for the mandated 18 hours occur incrementally.
Before reviewing any course material online, DRE requires you to acknowledge, under penalty of perjury, that you are the person enrolled, and you will be the only person to complete the course.
You must pass all exams with a score of 70% to receive 45 hours of continuing education credit. Exams are multiple choice and open book. The exam(s) for each section become available only after you’ve met the minimum study time and taken the quizzes for that section. You may only test on 15 hours of continuing education (one step) per 24-hour period. The maximum time allowed per exam is equal to 1 minute per question. Exams are available online by clicking on the “Take Exam” link. Exams are graded instantly upon completion.
When you fail any exam a backup exam is immediately available online. If you also fail the backup exam, the section automatically resets requiring you to repeat the study and exam process. Minimum study times for reset sections vary; two days when you fail Section 1 or 2 exams; four days when you fail both sections 1 and 2 exams; and for Section 3, you wait 3 hours per failed exam.
The scores for exams on Sections 1 and 2 are averaged together. If your averaged exam score is not 70% or better, both Sections 1 and 2 will be reset.
When you fail any exam, a backup exam is immediately available online. If you also fail the backup exam, the section automatically resets requiring you to repeat the study and exam process. For Sections 1, 2 and 3 resets, you retake the quizzes and wait the minimum study time before receiving 2 more attempts to pass the section exam.
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