You need to accept that you are going to driving school for cheaper insurance and if you do learn something, that's a bonus, but don't expect any driving school to value your time and not condescend to you and treat you like a child. Most of the quiz questions are something like "You are at a party and you have had a few drinks. What should you do?" a) not drive b) give your keys to someone sober c) stay overnight d) all of the above. Don't expect to learn anything other than maybe consequences for actions you never would have taken to begin with. This is pure racketeering but honestly the Ontario government and insurance companies is more to blame than driving schools. They are just taking advantage of the corruption in the government and auto-insurance industry.
I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH, DO NOT BUY THIS COURSE, THE 5-STAR REVIEWS ARE BOTTED.
You know when you see a terrible driver on the highway and think, "How is this person allowed to drive?" I took this course and thought to myself, "Ah. I get it now."
This is, without a doubt, the worst online course I have ever taken. I got more out of my online music class during the pandemic, in which I only ever picked up my instrument of choice twice. Everything is based on excruciatingly long timers, they use outdated and trivial information in tests, and their content is structured like a 300 word essay being stretched out to the required 1000 word count. This is not 30 hours, but nine months of my life that I will never get back.
Quizzes and Tests
Despite getting a 94.29% on the final exam, I can confidently say that I have learned absolutely nothing about driving, other than useless trivia such as how motorcyclists are "slightly less than three times as likely to get hurt in a collision" than drivers. The quizzes and tests are so useless that during the second half of the course, I covered the top half of my screen. Despite not being able to see the actual question, I was able to get over 80% on every single quiz from just reading the multiple choice answers. In every single question where "all of the above" was an option, the answer was all of the above.
The Actual Lessons
The assessments were bad enough, but at least somewhat engaging given it needed *some* user input every 30 seconds or so. The actual lessons on the other hand, are far worse. They bring the engagement of the class from brain-dead to straight up dead. Every lesson is just a text-to-speech voice reading a slideshow extremely slowly, and the slides cannot be skipped if you have the audacity to read ahead because of the excruciatingly long timers attached to everything. Even on quizzes you have to wait for the tts voice to finish reading the question and all options out loud before they let you make a choice. As for the actual content in the lessons, There is almost nothing of value. The first couple lessons are fine because they teach actual driving skills, but you can easily tell the exact point that the developers realised they need to stretch their 4 hours of content to 30 hours. And so after that point everything is just useless, repeated, or repeated useless information. I lost count halfway through the course at how many times they had spent ten minutes teaching me about every single drug to ever exist and their effects, as well as why they are illegal to drive with. Strangely enough, the course never suggested not doing drugs to begin with, only what to do if your're high on them (spoiler alert: its not driving). However, I did count at least ELEVEN SEPARATE LESSONS in which the slideshow goes completely off topic to spend ten minutes telling me about the cause and effects of drowsy driving over and over again, with absolutely no new information between the first and eleventh.
Misc and Examples
-you can tell the writers were paid by the hour and not by the quality of content when you get to this slide. That or this was written by Joe Biden, both are likely.
I did not write any typos, this quote was taken word-for-word, letter-for-letter from the lesson on Risk Management:
"Speed is one of the prime reasons in most of the accidents on the road. When a vehicle isn't in full control of you, the chances of an accident always there. Sometimes, people are in hurry to reach the destination & they speed up their vehicle. The reasons could be many but it's concluding part is that a family loses their family member.
It becomes a factor of motivation when you follow speed limits while driving a car & feel a factor of satisfaction inside, that you are serving happy & safe driving to the world."
Another quote from the same lesson:
"There is a popular saying that honesty is the best policy. When you keep honesty in your work, in your life, you become self-confident and self-motivated.
Why! Because you are fully satisfied from within. You feel proud of yourself. Same logic goes with driving."
Please note that I put more effort into writing this review than the entirety of the course itself.