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This course is approved by the Vermont State Police to satisfy the education requirements for those boaters that are required to complete a boating safety course.
The first step is to register for your course by clicking on the Begin! button on the navigation bar. It will then be necessary for you to provide us with a user name, password information, name and birth date. We do not share your information with third parties. Please read our disclosure and security information by clicking on the Privacy Policy link provided at the bottom of every page.
In order to receive a certificate of completion, you must complete the entire course, including unit quizzes. However, you may come and go whenever you please and take as long as you like to complete your course.
Because you are required to spend a minimum amount of time studying each page, all the pages are timed. The timing is set to a minimum number of seconds for reading the page. If you take longer to read the page than the minimum required, that is fine. There is no penalty. Notice that at the bottom of every page there are two black rectangular buttons. These buttons will allow you to navigate through the course. You can move ahead to the next page only if you have spent the required amount of time on the present page. If you log out of the program or go back to another page before the time has expired on any one page, you will not be given credit for it. However, when you log out, we keep track of your progress so that you can log in again to the course and pick up where you left off by visiting the My Course page. The course is timed to require at least 3½ hours of study, excluding time spent on testing.
You may review your progress in the course at any time by clicking on My Course on the navigation bar. On the My Course page you will see an outline of the course. Click on a Unit title to expand the menu and view individual links to topics and pages within that unit. The checkmarks you see next to Unit pages indicate you have completed that page. You can go back in the course to any page you have read before. However, you cannot jump ahead to pages that you have not yet visited.
Once you have logged in, if there is no activity or interaction with the course for more than fifteen minutes you will be automatically logged out. It will be necessary for you to log back in to access the course. A notice stating, “Your session has expired due to inactivity” will appear at the top of the web page.
Once you have registered for the course, you will have a user name and password. Always keep this information handy. If you exit the course or log out, you must log in again with the user name and password to continue with the course.
If you need to change your log-in information, click on the My Info button on the navigation bar at the top of any web page in the course. Re-submit your revised information using the form provided.
There is a quiz at the end of each unit. If you don't pass a quiz, you will be required to go back and study the unit again. The clock or timer for the unit pages will be reset, you must study the material again, and then take a new unit quiz. You must pass each unit quiz in order to progress to the next unit.
After completing all units, you must take and pass a Final Exam covering all the course material. You will be given the option of taking a Practice Exam or going directly to the Final Exam. By taking a Practice Exam, you can check to see if you are sufficiently prepared to take the Final Exam.
You may take as many Practice Exams as you wish before committing to the Final Exam. However, once you start a Final Exam, you must complete it and receive a score. You must score at least 80% on the Final Exam to pass.
Once you have successfully completed the course and the Final Exam, you will pay for the course and be given a link to your course completion certificate. At that point, you can view and print the certificate from your computer, or have a PDF file of the certificate sent to your email address.
