Returning-Student Registration Improved

As your curriculum provider, Traffic Safety Consultants, Inc., (TSC) is always working—and working with you—to simplify and improve the educational experience for you and your students.

After receiving valuable feedback and multiple suggestions about how to make the registration process clearer for returning/repeat traffic violator school (TVS) students, we've carefully considered all options and the IT team has developed a solution designed to better meet their needs. We're pleased to introduce an improved procedure that allows returning students to overwrite their previous results, when necessary. This update gives students greater confidence when archiving their previous completion, ensuring that they can get started quickly with their new course and retain access to all of their records should they need them.

Students will now see a new message when they attempt to register for a course using an email that has already been used to establish a student account:

Please note:

• Students must enter a new password and personal identity validation question responses before proceeding to payment for their new course.
• Students will have to contact customer service for their TVS to access the information in their archived records (if necessary).
• Remember: California drivers may only attend traffic violator school once every 18 months.

Michigan Curriculum Updates

As your curriculum provider, Traffic Safety Consultants, Inc., (TSC) strives to ensure that we furnish you with the latest and most up-to-date educational materials. As such, we have revised our Basic Driver Improvement Course curricula to account for new laws taking effect in Michigan for late 2024/early 2025:

• updated child safety restaint requirements
• the use of cameras to enforce school bus stopping requirements and work zone speed limits
• a minimum 200-foot following distance for active snow removal equipment (previously deployed)

Internet Curriculum Updated

TSC has already updated the internet-based program, and your students are being presented the new material now. No further action is required for this modality.

Classroom Curriculum

Those of you who are delivering classroom instruction must ensure that you teach students the updated curriculum. You can access all of the latest curriculum materials for download via the Classroom Materials page on your affiliate administrative Web portal (login required). The files are available now, and you should begin using the updated materials immediately.

Please make sure that you and/or any instructors you employ are explaining the new laws to students and distributing the latest versions of the classroom materials, as you will be responsible for teaching/testing students on this new material!

California Driver Ed Video Updates, Mk. II

As your traffic safety education curriculum provider, Traffic Safety Consultants, Inc., (TSC) is constantly working to improve the content of the instructional materials that we present to students.

A few months ago, we announced that we had updated our internet-based driver education curriculum with new video content, with the promise that we would roll out similar changes to the classroom lesson plan in early 2025. We are excited to now share the results of our efforts to modernize and improve our classroom driver ed instructional content.

The new content slightly increases the total time dedicated to video presentations, giving students greater exposure to multi-modal learning; and the videos are now more evenly distributed throughout the course for a consistent learning experience. For instructors, we've done our best to group related materials together to provide for short breaks from lecture.

To teach the latest version of the curriculum, you'll need to download the following items via your CA Course Provider administrative website (login required):

• Lesson Plan: The table of contents and the course content itself have been updated to reflect the locations of the new video presentations within the lessons.
• Student Workbook (and Instructor Version): The spaces reserved for the "quizzes" within the older videos that are no longer in use have been removed.
• Video Files: There are a total of 18 new video (.mp4) files.

Please take a moment to download the new content and familiarize yourself with the changes.

(Note that the Ultimate Driving Challenge and National Driving Test #2 videos have been removed from the official curriculum and should no longer be presented to students.)

Make sure that you and/or any instructors you employ are presenting the latest edition of the curriculum, as you will be responsible for teaching/testing students on this new material!

New IT Features and Support for California

February brings news about streamlining behind-the-wheel scheduling for driver training and getting assistance if you're locked out of your California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) account!

Driver Training Scheduling

The information technology team at Traffic Safety Consultants, Inc., (TSC) has been hard at work over the past few months to provide a service that will modernize and simplify scheduling of driver training sessions for those using our driver education program.

The new scheduling experience is powered by Calendly, which integrates seamlessly with Google Calendar to offer an enhanced experience that is convenient and effortless for both students and educators:

• Students are able to see available openings and book an in-vehicle session directly online.
• Training providers can easily manage their availability and see their entire schedule at a glance.
• Automated communication provides helpful alerts that keep everyone on the same page.

Create a schedule that supports your success and say hello to a smarter way to manage your time! To get started, email Luis or call him at 800 . 487 . 1699.

TVCC Access Remedies

Getting locked out of your DMV Traffic Violator Course Completion (TVCC) account can be frustrating, but help is available! If your account has been locked due to multiple failed login attempts, simply…

• Call the DMV Occupational
  Licensing Hotline
  916 . 657 . 6567
• Let them know that you are:
• a traffic violator school (TVS) or driving school
• have been locked out of your TVCC account
• need a password reset

This should resolve your issue; but if you continue to have problems, contact your support team at TSC for assistance!

New California Laws for 2025

 A new year brings new traffic laws to California. Several new laws will take effect in 2025. As a provider of traffic safety and driver education in the state, you should familiarize yourself with these changes so you can provide proper education and assistance to your students.

Internet Curriculum Updated

As your curriculum provider, Traffic Safety Consultants, Inc., (TSC) has already updated the instructional content of internet-based courses, and it is being presented to your students now. No further action is required for this modality.

Booklet Curriculum

Those of you who are offering the home study booklet must ensure that you provide students with updated curriculum materials. Download from the CA Course Provider administrative website (login required) the latest final exam forms and answer keys, available now, and begin using those immediately.

The copyright notice is at the
bottom of the Table of Contents page.

The next order of books that you receive from TSC will be the latest edition. You may continue to use "old" booklets from your inventory. However, if the bottom of the Table of Contents page of a book that you are issuing to a student does not have a 2025 copyright (see example picture), you must include a "booklet insert" (available for download from the CA Course Provider Administration website) with that student's materials.

Make sure that you ship the latest versions of the home study booklet (or include an insert) and testing materials, as you will be responsible for teaching/testing students on this new material!

Classroom Curriculum

Those of you who deliver classroom instruction must ensure that you teach students the updated curriculum. Download the electronic files from the CA Course Provider administrative website (login required) for the latest Lesson Plan updates, Safe Driving Journal (student and instructor versions), and final exam forms/answer keys. The files are available now, and you should begin using the updated materials immediately.

Make sure that you and/or any instructors you employ explain the new laws to students and distribute the latest versions of the classroom materials, as you will be responsible for teaching/testing students on this new material!

New Jersey Lesson Plan Updates

As your curriculum provider, Traffic Safety Consultants, Inc., (TSC) strives to ensure that we furnish you with the latest and most up-to-date educational materials. As such, we have revised our defensive driving course curricula to account for the addition of the requirement for practice driving time for drivers-in-training under the age of 21. This new law will go into effect for prospective New Jersey motorists for February 2025.

Internet Curriculum Updated

TSC has already updated the internet-based program, and your students are being presented the new material now. No further action is required for this modality.

Classroom Curriculum

Those of you who are delivering classroom instruction must ensure that you teach students the updated curriculum. You can access all of the latest curriculum materials for download via the Classroom Materials page on your affiliate administrative Web portal (login required). The files are available now, and you should begin using the updated materials immediately.

Please make sure that you and/or any instructors you employ are explaining the new laws to students and distributing the latest versions of the classroom materials, as you will be responsible for teaching/testing students on this new material!