New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 15 - Department of Motor Vehicles › Chapter I - REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER › Subchapter J - Driver Rehabilitation Programs › Part 141 - Motor Vehicle Accident Prevention Course By Internet Or Other Technologies (alternate Delivery Methods) › Section 141.8 - Adm course requirements

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Course
				  timing. The ADM course shall include built-in timers to ensure that 320 minutes
				  of instruction have been attended and completed by the student. Timers shall be
				  built into online and interactive courses in order to prevent a motorist from
				  advancing to the next page or section in less than the amount of time it would
				  take the average person to read or be exposed to that page or section. Timers
				  shall be incorporated into the verification process so that if a telephone
				  verification system is used, the student cannot complete the validation piece
				  of each section until the amount of time that it would take an average person
				  to complete such section has passed.
Each sponsoring agency application, submitted in accordance
					 with section
					 141.5  of this
					 Part, must include a specific plan for how instruction time will be calculated.
					 In addition, a record of such calculations, including all instruction time,
					 will be recorded and stored by the sponsor and made available to the third
					 party monitor and the department for monitoring and quality control purposes.
					 This information, as part of each student's completion record, must clearly
					 differentiate actual interactive instruction time from non-instruction time
					 such as log-in procedures, administrative tasks, help functions, validation
					 processes, and audio/visual media download times. This information shall also
					 be used by the sponsor in fulfilling its monitoring responsibilities as defined
					 in section
					 141.6  of
					 this Part. The sponsor shall store this data for a minimum of five
					 years.
(b) In-person
				  testing alone shall not be sufficient proof that the motorist participated in
				  the 320-minute course.
(c) The ADM
				  course shall use the following methods to ensure that the course instructional
				  time will take 320 minutes. In order to demonstrate that the course provides
				  sufficient content, the ADM shall use the following methods:
(1) word count. The sponsor shall count the
				  total number of words in the text or written sections of the course and divide
				  by 100, the estimated number of words a student can read per minute. The result
				  will be total minimum time for written material;
(2) multimedia presentations. For
				  audio/visual presentations, the total time, in minutes, it takes the multimedia
				  presentations to play;
(3) charts
				  and graphs. The ADM can allow one minute for each chart or graph;
(4) simulations and exercises. The calculated
				  time of simulation or exercise, allowing sufficient time for the user to follow
				  along at the required pace;
(5)
				  personal and content questions. The sponsor may allow up to 45 seconds for
				  personal question responses and up to 60 seconds for content question
				  responses; and
(6) sponsors can
				  propose alternate time calculation methods so long as sponsors can demonstrate
				  that the course meets the 320 minute minimum requirement.