In A Day Traffic School

In A Day Traffic School seemed like a very reasonable course. I was able to finish in no time. The cost was very reasonable for the service. I had called many schools and looked at a lot of other sites. None of the other schools I tried to contact answered their phones. When I called InADay they answered their phone right away. The customer support representative directed me to the site, I was instantly greeted with another customer service rep offering me a discount. I went from no help at the other traffic schools to all the help I could ask for. I don’t get a lot of tickets so I don’t know much about this. The support staff were able to help me out with the whole service from start to finish. I signed up and finished in about 20 minutes. I had paid for their notification service and it was well worth it. They contacted me as soon as the DMV had processed out the ticket. I was very pleased with the whole service. The site is
. Check it out for yourself if you don’t believe me. Great customer service!!! I give them an A+

Two stars for two reasons: HIDDEN FEES and pushing «express» processing.
Ads for this place tout $ 14.
Go to their website and it is $ 16 with «NO HIDDEN FEES.»
Sign up, and it ends up costing about $ 30 because of HIDDEN FEES.
However, this place was on the difficult to find DMV list of approved internet traffic schools as of ²⁄₂₀₁₃.
Ask OneDayTrafficSchool if the certificate will be processed «same day» as promised, and get told that you should pay even more HIDDEN FEES to get «express processing.» The DMV’s website specifically mentions that there is no such thing as «express processing.»
OK… so you know you’re on the hook for $ 30 at this place (and probably most other traffic schools.) On to the actual course…
I finished in about half an hour, and I wasn’t hurrying.
You get presented with about ten «chapters.» Each chapter has about five screens of text for you to read, with some images. There is a quiz at the end of each chapter, and a «final» at the end.
It is pretty obvious that you copy+paste all the chapters into a document that you then search ctl+F to get the answers to the quiz… and final. That is if you don’t know them, which you probably should and do if you’re a decent driver.
I’ll update this post if there are any issues or problems processing my course to the DMV.

Getting a ticket sucks. And since the last time I got a ticket, they have since implemented a new «internet course», so I decided to test my luck and give it a whirl.
When you get the list of courses, there are no ratings, or criteria, just a list of names and phone numbers, so I was forced to just click through until I found one with a price and style I liked. I picked InADay Traffic School because they seemed to care the most about the things I did.
Here is my review:
+1 STAR: GOOD INITIAL DESIGN
I chose the program because it looked like the best designed out of the 15 courses I clicked on. (There were some SERIOUSLY ugly dogs on the list). I figured that if they cared about how the site looked, then maybe they would have a good experience.
–1 STAR: BAD TEXT DESIGN
They call out bold facts which often translate directly to test questions, and often it is clear which facts you should be remembering… but the aesthetic of the homepage design is not carried through to the content. This is less of a serious complain, but I wish they paid more attention to readability during the instruction. They could use a bit more space between the lines, and it would have been easier on the eyes if they reduced the width of the text column… which would help make it easier to comprehend.
–2 STARS: HIDDEN FEES
Before you start, they note that there are no hidden fees, and this is incorrect. In order to get the certificate delivered, you must agree to pay a service charge of at least $ 5 ($ 15 recommended) bringing my total to $ 30.
–1 STAR: NOT HELPFUL
As you take the course, there are 6 sections with mini tests. Those test allow you to push the back button on your browser to correct the wrong questions. However, they do no help instruct you in which ones are the right answers (which would have been helpful in study prep). Instead, you just push back and choose a different option then regrade your test until you are correct.
–1 STAR: A number of images were missing from the pages, including: signage examples in figure 1.7 and blood alcohol charts were missing entirely.
–1 STAR: MISSPELLINGS, GRAMMAR, PUNCTUATION
There were A LOT LOT LOT of misspellings, grammar errors, and incorrect punctuation (granted I am on a Mac and this might explain the incorrect characters, although that is still not a good excuse)
–1 STAR: MISSING INFO?!
They employ a method of adding random facts in areas of normal text which then you are tested on at the end (and in the State final exam as well) to keep you reading. I understand why they do this, however, along with some missing factual information, there were a number of questions on the tests which are NOT contained in the instruction copy. For example: The month that John Sutter discovered gold in California? Nowhere to be found. (it’s January in case you wondered).
In the end, the test turned out fine and I passed as promised. However, as I progressed through the real test at the end, I kept finding questions with answers that were not included in the instruction provided by InADay (even though the state test referenced your course material by name). In fact the 3 questions I ended up getting wrong, were not in the instruction material AT ALL?! (I know, because I went back and looked them up.)
I have encouraged the InADay team by email to review their materials to correct the mistakes, add the missing images, and revise the text to benefit further students. Hopefully they listen.