Making it hard to coach

We just had something similar only it wouldn't play if minimized and had quizzes every chapter or so.

We have a laptop and a desk top both at school so I just put it on my laptop and set it up in the back and randomly stop by to see when it needs attention.

Would be nice if they would let you take quiz first and if you passed it then would be good to go. There’s no integrity to the product the way it is except as a cya.

This stuff is like using homemade biscuits to make pigs in a blanket.

You sir are my hero!

That's the best part. Whatever NFHS concussion video is mandatory every year. You take a prequiz (10 questions maybe?). I get 10/10 right every year. Have to take the course (30 minutes or so), then TAKE THE EXACT SAME QUIZ and get a 10/10. Why? What is the purpose of this? 

It's the same process with Cardiac Arrest and maybe first aid, accept those are not required every year. Take a quiz. Get every question right. Still have to sit through the course. Take the same quiz. Brilliant. 

You should see if you can drag the thing on the video bar to the very end. I've "heard from a friend" that you can do this for a lot of the county mandated and school videos we have to watch...but you never heard it from me, ok?

Dual monitors are your friend.

I hate those things.

The last two years I coached was required to do on-line training.

After each part of each section - Concussions, Heat Awareness, Rules changes, etc. - there was a multiple choice quiz.

If you did not get all of the answers correct in any quiz you had to go back to the beginning of the entire section - not just part where your answer was incorrect.

The first year one of the quizzes had no answers that matched the information given in the video. Very ambiguous if not downright misleading. Almost as if intentional.

I tried all of them for a few hours.

I called the state rep responsible for Football and told him my dilemma and the problem with the quiz.

He gave me a clue, but not the answer.

Now I had been a HC for 30 years at this time and the question was about what to do if a team did not have state-approved ball for a playoff game. Not concussions, not rules changes-interpretations.

Turns out there were TWO correct answers - neither of which matched the wording in the video.

I finally figured it out, got my certification.

Next year - same presentation (slides, voice over) on playoff footballs (less than half the teams in our state even qualify for playoffs), same quiz.

People, supposedly professionals, get paid to do this stuff.

Like many things in public education, it’s in place to satisfy politicians and angry parents who have no idea what it’s like to teach or coach. At the end of the day the only winners are the companies that host these “courses” and the losers are the coaches who used some of the precious finite time they have to learn something they already knew.

That is an absurd amount of courses. 

Are you at a large or small school district? 

I am in my fourth district and it's tiny. Combined elementary-middle school, single high school and administrative building all on the same campus. 

I may never leave this place. When I was at all of the large districts the bureaucracy and BS were rampant. Here things are done in a much more common sensical way. I am not sure if it's because the district is small or if I am just lucky. 

I always score 10/10 on the pre-test and then score 9/10 after watching the videos. Hahahaha.

Now that's funny right there, I don't care who you are.

Exactly!!

Follow the money - odds are that the trail begins and ends with the honorable profession of law (dripping sarcasm).

Attorneys are paid to put together these training programs that are necessary because...the same attorneys say they are. If they fixed the legal system/profession, a whole lot of bullsh*t we all deal with would go away.