Taking continuing education courses from BailCE.com is convenient and enjoyable, and you’ll find quality courses that meet your specific needs. You can take courses at any time of the day or night one hour at a time from anywhere you have a computer with Internet access and speakers. Take six of these one hour courses during each license year (there are two years in your license period) and you’ll complete your continuing education requirement. (First time renewers need to complete only six courses every two years, thereafter you will need to complete twelve courses every two years (six for each year) to meet the CE requirements for renewal.)

BailCE.com courses are similar to courses you’d take in a traditional classroom, delivered by an instructor with a slide show. On your computer screen you’ll see the “slides” as pages in the course and hear the instructor on the computer speakers.

Each page in the course has graphics, pictures, or text and has an associated sound file. When you launch a course, the first page with a picture of your instructor pops up on your computer screen, and you’ll hear the instructor introduce the course. When the instructor has completed talking, the “Next” button becomes active and clicking it moves you to the next page in the course. You can also go back by clicking the “Back” button. Follow this process all the way to the last slide in the course which, when clicked, will record your completion and take you to back to your Journal. Among other things, you can print your course completion certificates from your Journal and click on the Take Courses link to go back to the course catalog to select another course.

During the course you will find quizzes with written questions. These are designed to make sure you understand the previous material before moving on. Questions are multiple choice. When you click an answer and submit it for instant grading, if your answer is incorrect a message will pop up with material from the course that explains why your answer was incorrect. Read this material and re-answer and re-submit your corrected answer. You can answer as many times as necessary to answer the question correctly, there is no time limit, and you are not required to get the correct answer on the first try to pass the course. When all questions have been correctly answered you will move on to the next page of the course.

Department of Insurance regulations require you to spend at least one hour in the course material in order to obtain course credit, and BailCE courses are designed to be at least one hour in duration. As noted above, you will not be able to move forward to the next page until the instructor has completed speaking.

If you leave a course without finishing it, the next time you log in you will see a yellow triangle and a link in the lower right-hand portion of the page with a message telling you that you have a course in progress. If you click the link, you will go back to the page you were on in the course – clicking the link in the Journal will ensure you do not loose your place in the course. If you attempt to start the same course or another course from the Course Catalog, you will receive a pop-up notice reminding you that you have a course in progress and give you the option to go back to the place you left off in the course in progress or abandon that course and start another. If you do not select the option to restart the course in progress you will lose your place in that course and will have to re-do all the work you have previously completed.