For Professionals:
Drive Focus is a great tool for the classroom. Here are a couple of options for getting Drive Focus into your classroom:
Option 1. Purchase a Drive Focus app for each students’ device. This works well in schools where the students have their own devices (e.g. Chromebooks).
Advantages: You can assign Drive Focus for homework and Students can simultaneously use Drive Focus in the classroom.
Option 2. You can download Drive Focus to a limited number of devices in the classroom and have the students take turns using the app.
Just as in the option above, each student will set up a Drive Focus login. When sharing devices, they simply need to log in and log out. There is an unlimited number of accounts that you can create with one Drive Focus app.
Classroom tips for teaching about distracted driving with Drive Focus
- Have students sit quietly and play a drive on Drive Focus and document their scores
- Play that same drive again while talking with a friend, eating, or texting. Their scores will go down with the added distraction even though they are familiar with the drive and can anticipate the on-road events.
- They can use the score details to see what they missed while distracted.
Recommendations for time spent on Drive Focus
Research on Drive Focus recommends 6 hours of practice for new drivers. You will find that publication here:
For more research on Drive Focus, take a look at these publications.
How to use Drive Focus
App Function Walkthrough
Create an account
First you will need to create an account using your email address and a password of your choice.
You will receive a verification email. If you don’t see it within 3 minutes check your spam or junk folder for an email from [email protected].
Click the orange Verify button in the email.
Go to Drive Focus and Sign In with your email and password. And begin using Drive Focus!
Start with the Training section
Select the Critical Items for the AUS or US
Click on the icon of each of the 11 critical items to learn why and when those items are important to notice.
Select a Tour
There are a lot of Tours to select from within Australia, Canada, and the United States. And we keep adding more.
Each Tour has 6-7 Drives. Download a Drive and click on the 11 critical items in order of priority. Each Drive in a Tour gets progressively more challenging. When you get a score of 500 or higher the next Drive will open.
Play the Drives at different speeds. 100% is the speed that the Drive was taken when filmed. But you can also reduce the speed to 80% or 60%.
In the settings you can add the critical item marking to know when the next item is about to appear.
Your score will be reduced if you use the reduce speed and the critical item marking. But it can help to practice with these features.
Review the score
Whether you get a score below or above 500, review the score details to see what critical items you missed. The score details description will tell you the exact item you missed. You will be able to click a link to play back a 3 second clip where the item occurred.
A score of 650-799 or more is a GOOD score. A score of 800 or higher is AMAZING!
We highly recommend shooting for AMAZING. We know you have it in you!!
How to get the most out of Drive Focus
Realistic Driving Experiences
Explore interesting destinations and driving environments while improving your road awareness.
Adjustable Video Speed
Adjust the pace of each drive to suit your individual learning needs.
Detailed Feedback
In depth feedback improves your road awareness
Instructional Aid
Enable remote viewing of student and client performance, facilitating customized and personalized feedback.
How to monitor your students' progress
You will also be able to view your students’ scores as a group or individually with Drive Focus User Analytics.
Drive Focus User Analytics
- Your student gives you permission to access their Drive Focus data
- Log on on to your web browser to see their scores
- Use Drive Focus User Analytics to analyze results and create reports
- Helps you target your instructions to the class or an individual
Drive Focus User Analytics is currently provided at no cost. Click on the link below to get started.
Explore new places with Drive Focus.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a multiple user option?
You can create an unlimited number of users with the low price of a single Drive Focus app. Things to keep in mind:
- You will need to purchase a Drive Focus app for each device you plan to use it on.
- Each client will “Sign-Up” with their email and password. They should have a Smartphone handy for the verification step.
- After the client has used the Drive Focus app, they must log out (found in the settings) before the next client signs-in or signs-up.
Should my clients/ students use Drive Focus at home?
Drive Focus has the most benefit if used at home.
- The research indicates that 6 hours of practice with Drive Focus is when significant improvements begin. Typically, clients/ students cannot get that much time on Drive Focus if they are only using it in a facility setting (e.g. classroom, hospital or clinic).
- Clients/ students would purchase and download Drive Focus onto their home device.
- Because Drive Focus is Cloud-based they will be able to sign-in with the same username and password on any device with Drive Focus. This means that they can resume where they left off on the Drive Focus app despite changing devices.
What features are most helpful to me as a professional?
To get the most out of Drive Focus, watch this 9 minute video.
Even if you are not using Android devices, all of our devices now work like the Android version so disregard the title.
User Analytics for Drive Focus allows you to monitor your clients’/ students’ time spent on the app, progress, and identify their strength and areas where they need support. You can also print and save reports. Learn more about User Analytics for Drive Focus here.
