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Welcome to the Moodle site for the

South Carolina Department of Education,

Office of Transportation


The site provides online professional development for bus driver in-service courses and SCDE School Bus Maintenance Shop employees. If you have questions about the bus driver online professional development courses, please contact your assigned SC Department of Education driver trainer instructor. SCDE employees should contact their County Supervisor or the SCDE Training Coordinator.

To take a course, please refer to your Moodle instructions.

  • You can obtain the course enrollment codes from your local school district's transportation supervisor.
  • New users can get started by clicking on New Account Signup above.
  • Returning users can click on Login at the top of the page.
SCDE School Bus Maintenance Shop employees will be provided course codes to access required training. Training should be completed as soon as possible once those codes have been received. Once an employee has completed a training course, they should print their certificate of completion and submit it to their Supervisor. Questions concerning training courses, general information, or enrollment should be sent to the SCDE Training Coordinator.

  • SCDE will conduct initial school bus driver classroom instruction during the 2020-2021 school year via Microsoft Teams on the following dates:
    • February 22 - 25
    • March 8 - 11
    • March 15 - 18 (evening class, 5:00 - 9:00 daily)
    • March 22 - 25
    • April 5 - 8
    • April 12 - 15 (evening class, 5:00 - 9:00 daily)
    • April 19 - 22
    • May 3 - 6
    • May 10 -13 (evening class, 5:00 - 9:00 daily)
    • May 17 - 20
    • June 7 - 10
    • June 14 - 17  (evening class, 5:00 - 9:00 daily)
    • June 21 - 24
    Daytime sessions run daily from 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM.
    Evening sessions run daily from 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM.

    Participants will enroll through their school district transportation department.
    For general information, contact Richard Podmore at rpodmore@ed.sc.gov or your assigned SCDE Driver Training Coordinator.

    2020 – 2021 Annual In-Service Virtual Instruction
    Two (2) hours annual in-service credit
    Covers railroad crossing procedures; accident procedures; mechanical breakdown or other emergency procedures; bus evacuation procedures; and pre-trip and post-trip inspection procedures.
    Training will be provided upon request throughout the 2020-2021 school year.
    Participants will enroll through their school district transportation departments.
    For general information, contact Richard Podmore at rpodmore@ed.sc.gov.

    Districts should contact their assigned SCDE Driver Training Coordinator to schedule instruction.