Online Courses & Tests
Take a course from the comfort of your home on the RYA's eLearning website - RYA Interactive
We know you may find it difficult travelling to an RYA Training Centre to take a theory course, so we have an eLearning website to bring the training direct to you. All you need is an internet connection.
All RYA courses and tests are run through RYA recognised training centres. To take an online course on www.ryainteractive.org you must first find an Interactive Training Centre who you pay and take your online course with. Your training centre will keep up to date on your progress throughout your course and will be on hand to offer any assistance needed by email or phone.
Courses and test available on RYA Interactive:
Professional Practices and Responsibilities (PPR)
A compulsory online course for new and revalidating RYA Commercial Endorsement holders applicable from April 2012.
More information
Training Centre who offer the PPR course - list coming soon
The Essential Navigation and Seamanship course
A beautifully designed interactive course for new and improving boaters. Modules include Passage Planning, Tides, Weather, Electronic Navigation, Anchoring, Pilotage, Charts, Safety, Navigation, Rules of the road and Buoyage.
“This course is world class! It gives the novice an excellent coverage of the subject allowing him/her to read more detailed books on each subject” - Stephen Booth
Full course content.
See a taster of the course
Training centres who offer this online course
The CEVNI test
Anyone requiring an International Certificate of Competence valid for inland waters must pass The CEVNI test. You can practise the test for free on RYA Interactive before enrolling with one of our test centres for the real test.
"A great quick and easy way to take this test in a hurry!" - Victoria Fisher
Practise the CEVNI test
Training centre who offer the online CEVNI test centre
SRC Pre-course Knowledge check
Anyone can take this knowledge check before their SRC radio course, just to make sure they're ready for the course.
Take the pre-course knowledge check
* Please note RYA Interactive online courses do not replace the Distance Learning courses which some of our centres offer. Distance Learning refers to courses which are run to our standard syllabus and use our assesment papers, but the delivery method and teaching materials have been devised by the individual training centres. Courses may be offered in any format including CD-based tutorials or online learning.