In the car
Every instructor intends to write the lesson up. Then there is another pickup in ten minutes, and then it is nine at night, and by the time you sit down you can remember four of the seven lessons you taught. Progress is easy to feel and very hard to prove — which becomes a problem the first time a pupil asks why they are not ready for test.
27 competencies, 8 categories, six levels from Not Started to Reflection. Using the DVSA's own structure rather than a homemade one has a practical consequence: when you tell a pupil they are not ready, you are not offering an opinion. You are showing them which of the 27 are still short, in the same language the examiner will use.
That turns the hardest conversation in the job — the one where someone wants to book a test you know they will fail — from a disagreement into a look at the same screen.
The record is only worth having if it gets filled in, so logging is built for the thirty seconds while a pupil is finding their bag: tap the skill, set the level, done. It works on your phone, and it keeps working with no signal — the app runs offline and syncs when you are back in coverage, which matters when half your lessons end on a country road.
Pupils see their own record in their portal — where they are on each skill, what is booked, what they have paid for. Instructors consistently report the same second-order effect: the running commentary of 'how am I getting on?' messages drops away, because the answer is somewhere the pupil can look at eleven at night without texting you.
Nothing changes about the hour itself.
Tap the skills, set the levels, add a line of notes if it is worth it.
The pupil's portal updates, their readiness view updates, and the next lesson's briefing is written from it.
The DVSA one — all 27 competencies across the 8 official categories, on a six-level scale from Not Started through to Reflection. Not a simplified version, and not our own invention. It is the framework examiners use, which is what makes the record meaningful to a pupil.
A couple of taps per skill you worked on, on your phone, at the kerb. The point is that it happens before you drive off — notes written at eleven at night are notes half-remembered, and notes never written are the real problem.
Yes. Every pupil gets a portal where they can see where they are against each DVSA skill, what is coming up, and their remaining lesson balance. In practice this is what stops the 'how am I doing?' texts — they can just look.
Not yet. A separate parent and guardian login is not available. Pupils can show a parent their own portal in the meantime.
They open the same record and see exactly where the pupil got to. That is the difference between a shared framework and a notebook in someone's glovebox — cover lessons stop costing the pupil ten minutes of re-explaining.
You can record a pupil's test on their record and mark it passed. Pass-rate reporting across your whole school is coming soon. Alongside that, every pupil carries a test readiness view built from evidence in real lessons rather than a hunch.
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