What’s in the Student App?

Introduction

Do you ever wonder what goes on in the head of your average 17 year old? Are you astonished that they actually manage to dress themselves sometimes or manage to arrive anywhere on time?

At MyDriveTime we don't have the answer either, but we do have the Student App which helps you to help your student in their driving journey not only by providing some administrative functions but also by supporting the student in the learning process.

If you have never considered using the student app or have used it and want to know what the student can actually see and do, then this blog post is for you.

The Student App

MyDriveTime's student app serves as a means of communication between instructor and student and vice versa. Not only does it do the simple stuff like telling them when their next lesson is, it provides a complete record of their learning journey from before the first lesson right through to the practical test and beyond! It gives them access to the progress they're making in respect to the syllabus along with any resources that you have made available to them. You can make the student app an invaluable asset for your students giving them a distinct advantage over all their friends.

Administrative Support

The student app gives your student information relating to the logistics of their learning journey, such as the date, time and location of upcoming lessons, their current credit and their progress through the syllabus thus far plus the lesson themes that they are currently working on.

The Terms & Conditions document you send can be viewed and signed in app - not with the tick of a box, but with a drawn digital signature.  

Lesson reminders arrive as a notification and can be 'snoozed' by the student until a time that suits them, making it even easier to adapt to their needs.  

The diary gaps you want to fill, by offering your students additional lessons are also made available in-app for them to consider and then accept or decline, with instant feedback to you.

Being able to rely on the app to do some administrative communication automatically for you is tremendously beneficial, saving you time and effort - and it is all included within your monthly subscription.

Although the student app does not need to be open all the time, it is important that notifications are turned on for MyDriveTime so please emphasise this to your students.

Learning Support

In addition to the administrative support that the student app provides, it can also provide considerable learning support, if you choose to use it.

• Journey Tracking - this allows your student to see where they have been on their lesson. It serves as a useful reminder of any specific problems they have had and they could then drive it again privately if they wanted to.
• Lesson Summary - this allows your student to see what you have written about their lesson. This may be in the form of a simple, short, descriptive summary or it could be a longer description covering aims for the lesson, progress against those aims, areas for improvement, plans for the next lessons, hints, tips, things to watch etc.
• Reflective Log - this allows your student to record their reflections on the lesson, how they felt it went, things they need to work on, things they have learned, things that worry them. You have the ability to set the questions but they supply all the answers and they can be extraordinarily revealing...
• Progress - this allows the student to see the syllabus in its entirety, including their current lesson themes, and how they are doing in relation to it.
• Resources - this allows your student to access resources that you have made available to them whether that be documents, diagrams, photos or videos.

All of the above, presented in a social media type feed, helps your student to feel that learning to drive isn't just a number of unrelated hours spent with a driving instructor but, instead, a continuous journey of learning a lifetime skill.

Videos

In order to help you to understand what the student app looks like and can do for you and your students, we have created a video just for you.

Click here to watch the video.

p.s., It also shows you what the student will see.

Not only that, but in order to help your students to understand the student app, we've done a video for them as well (and in case you think I have regressed about 50 years, it is voiced by Emily Hill, a star in the making!)

And Finally...

IT'S FREE!!!!!

In other words it is already included in your monthly subscription including terms and conditions, lesson reminders and diary gap notifications.

As always, if you find any issues with this release or anything else, please contact us at support@mydrivetime.co.uk.