Learners book themselves beta
The instructor enters a weekly window: day, hours, lesson length and place. The learner picks a free slot, and the booking is a lesson in the schedule and register right away.
Bookings Who it is for: Driving school
Cerium for driving schools
Software for a driving school from the first enquiry to the end of the course: the learner as a record, group theory, one-to-one lessons in the instructor’s schedule, a course syllabus and fees in instalments in one place.
One learner, from enquiry to course end
This is a learner’s path through a driving school. Each step is a module that hands its data to the next, so nobody retypes anything.
- CRM
Enquiry in the CRM
A candidate asks about a category B course through a form behind a link or a QR code on a flyer, and the enquiry lands in the pipeline with a stage, an owner and a next step.
- Students
The learner as a record
A won enquiry creates the learner in one dialog. A minor can have a guardian with their own account who pays and sees progress.
- Students
Training agreement
An agreement from the school’s template or its own PDF, filled from the records. Text and number are frozen, and the learner accepts it by link, without an account.
- Groups
Theory in a group
The theory group carries its category as text, for example “category B”, a classroom and a series of sessions for the whole course that skips the school’s days off on its own.
- Bookings
One-to-one driving lessons
Driving lessons are a group with one learner and an instructor. The instructor enters a weekly window, and the learner picks a free slot, which becomes a lesson in the schedule right away.
- Course programme
Course syllabus
The school lays the course out as stages in order, for example manoeuvring yard, city traffic, out-of-town route. “Where we are” follows from the lessons held.
- Journal
Register
The instructor marks attendance, enters the lesson topic, points to the syllabus stage and leaves a note for the learner.
- Finance
Course fee in instalments
The course fee is split into instalments whose dates and amounts can be adjusted before saving. The learner pays by link or by a card charged automatically, and reminders go out by email.
- Exercises
Theory quizzes
The school writes its own multiple-choice questions and assigns them to the theory group. The learner answers them in the panel, and the system scores the result.
- Certificates
School certificate
At the end of the course the school issues a completion certificate from one template, numbered in sequence for the year, with a link to print.
An instructor’s day
An instructor spends the day in the car, not at a desk. Everything they do around a lesson fits on a phone, between one learner and the next.
DashboardToday, Thursday
- 08:00 Kasia, driving manoeuvring yard now
- 10:00 Tomek, driving city
- 17:00 Theory, category B classroom
Kasia, driving 1/1 present
- Topic
- Parallel parking
- Syllabus
- Stage 2/6
- Length
- 90 min
- Memo
- practise hill starts
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You open the Dashboard
The day’s lessons are listed in order, with the place and the learner or group.
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You open the lesson
One tap opens the lesson in the register.
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You mark attendance
From the menu next to the learner, lateness straight away with minutes, and a short note on any status.
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Topic and syllabus stage
You note what was practised, for example parallel parking, and point to the syllabus stage the lesson covered.
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A note for the learner
A note, for example about hill starts, goes to the learner, or only to the guardian when the learner has one.
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The learner knows
They see it in their account and get one digest notification, not an email after every click.
The panel runs in the phone’s browser and is designed from a width of 390 px. An App Store and Google Play app with push notifications is in preparation.
What a driving school runs on
Seven things a driving school does every week: lessons, schedule, syllabus, register, instalments, theory and certificates.
Lessons booked by the learner
The instructor enters the hours they drive, and the learner or guardian picks a free slot. The system takes the instructor’s busy hours out on its own.
Module: BookingsInstructor schedule
Day, week and month by instructor or by room, with the yard and the classroom in the school’s catalogue and many lessons changed at once.
Module: ScheduleCourse syllabus
Stages in order with a planned number of lessons, one syllabus per driving or theory group, and progress counted from lessons held.
Module: Course programmeCourse fee in instalments
An instalment, one-off or per-lesson plan, a payment link, a card charged automatically, email reminders and cash receipts at the desk.
Module: FinanceLesson register
Attendance, lateness in minutes, lesson topic, syllabus stage, notes and the learner’s attendance rate.
Module: JournalTheory quizzes
The school’s own multiple-choice questions, with a number of attempts, a pass mark and a time limit, scored by the system.
Module: ExercisesCompletion certificate
A completion certificate for many learners at once, numbered in sequence for the year, with a print link.
Module: CertificatesLessons, extra practice and instructor pay
A one-to-one lesson lives in the same schedule and register as theory. There is no second calendar to keep in sync.
Cancellation with one rule beta
Before a set number of hours the lesson disappears. After that it stays as “cancelled late”, and the learner sees this before clicking.
BookingsMake-up and extra lessons
A make-up lesson or an extra one before the test is added with the “Add lesson” button, and a new series does not overwrite it.
GroupsCover
Another instructor takes over a single lesson for the day, and the schedule shows it on that instructor’s track.
SchedulePaying for extra lessons
A “per lesson” plan counts the amount from lessons not cancelled in the month at the school’s rate and follows the schedule when a lesson is added or removed.
FinanceInstructor pay
The monthly amount is calculated from lessons held, at the rates in the instructor’s contract.
SettlementsHour bundles with an expiry date are not available today. Nor is a counter of hours against the legal minimum: attendance shows in the register, but the system does not compare it with course requirements.
Who sees what
One school, four points of view. The server enforces the boundary on every save, not a hidden button in the menu.
| Role | Sees | Changes |
|---|---|---|
| Owner | The whole school: finances, schedule, instructors, agreements, instructor pay and every message thread. | Instalment plans, staffing, syllabuses, rooms, agreement and certificate templates, school settings. |
| Instructor | Their own learners and groups and their syllabuses, and when covering, the lesson only within its window. | Their weekly window, attendance, topic, syllabus stage and notes, but only on their own lessons. |
| Front desk | Learner and guardian records, the enquiry pipeline, payments, and groups, schedule and register read-only. | Creates learners, works enquiries and takes payments with cash receipts at the desk. |
| Learner | Their week, their own register, theory quizzes and instalments if they have no guardian. | Books and cancels lessons, takes quizzes, pays online and writes to the school. |
What Cerium connects to, and what it does not
The “no” list is here on purpose: better to know before the demo than after the rollout.
Available
- Stripe: online payments and automatic card charges
- KSeF via Fakturownia, wFirma, iFirma or inFakt
- Email: messages to learners, guardians and payers
- Cerium’s own video sessions, for example remote theory
- CSV: import and export of lists
- API key for an enquiry form on your website
Not available today
- Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams
- Google and Apple Calendar
- SMS
Questions we hear most often
Short answers, no overpromising. What is missing is listed alongside.
What Cerium does not do here
- No PKK or candidate profile: that stays with the authorities, not with Cerium.
- No counting of hours against the legal minimum and no statutory lesson record.
- No vehicle register today: a car is not a record in the system.
- The school writes theory quizzes itself, as text, without the official question bank or images.
Yes, in the Bookings module, which is in beta today. The instructor enters a weekly window, and the learner or guardian picks a free slot. The system removes the instructor’s lessons, the school’s days off and blocked days, and the booking becomes a lesson in the schedule and register right away. There is no reminder the day before yet.
Yes. An instalment plan has 2 to 24 instalments, and the date and amount of each can be adjusted before saving, including a percentage markup. The learner or guardian pays by link through Stripe on the school’s account or by a card charged automatically, and the desk takes cash with a receipt.
No. The system does not compare lessons held with the legal minimum of hours and does not keep the official lesson record required by the regulation. It has a register with attendance, topic and attendance rate, and a syllabus that shows which stage the learner is at.
No. Vehicles are not records, and the PKK number or candidate profile are not fields in the system. A place such as the manoeuvring yard is entered as a room in the school’s catalogue. The system does not detect two lessons in the same place.
An internal one, yes: a completion certificate from the school’s template, numbered in sequence for the year, issued in batches and sent by link. It does not replace the documents a driving school submits officially before the state test.
Yes, in Exercises. The school writes its own multiple-choice questions, sets the number of attempts, the pass mark and the time, and the system scores the result. Questions are text only, without images, and do not come from the official exam question bank.
Close to this
Online lessons
A video lesson inside Cerium: the teacher opens the room from the schedule, the student joins from their journal.
Messages
Mail inside the school: a thread with a subject, replies one under another.
CRM
A pipeline of inquiries: who asked, what they want, what it is worth, where it stands.
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