Who this is for
Providers whose material is already the hard part.
If your students pass because of what you teach rather than because attendance was compulsory, this was built for you. Five kinds of provider are named below. The paragraphs name your artefacts rather than our features, because the only useful question here is whether we have understood what is actually on your desk.
The test
The same problem, five sets of paperwork
The shape of the problem does not change between them. You hold material you wrote or bought the rights to, it is correct, it is out of date every few years, and it exists as a book, a binder or a folder of files that nobody under thirty is going to read on a desk. Your students already study on a phone. They are just not studying yours.
We do not write courses, and we have no syllabus of our own to sell you. If your material is thin, we cannot fix that — the conversion inherits whatever you send, including the gaps.
Five kinds of provider
What each of you already has in the cupboard
Driving schools
The beachhead, and the one we know best. What you have is a theory manual, a set of signs and markings, and — the part that matters — years of your own past papers, sitting in a drawer or a Word file called something like fragen_final_2019.docx. Those questions are the reason a student passes with you rather than with the school in the next town. They go in exactly as you wrote them. Not paraphrased, not tidied, not modernised.
The rule that goes with a road sign is the kind of claim a student will be examined on, so it carries a page range and the sentence it was taken from. It counts as a verified citation only once that sentence has been matched against the text of the page it names; until then it shows as unverified, and it is never allowed to look like one that passed. The matcher is specified and is not yet written, so today a person does that with your book open.
- Your past papers
- The archive is the asset. Questions taken from your material are recorded as taken from your material, and a question that cannot be traced back to something you sent does not get to pretend it can.
- The theory manual
- PDF, Word, PowerPoint, a photograph of a printed page, or a scan from the machine in your office. Whatever state it is actually in.
- Signs and diagrams
- A diagram is a labelled gap in the lesson today, not a rendered picture. Image extraction is not built; the block type is called image_placeholder and that is exactly what it does.
- Hazard perception clips
- Video is not accepted. Nothing in the upload path takes it, and the clips stay where they are — we would rather say that here than after you have sent a hard drive.
Maritime and boating
Certificate preparation, and a syllabus your students have to be able to recite under pressure: the collision regulations, buoyage in whichever IALA region you sit in, chartwork, and the basic-safety material in the STCW folder that gets photocopied every intake until the diagrams are grey. If you run coastal or inland licences instead, it is the same folder with different section numbers.
The useful thing here is that so much of it is rule-numbered already. A claim in a lesson can point at Rule 5 and at the page of your own manual where you explained it, and a student who is about to be examined on the difference can check both. What none of this touches is the practical assessment. Sea time is still sea time, and we are not going to pretend a phone changes that.
Food handling and hygiene
Short courses, high volume, and a body of material that changes when a local authority changes its mind rather than when a parliament does. The artefacts are the HACCP plan, the allergen matrix pinned inside the kitchen door, the cleaning schedule and the temperature log that somebody signs twice a day. The training is mostly teaching people to do what those documents already say.
That makes it the easiest of the five to convert honestly, because almost every claim in the course has a printed source sitting behind it. It is also the one where a wrong number is most obviously a wrong number, which is why the figure below carries its page reference rather than a reassurance.
Cooked food held for hot service is kept at 63 °C or above. The temperature is recorded at the start of service and every two hours after that.
Kitchen manual · page 24 · § 4.2
Q7. Hot food goes out for service at 12:00. At what temperature is it held, and how often is that written down?
Your question bank · kept word for word
Trade and safety licensing
Electrical, gas, working at height, plant and machinery. The material is a wiring or installation standard you are licensed to teach against, plus your own additions: the method statements, the toolbox-talk sheets, the risk assessments, and the worked examples that only exist because you have seen what people get wrong. The additions are the part worth converting. The standard is usually somebody else’s copyright.
Which is where this gets awkward, and we would rather be awkward now. We ask who holds the rights before we convert a page. If the answer is a publisher or an awarding body and you do not have permission in writing, we decline the work rather than take your money and leave you holding it.
Commercial transport
Driver qualification modules, drivers’ hours and the tachograph rules, load securing, the pre-trip inspection sheet, and whichever dangerous-goods endorsements you are approved for. The material is heavily regulated, heavily numbered, and re-issued often enough that a printed binder is out of date most of the time it is in use.
Fleets and owner-drivers study in fragments — twenty minutes in a cab or a canteen — which is the pattern the student side was designed around: server-side progress, no download, and a lesson that reads on a phone held in one hand. There is no offline mode, and that is a decision rather than an omission.
The same for all five
What does not change between verticals
| Formats accepted | PDF, Word, PowerPoint, PNG, JPEG, plain text |
|---|---|
| Formats not accepted | Video, audio, spreadsheets |
| Largest single file | 250 MB |
| Scans and photocopies | Routed to text recognition, not guessed at |
| First chapter | About 15 pages, no charge |
| Converted and back to you | Within 5 working days |
| Origin labels on a block of text | 4, and your students see all four |
| Ways a question can be recorded | 3 — yours, machine-written, written by a person |
| Staff roles | 5, plus the student |
| Language models called anywhere in the product | 0 |
And a sixth
Anyone who publishes a syllabus and sets a pass mark
- 1
You wrote the material
Or you hold the rights to it in writing. That is the first question we ask and the one that most often ends the conversation early. - 2
There is an examination
A pass mark makes a question bank valuable, and a question bank is the thing this product is built to protect rather than replace. - 3
The rules move
If your material never changes, a printed book is cheaper than we are. If it moves every couple of years, the second year is where this earns its keep.
If you are not sure your vertical fits, say what you teach and we will tell you plainly whether it does. A wrong yes costs you a few thousand euros and costs us a customer who tells other people about it.
Recognising yourself above is only half of it. The other half is the list of providers we would turn away, which is longer and more specific: who this is wrong for
Send one chapter.
Not a demo of somebody else’s course. A chapter of yours, converted properly, so you can look at your own questions and your own page numbers and decide whether it is any good. Pick the chapter you know best. If it is no good, you have lost an email.
We will ask who owns the copyright before we convert anything. If you do not hold the rights to the material, we will say so rather than take the work.