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Set up your own road scene: road users, signs, markings and roadworks

Rebuild the situation your pupil just met: place cars, bikes and people, add signs, road markings and roadworks, draw on the road, and play it.

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4 min read Written and reviewed by Niall Cullen, Approved Driving Instructor

In short

  • Open any junction and press Edit.
  • Place road users, signs, road markings and scenery such as roadworks, a skip or a broken-down car.
  • Draw on it with the pen, arrows, a sight line or a gap, and highlight the road user that matters.
  • Switch to 3D and play it.

Ready-made situations cover the textbook cases. The lesson you actually need is usually the one that just happened: the van parked on the corner, the roadworks before the junction, the cyclist the learner did not see. The Edit bar is for rebuilding that, at the roadside, in a minute or two.

Edit

The Scenery panel

The board's plan view of a T-junction in Edit mode, with the Scenery panel open offering roadworks, roadworks with temporary lights, a skip, a broken-down car, a tree, a hedge, a wall and a wooden fence.

What you can place, on the road

Road users

People on foot, bikes and vehicles

A main road from above with a woman pushing a pushchair along the far pavement, a cyclist in the far lane, and a man walking along the near pavement past a tall hedge.
Cars, a 4x4, a van, an ambulance, a lorry, a bus, cyclists, motorbikes, and adults, children and a pushchair on foot. Each one drives or walks its own route; Snap to lane puts a vehicle in its lane.
Scenery

Roadworks, a wall and a tree

The corner of a T-junction from above: a double-decker bus in the near lane, cones in the far lane, and a tree and a low brick wall on the grass behind the pavement.
Roadworks, with or without temporary lights, a skip, a broken-down car, trees, hedges, walls and fences. Traffic drives round roadworks and a broken-down car.
Closed corner

A hedge that blocks the view

A tall hedge along the back of the pavement on the corner of a T-junction, from above, with a man walking past it.
A hedge, wall or fence at the back of the pavement closes the corner, so the learner has to creep forward to see.
Signs and markings

A Give way sign, give way lines and SLOW

The purple learner car from above at the give way lines of a side road, with a Give way sign on the left corner and SLOW painted on the road behind it.
Signs include give way, stop, no entry, speed limits, turn bans, one way and no waiting, with a second tab of warning signs. Markings include stop and give way lines, lane arrows, hatching, yellow boxes, yellow lines, KEEP CLEAR, zebra crossings, cycle and bus lanes and mini-roundabouts.
Placed

Roadworks, a broken-down car and a sight line

The plan view of the T-junction with roadworks and cones on the main road, a red broken-down car by the kerb, a 30 mph sign, and a green sight line drawn from the learner's car along the main road.
The sight line shows how far the learner can see from the give way line.

Then see it in 3D

3D

The same junction from behind the learner

The T-junction from just behind the purple learner car at the give way line: the Give way sign on the left corner, the bus to the left, and roadworks with cones and barriers on the far side of the main road.

Everything placed on the plan stands in the 3D view, and the traffic drives round roadworks and a broken-down car. Highlight a road user and it is ringed in every view, from above and from the driver's seat, so the learner knows where to look.

Undo takes back the last change, and Start again clears the board. Boards you save stay on your device.

Frequently asked questions

Can I save a board I have set up?

Yes. Saved boards stay on the device you made them on; they are not sent to any account.

Related learning

Instructor Board Road diagrams in 3D and from the driver's seat Rain, fog and real junctions on the board

Part of a topic guide

Instructor Board for driving instructors

Part of Driving Mastery's guides to Instructor Board, the 3D teaching board for driving instructors: what it shows, and how to use it in a lesson.

Road diagrams for driving instructors, in 3D and from the driver's seat

A road diagram shows the junction from above. Instructor Board shows it from above, from behind the car and from the driver's seat, and plays it.

Teach in rain and fog, and on real junctions from the test routes

Switch any situation on Instructor Board to rain or fog, and teach on real multi-lane roundabouts and junctions drawn from public map data.

Sign and marking designs: Department for Transport, © Crown copyright. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Driving Mastery's learner guidance is written and reviewed by Niall Cullen, a UK approved driving instructor, so it stays practical, safe, and grounded in real driving lessons.