What is the instructor dashboard?

What is the instructor dashboard?

The instructor dashboard is your workspace for teaching. Today is the starting point; use My bookings for lesson actions and Messages for conversations with students, parents, and schools. On Today, Replay dashboard tour reopens the guided introduction for the tools your profile can reach. The tour is separate from the live FASS AI assistant.

Get access and finish setup

Use your existing FASS account to accept the school's instructor invitation or complete the independent-instructor setup. Choosing an account purpose alone does not assign you to a school. If no instructor profile is linked, ask the school to send or correct its invitation.

You can keep an existing learner or school-owner account when it has a linked teaching profile. Having school-management access alone does not create that profile or grant another instructor’s tools. Check the selected profile and its current access if a teaching tool is missing; do not create another account solely to switch workspaces.

Open Getting started at /instructor-dashboard/getting-started, or View all steps in Your next step on Today. The plan checks saved profile, verification, availability and publication facts, with optional qualification and calendar steps. Awaiting review is different from approval; continue other available steps. A hidden tool may offer Review dashboard modules rather than its normal action. Save changes in the actual editor. See setup plans and step help. Instructors are guided to set up an authenticator app; keep the recovery codes somewhere safe. Account → Security lets you manage account security afterwards.

Find your daily work

• Today — the day's lessons, tomorrow's preview, and recent activity where available.
• My bookings — booking filters, assignment responses, lesson outcomes, notes, and progress reports.
• My schedule — calendar view of assigned work and busy periods.
• Availability — weekly pattern, dated overrides, time off, and requests.
• Messages — your client conversations, including parent threads.
• Lessons — group roster, lesson plans, and equipment checks where enabled.
• My page — public-page layout, lesson images, QR code, and supported email branding.
• Account — profile, My schools, qualifications, verification, Go independent where available, notifications, dashboard modules, and security.

Read any licence-renewal notice for the recorded expiry, renewal action, and restrictions applying to the selected profile. A pending renewal is not an extension of an existing approval.

Some tools appear only after their setup or activity requirements are met. GPS tracking and accident reports are currently unavailable; an older guide or screenshot may show them.

Teaching and running a business

A school owner who teaches can use both the school and instructor workspaces with one account. The school dashboard manages the business; the instructor dashboard manages the selected teaching profile. Use the profile selector when you hold more than one instructor profile.

Your My schools page manages school affiliations. School office staff can work with school permissions without creating an instructor profile. Only create a teaching profile for someone who teaches.

Changing a lesson assignment and confirming a student's booking are separate actions. Check any assignment response requested in My bookings before assuming you are covering the lesson.