Teacher onboarding guide
Good onboarding should make your profile clearer before it tries to make it bigger.
The point of onboarding is not to perform enthusiasm for the platform. It is to help you publish a teacher profile that is easy to review, easy to trust, and easy for the right students to understand.
Before you submit
Treat onboarding as profile preparation, not admin overhead.
Complete your teaching profile with a clear instrument list, lesson formats, and current pricing.
Upload identity, qualification, DBS, safeguarding, or insurance evidence only when you want those checks shown on your profile.
Review your public-facing copy before you submit so the first version already feels credible to students and parents.
What a strong teacher profile should communicate
Lead with teaching clarity
Students should understand what you teach, who you teach, and how lessons run without reading around vague promotional copy.
Use a calm, recognisable headshot
A straightforward profile photo does more work than a stylised or low-light image. The goal is trust, not personality theatre.
Keep supporting detail practical
Qualifications, experience, SEN work, and lesson modes should be easy to scan. Long biography text is less useful than legible structure.
Review flow
The review flow should make trust legible step by step.
Profile submission
Once the core profile is complete, submit it for review rather than treating profile publication as automatic.
Document review
Identity and optional trust evidence are reviewed as separate facts so the public profile can show exactly what has been checked.
Public teacher status
A teacher should only look live and trusted when the reviewed facts actually support that state.