Your Instructor Profile Part 1: How to Populate Your Profile

You can easily edit your profile by hovering over the gear icon in the top corner and clicking on my settings.

This will take you to your profile page.  There are three tabs here:
1. Account (this is where your general account info is)
2. Instructor Profile (this is where you'll set your rate, your biography, and your instruments)
3. Personal and financials

The email address that you have listed will be the one where all Lessonface notifications are sent; you'll want to make sure you've signed up with an address that you regularly monitor. You can update your email address and password at any time. Unfortunately, you can't update your username once you've created your account.

Set your time zone to whatever is local to you.  Lessonface will automatically convert the time you list as available into whatever is local for whomever viewing your profile.

You'll be asked to post two photos on Lessonface: one as part of your account and another for your Instructor Profile. This first one is the photo will show up when you send messages. No one wants to talk to a silhouette so make sure that you post a photo here.

Instructor Profile > Skill Level
Help prospective students find you by advertising the skill levels that you can teach.  This is a place to be honest: if you don't want to teach beginners then say so. Similarly, if you don't feel comfortable teaching pros, this is a chance to say so as well.

Instructor Profile > Rates
Step 1 - select the length of lessons you'll offer
Click on the boxes for each of the lesson lengths that you will teach. The most common classes taught are 30 and 60 minutes in length. If you aren't available for a particular lesson duration, be sure to uncheck the corresponding box.
Prospective students also really dig a 15-minute trial lesson; this can also be a great way to start building a relationship.

Step 2 - determine the rate of each lesson type
Input the price of each lesson type in USD.
If you want to offer a 15-minute trial, enter "0.00" in the 15-minute box.

Step 3 - display rates option
Some teachers like openly advertising their rates; some don't. Whatever your preference, the choice is yours. By checking this box, your price will not be visible on your profile page until a student selects an available time for a lesson.

Step 4 - bundling
Select if you want to allow students to purchase bundles of lessons.  If you select the 10 lesson bundle, students will automatically get a 10% discount when they purchase 10-lessons with you at one time.

Lessonface will publish your availability for students to be able to sign up for available times; students will see a populated calendar at the bottom of your profile page.

Step 1 - select the date range
This tells the calendar interface for when your availability is valid. If you want this box to reflect your current availability, make sure that the "to date" is set for the future (don't forget to check the year).

Step 2 - select the days and time
Input a time (in 24-hour time mode) range for when you are available.

Step 3 - select the days of the week
These are the days that you are available for the times you selected above.

Step 4 - save
Once you've added a time range, go ahead and save at the bottom of the page so you don't lose your information.

But what if I want to have different times available on different days of the week?
No problem!  Click the "add another item" button.  This will create a second Availability box.  Enter the next time range when you are available. This will be cumulative; that is, each new set of times will be in addition to your previously added blocks of availability, but won't replace them.

I want to set up some blocks of time in my general availability when I can't teach.
You can add availability exceptions which will make certain blocks of time unavailable on your profile.  You'll enter exceptions the same way that you added blocks of availability.
If you need to input multiple exceptions, you can click on the "add another item" button.

Some tips on your availability:
Having availability that is too wide can be detrimental to attracting students. Students become frustrated when they sign up for a time that you actually aren't available.  Stick to some times each week that you are confident will be available for you.

If you have any questions about setting up your availability, email [email protected].

Instructor Profile > Notes on availability
Input some general notes on when you will be available.  This is not displayed to students on your profile and is just to help out the Lessonface team to try and schedule students with you.

Please be as specific as possible here.

Instructor Profile > Bio
This is what will populate on the "About" section of your profile.

Some pointers for this section:

• Share your story - either in the first or third person (but remain consistent throughout). You're aiming to captivate students.
• Talk about your training, experience, and expertise.  Give people a reason to say, "Wow! I want to take lessons with someone like that!"
• Mind the accolades.  You want to impress people with your expertise without intimidating or boring them.

Some pro tips:

• Feel free to use the rich-text editor to add basic formatting elements that will cause your page to come to life. 
• Be careful copying and pasting directly from another website or a word processing document. Sometimes residual formatting can stay on the text.
• Embed SoundCloud or MySpace iframes to show off your musical talent (you can do this in the source editor).

Need help? Email [email protected].

Instructor Profile > Teaching Style
​You just had an awesome opportunity to talk about yourself; now you get to talk about your students. What will they get out of lessons with you? What are the specific goals that you can help them attain? What is your field of expertise in? Is there a specific methodology that you use?

Students should read this and think to themselves either, "Yes! That's exactly what I want to learn; this teacher sounds rad!" or "She sounds great, but that's not really the style of music I'm looking to pursue."

Similar to your biography, don't be afraid to use the rich-text editor.

Instructor Profile > Lesson Categories

Please only select what you are an expert in teaching.  We've seen that prospective students tend to be a bit turned off by teachers that advertise being able to teach all instruments.

If you include link to a YouTube video into your profile, it will take the place of your photo onto your instructor page. You just need to copy and paste the url from the YouTube video into the Video box. Be mindful of the first frame of your video since it will show up on your profile page.

Learn more about selecting the perfect photo and video.
 

Personal & Financial Info

2. Full Name
You can update your displayed name here if you prefer to have a different or stage name. You can change this at any time.