Faculty onboarding

This guide walks faculty from first account creation through a running term on SOL.

Live app: https://www.strat-ops.net/learning

SOL is invite-only at most institutions. New accounts start as students. After we verify your school affiliation, we promote you to professor.

The teaching loop

Once you can sign in as faculty, the intended path is:

1. Join your section(s) with a faculty enrolment code
2. Upload materials (syllabus, notes, slides) under Materials
3. Author a draft course from those materials (lessons, practice, quizzes)
4. Review and release only what you approve
5. Share the learner enrolment code with students
6. Teach with the course tutor, assessments, Attention queue, and analytics

Grading is one pillar of that loop, not the whole product. See About SOL.

At a glance

Optional later: connect an AI agent via Agent Access (see Agent Access).

Before you start

Have ready:

• Your institutional email
• Course / section names for this term
• A way to reach your SOL admin or operations contact

You do not create the course catalog yourself. Admins create courses and sections; you join with a faculty code.

Step 1: Create your account (school email)

1. Open https://www.strat-ops.net/learning
2. Choose Sign up (or /learning/signup)
3. Register with your school email when possible
4. Complete verification if prompted, then sign in at /learning/login

Right after sign-in

New accounts are Student by default. Until we promote you:

• You land on the student dashboard
• You will not see Faculty sidebar items yet

Do not enroll in sections as a student while waiting. Wait for the role change.

Step 2: Notify us for verification

Tell your SOL admin (or operations contact) that you need professor access. Include:

• Full name
• School email on the account
• Institution / department
• Courses and sections for this term
• Preferred start date / term

If your institution already has a SOL admin, they can promote you from Dashboard → People without an external ticket.

Step 3: Role set to Professor

After promotion:

1. Sign out and sign back in (or hard-refresh)
2. You should land on the Faculty dashboard
3. Sidebar includes Overview, Sections, Materials, Authoring, Assignments, Attention, Analytics, Agent Access (labels may vary slightly by release)

If you still see the student dashboard, confirm the admin changed the correct email account.

Step 4: Receive faculty enrolment codes

An administrator provisions the course and sections. Each section has:

• Faculty enrolment code: for professors / TAs to join as teachers
• Learner enrolment code: for students

Keep faculty codes private.

Step 5: Join your sections

1. Open Faculty → Overview
2. Enter the Faculty enrolment code under Add a section
3. Confirm the section under My Sections

Repeat for every section you teach. From the section page you can copy the learner code for students.

Step 6: Materials, authoring, and release

This is the core of SOL as a teaching layer:

1. Open Materials for the course. Upload files or add allowed URLs. Wait until status is Ready.
2. Open Authoring. Generate a draft outline from materials. Refine in chat.
3. Publish (inactive) creates hidden lessons / quizzes / discussions for your sections.
4. Release makes them visible to enrolled students.

Details: Course materials and Authoring from materials.

You can still compose quizzes by hand under Assignments → New quiz when you prefer.

Step 7: Enroll students

Students do not get in-app email invites. Share the learner code out of band (syllabus, LMS announcement, slide).

1. Copy the Learner enrolment code from the section page
2. Tell students to sign in and enter that code on their dashboard
3. Point them at Student getting started

Check the roster on the section page. If someone cannot join, confirm they used the learner code, not the faculty code.

Step 8: Teach day-to-day

SOL drafts and scores. You stay the grader of record. See Grading and Attention.

Optional: Agent Access

Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or similar via MCP under Agent Access. See Agent Access.

Checklist

• Signed up with school email
• Role confirmed as Professor
• Joined each section with a faculty code
• Uploaded materials and waited for Ready
• Authored and released at least one lesson or quiz
• Shared learner enrolment code with students
• Confirmed at least one student on the roster
• Know where Attention, Gradebook, and Analytics live
• (Optional) Set up Agent Access

Troubleshooting

Related guides

• About SOL
• Course materials
• Authoring from materials
• Grading and Attention
• Course analytics
• Agent Access
• Student getting started