Adding instructor bios

When you are creating an event, you have the option of associating an instructor or teacher bio with it.

In this article

• How instructor bios work
• How to add instructor bios
• How to share attendee data or class roster with instructors

How instructor bios work

Instructor bios are only for display purposes on your event pages. They inform potential attendees which instructor is teaching or facilitating the event and share some information about them if you fill out their bio.

Instructor bios are not any kind of instructor management or scheduling feature. They do not provide the named instructor with access to the associated event data unless you add them as a recipient to event notifications and/or add them as a user to your account in the appropriate role, as explained below.

How to add instructor bios

STEP 1: From your Corsizio dashboard, select Instructors from the top navigation menu. This is where you go to create new instructor bios and edit or delete existing ones.

STEP 2: Use the "+ New Instructor" option in the top right area to add a new profile.

STEP 3: A New Instructor screen will appear for you to fill out with the name, position/title, email, and bio of the instructor.

STEP 4: Be sure to Save & Exit the instructor bio before leaving this section.

STEP 5: Associate the instructor with their respective event to publicly display the instructor bio on the event page. To do this, go to Step 1 — Main Details when creating or editing the event. In the "Select Instructors" area, you will see a list of all the instructor bios you have added. Check the box of the person's name to associate the instructor with the event.

You can select as many instructor bios as will be associated with the event. If the instructor is already associated with an event in Corsizio that overlaps with another event's date and time, you will receive a warning message. This does not prevent you from associating them with the event and is for informational purposes only.

When you add an instructor bio and associate it with an event, this is what it will look like on the public event page:

How to share attendee data or class roster with instructors

OPTION 1: Add the instructor as a recipient of event notifications

Do this if you want the instructors to receive email notifications whenever there is a new attendee registration or feedback submission to an event they are associated with.

This is configured in Step 5 — Filters & Settings when creating or editing an event, and fully explained in the help doc Notification emails for instructors.

The instructor may be able to create their own class roster outside of Corsizio based on the data they receive from these email notifications of new registrations, which may be satisfactory for very small events.

OPTION 2: Provide the instructor with their class roster

If you need the instructor to see their class roster but do not want to add the instructor as a user on the account, you or another admin on the account can always export a list of their event attendees and provide it to them in a secure way of your choosing. For example, in person, by email, or via a messaging service you trust. To learn how to download a PDF or CSV file of the registrations for a specific event, please refer to the help doc: Export data out of Corsizio.

OPTION 3: Add the instructor as a user on your Corsizio account

Instructor bios are not the same as account users. Instructor bios do not give the named person any access to your account or its data, as shared above.

• You can make someone for whom you created an instructor bio to be an account user.
• Likewise, you can create an instructor bio for someone who is an account user.
• Account Users and Instructor Bios are completely independent of each other.

Therefore, if you need the instructor to see their class roster or access their event data, you need to add them as a user on your account in one of the possible user roles: admin, editor, facilitator, or viewer. This is fully explained in the help doc: Adding multiple users to an account.

Normally, you would assign an instructor with one of the lowest possible permission roles, such as facilitator or viewer. When adding such a user, you also have the option to "Hide the financial totals from view for this user".