Creating your first class

Creating your first class

Through Adozi your students can discover, book, and pay for individual lessons of classes you define. When you create a class you are disclosing to the student how much your time is worth, what (if any) means they have to cancel, what your availability to instruct is, and what sort of activities you will cover during your lesson with them. Classes are created by the individual instructors responsible for teaching lessons of that class.

Getting ready

To follow this guide you must:
  1. Be logged into Adozi as an instructor.
We recommend that:
  1. The owner of the school has linked a bank account to enable credit card payments.
During this process you will need the following information:
  1. Class name.
  2. Class description.
  3. Photo for a gallery (recommended).
  4. Understanding of the length of the class, any warmup time you might need.
  5. Price per lesson.
  6. Understanding of your availability to teach lessons for this class.
  7. What your cancellation policy is.

Creating a class

  1. Navigate to the "Organization" page.
  2. Select "Classes."
  3. Press "+" to create a new class.

Basic Fields

  1. Enter the title of your class, what you think will best delineate this class from any other classes you will offer. As an example you may be a French language tutor offering 1 or 2 hours classes, so "1hr French Lessons" or "2 hr French Lessons." Alternatively a physical trainer offering an outdoor cross-fit lesson or a indoor weight training lesson.
  2. Provide a brief description detailing any additional information that seems relevant, location, required material, etc.
  3. We have found that students are much more likely to book a lesson when class listings include real images of what they can expect. Select "Gallery" to upload up to 10 images from your device.
  4. To associate your lesson with a specific genre of instruction, such as language, select "Tags" to find appropriate descriptive words. This will enable new students to easily find your class by searching for what they want to learn. If a tag does not exist, but you think it should, type in the world and select "create tag" and Adozi will review it for suitability.
  5. Lesson can take place in 15 minute increments, the "Duration" field allows you to select the length of the individual lesson. 
  6. Sometime lessons require preparation time, defining "Warm-up Time" will block out a set amount of time before each lesson. When a student books a lesson they will be blocking off the lesson "Duration" and "Warm-up Time" on your calendar.
  7. Price per lesson. Immediately below this field is show "After Processing Fees" indicating how much money will be received after credit card processing and Adozi fees.
  8. If this is your first class created or you wish this class to be the only used for "Instant Lesson" functionality, toggle this button to blue.

Availability

Lessons for a class can be booked by a student during hours of availability determined by you. Availability is defined per class, rather than universally, to accommodate instructors who wish to have more control over their instructional schedule. For example a surfing instructor that has access to paddle boards on Friday but surfboards on Saturday, thus paddle boarding lessons are only taught on Friday and surfboarding lessons are only taught on Saturday.

Simple schedule

Adozi supports both simple and complex schedule programming. Simple scheduling allows you to define one block of availability per day, or any combination of days. The default values are 9am to 6pm Monday to Friday for a class. To define class availability:
  1. Utilizing the day selection buttons, M for Monday, T for Tuesday, etc. select what days you will be available to instruct this class. Selected days will remain blue.

  2. Select what time you want to edit. Available selection are the start time (left) or the end time (right).
  3. Within 15 minute intervals, select the time, AM or PM. The times selected here will be applied to each selected day.

Complex Schedule

Complex scheduling provides allows the instructor to define multiple blocks of instruction each day. Introducing a lunch break, or making the class available Monday morning and Thursday afternoon.
  1. When switching to complex scheduling, any rules defined in the Simplex scheduling process will be imported. It can be convenient to establish a recurring schedule block in Simple scheduling, then switch to Complex scheduling.
  2. First and foremost you can select what day you want to edit. In Complex scheduling you may only edit one day at a time, shown as a blue circle. Any days that have scheduled availability on it will be displayed with an underline.
  3. In addition to the functionality available with the Simple scheduling tool, you now have the ability to add (blue plus button on bottom) and delete (red X button on right) availability blocks. As with Simple scheduling, elect the beginning or end of a time block to edit that time. Remember modifications to your schedule here will not affect class availability on other days of the week.

Booking Rules

This section allows you to describe your cancellation and payment terms with your students.
  1. Auto-confirm toggle: When this toggle is selected students can reserve a lesson (your time) and pay automatically. When this toggle has not been selected the instructor must confirm every time a student wants a lesson of this class.
  2. Payment method: Select how you will allow students to pay for this class. Credit only, Cash & Credit, or Cash only. If Cash only is selected the options related to student cancellation cannot be enforced through Adozi. 
  3. With Advanced booking you are defining how far out in advance a student can book a lesson of this class with you. Default options are 1, 2, 4, and 6 weeks.
  4. Create (or don't) a Late cancellation penalty by defining how long before a scheduled lesson a student can cancel without incurring a penalty. Options are None, 1 day prior, 2, days prior, 1 week prior, 2 weeks prior.
  5. Late cancel penalty: defines the fee, as a percentage, the student will be charged for cancelling during the Late cancellation period. Options are none, 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% of the full value.
  6. Purchase protection allows you to define a period after a student books a class, but before their credit card is charged, allowing a full refund without any processing fees. This is very useful to prevent "oops." Adozi does verify the card is capable of being processed, but will wait the selected period before charging the card. Availabile options are: No protection, 1 hour, 8 hours, and 24 hours.

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