Quick Start Guide
Choose the right role, finish setup, and jump into the correct Locuto.PRO guide.
Who this is for
New Locuto.PRO users who want the fastest path from sign-up to the right documentation.
What this page answers
- Which role should I choose?
- What should I configure first?
- Which guide should I read next?
1. Choose the correct role
| Role | Choose this if you... | Go next |
|---|---|---|
| Student | are learning with a teacher or school | Student Getting Started |
| Teacher | create courses, teach lessons, and work with students | School Getting Started |
| Owner or Operations admin | run a school, manage teachers, and control billing | Organization Setup |
Picking the wrong one is not a dead end. Your role belongs to your membership of a school, not to your account, so it can be changed — a school's Owner or Operations admin can change yours from My School → Team. The same account can also be a student in one school and a teacher in another. Do not register a second account to fix a wrong role; ask whoever runs the school. See School roles & permissions.
No invite code, and no teacher yet? On locuto.pro when not yet enrolled in a class, click Find a teacher on your Today start card (or open /teachers). See Finding a teacher.
2. Finish the required profile setup
Every new account should complete registration and onboarding first. Signing up as a student is completely free and requires no credit card. Google sign-up is the recommended path for most users (see Continue with Google); email sign-up is also available and requires email confirmation (see Register with email).
After that, complete these basics:
- set your timezone
- choose your interface language (10 languages available — see Account Registration and Onboarding)
- add your name and profile photo
Role-specific setup comes after that:
- Students join a course or request enrollment
- Teachers add teaching languages (including a wide range of newly supported high-demand languages), profile details, and mark their weekly Booking hours directly on the calendar on
/platform/schedule(see Availability Schedule) - Owners create the organization, set default costs, and invite teachers
Staff Workspace Navigation
The staff interface is organized into a clean, light register workspace:
- Full-width top bar: Anchors the top of the interface, hosting your school logo, the yellow AI Credit balance pill (hover to check balance and payment card status; click to purchase credits), language switcher, notifications, and profile menu.
- Fixed 88 px labelled left navigation rail: Every destination displays its icon stacked directly above its text label. No hover-expand drawer is needed, and on shorter screens, spacing tightens automatically so every item fits.
- Top-Level Rail Destinations:
- Main group:
- Today (
/platform) — your daily teaching dashboard and agenda - Materials (
/platform/materials) — courses, starters, and lesson libraries - Classes (
/platform/groups) — cohorts, class programs, and group learning - Students (
/platform/students) — school learner roster organized into four status sections - Schedule (
/platform/schedule) — calendar, weekly booking hours, and live rooms - Journal (
/platform/workspace) — operational teaching journal (formerly My workspace) with a live lesson strip, actionable "To do" queues (unended rooms, missed lessons, missing homework, and pending checks), Past lessons, Upcoming lessons, and Homework tracking - Instant Lesson — launch an immediate live teaching room
- Today (
- School menu: Opens a dedicated side menu beside the rail for school leadership, containing Team, Analytics, Accounting, School usage, Marketplace sales, Communications, Recordings, Certificates, Goals, and School settings.
- Messages (
/platform/messages): Dedicated top-level rail item with an unread badge sitting directly above More, providing access to pinned Class Chats, individual Direct messages, and incoming catalog class booking cards. - More menu: Opens a side menu beside the rail for Billing, Generation History, Vocabulary, Learn Words, Marketplace, Profile, and Help.
- Rail Footer: Hosts the School tools switch, allowing Academic leads, Operations admins, and Owners to toggle between School and Solo workspace views.
- Main group:
3. Do the first useful action for your role
| Role | First action |
|---|---|
| Student | Join your first course and open your first lesson |
| Teacher | Create your first course and open a lesson in the Lex Editor |
| Owner or Operations admin | Configure billing defaults and invite your first teacher |
4. Continue in the right guide
Student Guide
Join courses, complete lessons, attend live sessions, and manage your account.
School Guide
Create courses, build lessons, manage students, and run live teaching.
School Management
Set up your school, onboard teachers, manage billing, and review analytics.
Lex Editor & AI
Learn the editor, interactive widgets, media tools, and AI-assisted lesson building.
5. Ask the Help Assistant when you are stuck
Open the Help Assistant from the platform when you need a quick answer without browsing every guide. It uses your question and role context to explain the next step in an answer tailored to whether you're a student or teacher, then links to the documentation pages it used.
Ask about the action you want to complete, for example: "I am a teacher. How do I add a pronunciation exercise to a lesson?"
Common reference pages
- Help Assistant for answers tailored to whether you're a student or teacher with documentation sources
- Glossary for shared product terms
- Locuto.PRO Documentation for the full documentation home