HOW TO USE THIS SITE

Find the right SOLAS guide

Use these guides to understand the main SOLAS features, including membership, CPD, learning, events, jobs, advertising, payments, and account tools.

Choose the topic that matches what you want to do, then follow the relevant steps.

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Select the topic that best matches what you need. Each guide explains the relevant feature, where to find it, and what to do next.

Logging In Understand normal login, passwordless email login, and what to do if your login email does not arrive. Your Account Manage your profile, contact details, addresses, and membership-facing account tools. Membership Status Understand the difference between active members, students, and former members, and why account options can change. CPD Track your CPD progress, add records, review courses, and understand certificates. Learning & Courses Use My Learning, understand lesson screens, video gates, quiz availability, and current/grace/older-cycle CPD wording. Events Browse events, submit member events, and understand ticketed or commercial listings. Friends of SOLAS speakers Manage your speaker profile, availability, and open speaking opportunities through the dedicated Friends of SOLAS speaker area. Events, Attendance & CPD Understand the difference between booking an event, attending it, and seeing CPD appear in your totals. Tickets & Attendee Details Review ticket information, complete attendee details, and understand how ticket follow-up links work. Jobs Create resumes, apply for roles, and manage your candidate activity. Advertising Book advertising through the guided form and manage active advert campaigns. Orders & Payments Understand how purchases sit behind memberships, jobs, adverts, and tickets, and what order status means. Subscriptions & Renewals Understand fixed-term SOLAS renewals, manual renewal subscriptions, and what renewal dates mean on your account. Downloads Find governance files, annual accounts, branch minutes, certificates, and other documents made available to your account. My SOLAS Dashboard Understand the main dashboard sections, what matters now, and how the account chooses the next actions it shows you. Directory & Privacy Controls Control how your profile appears in member and committee directory views and understand what stays private. Referrer Confirmation Understand what happens when a membership application includes a professional referrer and how the confirmation step works. Common Problems Quick help for missing CPD, missing certificates, lesson video issues, login trouble, and delayed access changes. Typical Journeys Follow common journeys for students, members, job applicants, employers, event users, and advertisers.

CPD

Track your CPD progress, add records, review courses, and understand certificates.

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CPD

What this area is for

Use the CPD area to review your progress through the current cycle and keep your record up to date.

Main features

  • view your current CPD summary in My CPD
  • add structured CPD
  • add unstructured CPD
  • review SOLAS-delivered learning
  • check whether you are on track to complete the cycle
  • view certificates in My Certificates when a cycle is complete

The **Certificates** menu entry remains hidden until at least one cycle has a certificate available. Current progress and incomplete cycles remain in **CPD**, avoiding an empty account page.

Good to know

  • only approved records count toward your totals
  • SOLAS-delivered structured learning may be awarded through live attendance, Microsoft Teams imports, or a linked LearnDash recording, with duplicate protection applied where those paths refer to the same SOLAS event
  • current-cycle and grace-period SOLAS CPD learning can count toward the structured SOLAS-delivered minimum
  • older SOLAS CPD learning can still be completed, but it is recorded as unstructured SOLAS-delivered CPD and does not reduce the current 2-hour SOLAS-delivered structured requirement
  • if SOLAS has already recorded your attendance at the live Teams event, the linked lesson may be marked complete and you should not be repeatedly prompted to complete the knowledge check for that same record
  • after a live event, recording lesson, or course completion, SOLAS may also show a pending feedback prompt in My CPD or My Learning
  • if something is missing or incorrect, you can submit a correction request
  • where a CPD form asks for evidence, it is kept private and can be accessed only through your authorised SOLAS account; do not rely on an old upload link being public

Honorary and Retired members

Honorary and Retired members can use My CPD and may receive a CPD-cycle update, but they are exempt from the CPD target. They do not need to complete a minimum number of hours, and their CPD record does not affect membership or automatic renewal. Recording CPD remains entirely optional.

Best next step

Open My CPD, review your current totals, then add any missing activity before the cycle deadline.

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