Quick guides for the main SOLAS features members, advertisers, and event submitters use most often.
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.
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
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 quiz for that same record
- if something is missing or incorrect, you can submit a correction request
Best next step
Open My CPD, review your current totals, then add any missing activity before the cycle deadline.
