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.
Downloads
Find governance files, annual accounts, branch minutes, certificates, and other documents made available to your account.
Downloads
What this area is for
Use Downloads to find files that SOLAS has made available to your account.
This can include:
- governance documents
- annual accounts
- branch minutes
- committee papers
- student branch guidance
- other downloadable files linked to your purchases or member services
How to use it
- Open My Account.
- Select Downloads.
- Look through the grouped sections.
- Open the file you need, or use the full document dashboard if you want the wider governance view.
What you may see
The Downloads area may group files into sections such as:
- annual accounts
- branch minutes
- committee papers
- governance documents
Some items may also show:
- a count pill on the group
- a
Newbadge on recently published items
Why a file may be missing
You may not see a document if:
- your membership is not current
- the document is limited to a different branch
- the document is limited to a committee you are not part of
- the document is intended for students only or members only
- SOLAS has not published it yet
Document dashboard
The Downloads screen also links to the full document dashboard, which gives a broader view of the governance documents available to your account.
Good to know
- some student documents use the branch context derived from exam-location checkout choices
- branch and committee restrictions still apply even when the file appears in a general document area
- governance downloads are intentionally controlled and may not behave like ordinary public media files
