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You can add your first student and their weekly session from the Setup guide, with a single button.

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Add your first student

  1. Open the Setup guide. It opens by itself when you finish the 4 sign-up questions and click Submit. To come back to it, use the Setup guide button in the top bar.
  2. In Student name, type their name (50 characters max). The course gets the same name.
  3. In Day, choose the day of the week, Monday to Sunday. It’s pre-filled with tomorrow’s weekday.
  4. In Time, type the time or pick it from the list. It’s pre-filled with 10:00am.
  5. Click Add to my calendar. You’ll see your Calendar with the new session.
Add your first student card with the fields Student name, Day, Time and the Add to my calendar button

Setup guide card. The blue numbers are steps 2 and 5.

With that click, SmartCookie creates:
  • A course named after the student, of type 1 to 1 lessons. It’s private.
  • The student, with only a name.
  • A 60-minute session that repeats every week, with no end date. It starts the next time that day and hour comes (if today is that day and the hour has passed, it starts next week).
The session uses your time zone. If something fails, click the button again: the course isn’t created twice. After that, the other cards of the guide appear, the ones you haven’t done or skipped.

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What example your account comes with

When you finish the sign-up questions, SmartCookie adds an example so your calendar isn’t empty, if you don’t have any course yet.
  • By default: the course 1-on-1 class (example) with the student Lucía (example), and a 60-minute session every week, starting tomorrow at 6:00pm.
  • If you signed up from a SmartCookie guide about academies: the group course Conversation group (example) with Lucía (example), Marco (example) and Sara (example).
  • If you signed up from a guide about prices and getting paid: Lucía also has a pack, 10-class pack (10 sessions).
Example students have no email or phone: they never get emails or reminders. The course takes no online bookings.
The example doesn’t count as your first session in the Setup guide.

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Delete the example

  1. In the left menu, open Courses and go into the example course.
  2. At the top right, click the trash button (Delete course).
  3. In the window, click Delete course. The course and its sessions are deleted.
The example students stay in Students. To delete them, follow Delete a student.

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Your starting availability

When you finish the sign-up questions, your account gets availability from Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm, if you had no availability saved yet. Saturday and Sunday have no hours. To change it, follow Set your availability.

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What you can’t do

  • You can’t create a group course from this card: it always creates 1 to 1 lessons. For a group course, follow Create a course.
  • You can’t change the duration or repetition from the card: the session always lasts 60 minutes and repeats every week. To change them, edit the session on the calendar with Edit or delete recurring sessions.
  • You can’t bring the example back after you delete it.
Last modified on November 9, 2026