You can highlight your team's expertise, such as their educational background, professional milestones, and years of experience, directly on their profiles using the Bio field.
How to Add or Edit a Bio (Administrators)
Navigate to Employees → Employee List.
Click on the Edit button of the teacher or staff member you want to update.
Click on the "Profile" tab.
Scroll down to the Bio text field, enter the information, and click Save.
The Bio Approval Workflow
To ensure quality control and branding consistency, Teachworks includes an approval system for employees who manage their own profiles.
Teachers can log into their portals and edit their own bios at any time. However, their updates will not immediately go live. Instead, Teachworks saves two separate versions of the profile:
The Live Bio: The original text that remains visible to clients and administrators.
The Draft Bio: The new text submitted by the teacher, awaiting administrative review.
How to Approve a Teacher's Draft Bio
If a teacher has submitted a new bio draft, an administrator (or a staff member with the appropriate permissions) must manually approve it:
Go to the relevant employee's profile and click Edit.
Scroll down to the Bio section. You will see the teacher's proposed changes displayed there.
Check the Approve Draft checkbox.
Click Save at the bottom of the form.
NOTE: When an admin views an employee's profile or a teacher views their own profile that has a pending bio, it will be displayed in addition to the current bio until it has been approved by an admin.
Website Booking Plugin
If you use the Website Booking Plugin and you have the “Book a Lesson” option available, you can display teacher bios to give prospective clients more information about your teachers.
In order to enable teacher bios, please follow the steps below:
Click on "Account" and then click on “Integrations & Add-Ons”.
Use the "Search" field at the top and enter "Website Booking Plugin".
Click on “Settings”.
On Step 1 (General Settings) you will find a section called “Teacher List Settings”.
Select the bio checkbox.
Submit the form to save your changes.
In the booking add-on, the Bio is shortened, and clients can click on "More" to see the full bio as follows:
Updating Bios in Bulk
The import template for teachers and staff includes a bio column, allowing you to update employee bios in bulk. This article has more information.