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title: "Understanding Contract Instructor Pool"
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updated: 2024-09-27T16:58:35Z
published: 2024-09-27T16:58:35Z
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# Understanding Contract Instructor Pool

## Overview of Contract Instructor Pools

The Contract Instructor Pool is a feature allowing instructors to make themselves available to be contacted to teach Classes for interested Organizations. Instructors choose to opt in to be a contract instructor and Organizations opt in to use contract instructors. An organization looking for an instructor can view the instructor's name, email address, phone numbers, city, state, zip code, and country listed in instructor's User Profile. The organization cannot view the user profile but can pull this information using output options on the **Find Instructors** page.

## Best Practices for Using a Contract Instructor Pool

- The instructor can set which courses they are qualified to teach using **Instructor Competencies**. Organizations can use filters to look for instructors based on competencies from the **Find Instructors** page or when adding an instructor to a class from the **Choose Instructor** dialog.
- Contract instructors do not have access to an organization's courses, custom labs, or proprietary labs even when they are logged on to an organization's site. The contract instructor can only access and view the class they are scheduled to teach; they cannot see user accounts, courses, classes or any other data under the organization. They can only launch labs for a class after they are scheduled to teach it. Instructors can access the class and the class' Activities at any time after they are added as the instructor for the class in the Skillable TMS.
- We offer access to be a contract instructor and use of contract instructors as a convenience for all parties. We do not certify any instructors or verify their qualifications to teach a Course. All communication, scheduling, contracted rates and payment are the responsibility of the booking organization and the instructor.

A class is a scheduled instructor-led event with a start and end time/date. Typically, these include lectures and hands on activities such as labs.

An organization is assigned to each entity in the TMS, such as, users, classes, subscriptions, and courses. The organization is a basis to determine access given based on roles within the organization and management over the organization.

Organizations are the containers in which all objects in Skillable Studio reside. Each organization has two child orgs, Development and Production. Development is used for content creation and testing. Production is used only for content that is ready for consumption. Organizations also provide one of the security boundaries within the Skillable Studio platform.

The user profile contains information about the user and their preferences, including roles, managed organizations, and settings.

Activities are configured in the instructions editor and represented in the lab instructions by a replacement token. Activities fall into two broad categories: Questions and Automated.

- Questions are multiple choice or short answer questions.
- Automated Activities interact with the lab environment (Virtual Machine/Container/Cloud Platform).

Skillable's Training Management System. A learning management system designed to streamline the delivery, tracking, and reporting of your training programs.

Bundles together content to then be set up for training through classes, subscriptions, and course assignments. Courses can include labs, videos, SCORM, LTI, external links, assessments, and documents. Courses must be assigned to a Content Provider and a Publishing Group to be available to set up for training.