--- title: Co-teaching a class or giving a substitute access description: Only your school or district admin can add a second teacher or a substitute to a class. Teachers can't add each other. Don't know who your admin is? --- [Skip to content](https://support.orilearning.com/knowledge/co-teaching-a-class#main-content) [![logo (1)-1](https://support.orilearning.com/hs-fs/hubfs/logo%20(1)-1.png?width=100&height=95&name=logo%20(1)-1.png)](https://orilearning.com/) - [Contact Us](https://support.orilearning.com/open-a-support-ticket) - [Ori Learning Website](https://orilearning.com/) Open main navigation Close main navigation - [Contact Us](https://support.orilearning.com/open-a-support-ticket) - [Ori Learning Website](https://orilearning.com/) - [Contact us](https://support.orilearning.com/open-a-support-ticket) [Contact us](https://support.orilearning.com/open-a-support-ticket?hsLang=en) How can we help? - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. 1. 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If you co-teach a class and don't see a colleague's session under 'Sessions', look for its results in the course's 'Progress' tab. ### What a co-teacher can't see Lesson sessions belong to the teacher who started them. A co-teacher or substitute on the same class doesn't see another teacher's sessions on their 'Sessions' page and can't open, change, end or delete them; opening another teacher's session link shows **Oops, something unexpected went wrong... please try again.** To teach the same lesson, they start their own session. Course assignments work differently: they belong to the student, not to the teacher who made them. Every teacher of the student's class sees them in the course's 'Progress' view. If two teachers assign the same course to a student, the student still has one assignment, with the most recent teacher's settings. ### If you can't see the class at all If a class you co-teach doesn't appear for you at all, you haven't been added to it in Ori yet. Ask your school or district admin to add you. If your district rosters with Clever or ClassLink, class teachers come from the sync. If you're listed on the class there but don't see it in Ori, the section may not be shared with Ori yet, or the next sync hasn't run. Ask your district's Clever or ClassLink contact, or send us a request and we'll help check. ### Giving a substitute access For a substitute, ask your school or district admin to add them to the class as a teacher. The substitute then starts their own session for the lesson; they can't run one you set up. If that isn't possible in time, you can print the lesson for the substitute to teach from. Your admin's steps are in [Managing classes](https://support.orilearning.com/knowledge/managing-classes?hsLang=en). #### If you're the substitute You need a class with students in it before you can assign anything. Without one, you can preview lessons but not assign or share them. ### Still need help? 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