# Student guide > How to book, pay for and follow your lessons on a teacher's Aula site. Your teacher or school has its own Aula site. You use it to book lessons, join them, message your teacher, do homework and practise vocabulary. This guide is the same for every site. ## Create your account [#create-your-account] Use the address your teacher sent you, for example `ana.aula.sferarc.com`. The Help link in the footer opens this guide; a teacher on the Pro plan can remove it along with the Aula footer, in which case ask your teacher for the link. Choose **Sign in** in the header, then **Create an account**. You need a name, an email address and a password. If the page offers **Continue with Google** or **Continue with Apple**, you can use that account instead. On a site with its own domain, signing in this way passes through the site's address under `aula.sferarc.com` and asks you to **Continue to** the site's domain, so you choose where your account signs in. The account works on your teacher's site. Teachers you book with can see your name, email, time zone, lessons, homework, vocabulary, progress, credits and plans, and the site's owners and admins can see every student. Messages stay between you and your teacher unless one of you reports one; the site's owners and admins, and possibly Aula, then see a copy. Open a teacher's profile or lesson and choose a time. See [Booking a lesson](/docs/students/booking). ## Your student area [#your-student-area] After you sign in, **My lessons** in the header opens your student area. It has these sections: Upcoming and past lessons, and the join button. What to do and what you handed in. Words to practise, with spaced repetition. Your lessons, homework and vocabulary in one place. Packages and monthly plans. Write to your teacher. **Home**, the first section, brings them together for the learner you are acting as: lessons and class meetings from now to the end of the seventh day after today, the next one marked, each with its room and centre or the word Online; homework still to hand in, soonest due first; how many messages you have not read; and how many lessons you attended and missed, with the latest three. When you act as yourself, it also shows this month's class fees and your direct debit, as the family home does. A parent switched to a child sees only that child's week and homework, never the fees. The **Account** page holds your settings. See [Your account](/docs/students/account). Something not right in a conversation? See [Reporting and blocking](/docs/students/reporting-and-blocking).