SONIA

SONIA is the software system that is used by United States University to record the 600 hours of teacher experience obtained during student teaching. When you start your program or student teaching, you will receive an email that gives you login information.

Each week, student teachers will go into SONIA at https://usuniversitycoe.sonialive.com and record their hours. We recommend student teachers do this at the end of the day on Friday. Generally speaking, student teachers should be working 40 hours per week for the full 16 weeks, which would allow them to reach the 600-hour goal. When a student teacher logs in to SONIA, they need to navigate to the “Time Sheet” section. Once the student teacher submits the hours, the hours go to the University Supervisor’s SONIA page for approvals. The student teacher’s hours are not recorded until the University Supervisor approves them. Student teacher hours audits are performed regularly by the COE Office of Educational Placements and Partnerships so you will always be kept abreast of where you stand in regard to meeting hours requirements for your teaching credential.

If you ever have any questions/concerns/issues related to SONIA please contact OEPP@usuniversity.edu. If Sonia is not opening, try the steps on this article: Sonia will not open (lumivero.com).