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How to Log In

Student Login

1. Select Student as your role.
2. Enter your AUT username and password.
3. Click Sign in.

Evaluative Lecturer Login

1. Select Evaluative Lecturer as your role.
2. Enter your Sonia username (em# or AUT username) and password (default = firstinitiallastname).
3. Click Sign in.

• Pre-Practicum Information Form
  Go to: Sonia → Forms
• View your Practicum Placement
  Go to: Sonia → Practicums → Details
• Report a Practicum Absence
  Go to: Sonia → Forms → select the correct Practicum Absence Form → Add → Edit → Submit

For Evaluative Lecturers: Exporting a Student List CSV

A student list CSV may be needed for the Primary post-allocation planning tool.

1. Log in to Sonia Online as an Evaluative Lecturer.
2. Go to Students.
3. Use the student list showing your allocated students.
4. Select Export to CSV.
5. In the blue toolbar, click the small document icon labelled CSV. This icon is near the PDF and Word export icons. Do not use the Excel, PDF or Word icons for the post-allocation tool.
6. Save the downloaded .csv file and upload that file into the post-allocation planning tool.

Tip: If the file opens in Excel, close it without changing the file type. The post-allocation tool needs the original CSV export.

Practicum Absence Form

If you are absent from practicum, you must record your absence using the appropriate form in Sonia Online.

Go to: Sonia → Forms → select the correct Practicum Absence Form → Add → Edit → Submit

Use the form to report any practicum absence. You must also notify your Associate Teacher by phone or email as soon as possible and, where possible, before your expected arrival time.

If your absence affects a planned Evaluative Lecturer visit, you must also notify your Evaluative Lecturer.

Medical certificate: If you are absent for 3 or more consecutive practicum days, you must provide a medical certificate or doctor's note with your absence form.

Make-up days: All practicum absences are reviewed. You may be contacted for further information and may be required to make up practicum days missed due to absence.

Submitting the correct Sonia absence form is the official notification of your absence to the AUT Practicum Team. You do not normally need to email the Practicum Team separately.

MTL/PGDipTL – Primary Programme (Semester 2, 2026)

• EDPT803 Practicum 2: 17 Aug – 30 Oct 2026
  No practicum during the AUT mid-semester break: 28 Sep – 9 Oct. No practicum on Labour Day: 26 Oct.

Bachelor of Education (Primary) – Semester 2, 2026

• EDPT503 Practicum: 24 Aug – 18 Sep 2026
• EDPT604 Practicum: 24 Aug – 18 Sep 2026
• EDPT705 Practicum: 24 Aug – 25 Sep 2026

BEd Semester 2 practicum dates finish before the AUT mid-semester break. EDPT803 continues after the mid-semester break.