TUTORING, WRITING LAB, & ACT SAT PREP
HOW TO USE: Tutor.com with WA Online
Open the Tab in Your Course(s)
1.
GETTING STARTED
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SUBMIT A PAPER
TO THE WRITING REVIEW
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ONLINE CLASSROOM
4.
SKILLS CENTER
5.
ACT/SAT Prep
FAQs
Tutor.com by the Princeton Review
Tutor.com is a trusted and reliable academic partner that’s been helping students for more than 20 years. Since our inception in 1998 we’ve delivered over 20 million tutoring sessions – more than any other provider – and currently provide our award-winning services to hundreds of schools and thousands of students nationwide.
Who are the tutors?
Tutor.com takes great care in selecting and supporting its tutors. We understand that the service we provide is representative of the Academic Curriculum and must reflect your standards for exceptional service. To that end, our greatest investment is in our tutors. Here are the components of our tutor selection and management process:
Qualifications: Tutor.com K-12 tutors must have a four-year degree or be enrolled in a four-year accredited institution, and/or, for our technology and computer science subjects, have qualifying certifications. Many have advanced degrees and many are faculty members, adjuncts, or teachers, or are employed in the fields for which they tutor.
Subject expertise: Tutor.com invokes a stringent vetting process to ensure that our tutors meet our standards for effective tutoring. This multi-step process begins with a rigorous timed subject exam for which the minimum passing score is 80 percent or higher. Only about 30 percent of those who submit an initial application pass an exam for a subject we are staffing.
Interviews and reviews: Applicants meeting our minimum education requirements and passing our subject exams then participate in an in-depth interview and introduction to Tutor.com. The process includes gaining experience in our online classroom, a review of our expectations, and a thorough explanation of our pedagogy and methodologies, all led by our expert facilitators, who have vast tutoring experience themselves.
Background check: Upon completion of the interview and introduction, Tutor.com conducts an extensive third-party background check. All tutors must satisfactorily pass this, which includes a multi-tiered criminal history check and education verification. A criminal background check is repeated periodically for all active U.S. tutors. Less than two percent of applicants who register on our website to tutor pass all the benchmarks to become a tutor with Tutor.com.
Ongoing monitoring: The quality of our tutoring is a key component of our success. Once a tutor has been selected, he or she is assigned to a quality specialist (QS). The QS reviews the tutor’s sessions on a regular basis, providing constructive feedback and helpful resources while also tracking performance. The quality reviews are supplemented by several other quality assurance systems such as student comment reviews and automated transcript reviews. New tutors (those within their first 30-60 days) receive quality reviews, on average, every 7-10 days. More advanced tutors also receive regular feedback from their QS on an ongoing basis.
Resources: In addition to the above, we also provide our tutors with an extensive resource center containing videos, articles, and documents ranging from tutoring techniques to subject-specific resources. These resources are constantly updated to reflect changing practices and newly developed subjects. We also provide our tutors with a monthly
How do I access tutoring?
Students can access tutoring, writing lab, and ACT/SAT Prep via the online platform. Through a single sign-on, students will never need to create an account or log-in to any additional platforms to receive their tutoring services.
What if I really like working with a certain tutor?
You can access a tutor 24/7, 365 days a year. However, if there is a particular tutor you enjoy working with, you can schedule a time and date to meet with them in advance.
How will I interact with the tutor?
Synchronous and Asynchronous
On-demand and scheduled support: For synchronous support in every subject available, students can access on-demand tutoring through their portals within seconds of a request. When scheduling a session, students view tutor calendars to determine availability.
Asynchronous support: Students can also access asynchronous support through their portals. They begin by filling out a quick questionnaire on their needs, then submit their essay, math problem, etc. From there, turnaround time is 24 hours.
The Tutoring Process
All instruction is provided by our 3,000+ expert tutors We ensure rapid availability by analyzing previous data, tracking system usage in real time, and staffing accordingly. Each one-to-one session is tailored to the student’s needs, level of proficiency, and unique learning style, which can vary significantly. Our tutors understand how to engage students at any level, make concepts easy to understand, and instill the confidence needed to persist and succeed. When a student demonstrates proficiency, the tutor brings the session to an educationally sound conclusion.
All sessions are recorded and archived and immediately accessible for review by you and your students. This lets students replay sessions at any time and enables quality control.
Writing Help Tutor.com offers multiple options for students who need help with writing: synchronous 1-to-1 sessions, Drop-off Essay Reviews,
Writing Projects, and the Writing Resource Center. With synchronous support, the paper is shared with a tutor in our online classroom. The tutor and student work together in real time, communicating via the chat function or voice feature. The tutor saves changes as they are made and, at the session’s end, sends the revised document back to the student.
This process enables tutors to walk students through suggested improvements, confirm their understanding of concepts, and guide the student to improve in weaker areas. The goal is to produce writing that is appropriate to the task, purpose, and reader.
With asynchronous support, your students can upload papers for critique to our Writing Center and receive feedback. (As noted above, the current turnaround time is within 24 hours.) Along with the document, they’re asked to provide a summary of their goals, the assignment instructions, the citation format they’re using (if applicable), and how far along they are in the writing process.
Our tutors then provide feedback that consists of detailed comments and a summary of the document’s strengths and weaknesses. This focuses on both higher-order concerns (e.g., thesis, audience and purpose, organization, and development) and lower-order concerns (e.g., grammar, syntax, and citations). Tutors also recommend next steps and any relevant resources.
Are the sessions recorded?
Yes. All sessions are recorded and stored, and these recordings are avaialble to be re-watched by the student.
Privacy Policy & Terms of Service - read before use
For Tutor.com Users, their updated Terms can be found below. All students who utilize the Tutor.com service through WA Online are bound to its Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and all students agree to review the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy before using the service.