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What are some of the best ways to help virtually tutor if you're younger than 16 years of age and get volunteer hours for it?
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Sumana the first step in tutoring virtually, is you'll want to get the technology right.
To become an online tutor you will want to find a platform that single-handedly manages all your business operations. Along with delivering learning online, you'll want a software program that offers you everything you need to tutor in a virtual environment, so you can also create courses, schedule, and launch as many concurrent classes as you want. Remember Sumana, when choosing the best virtual tutoring software for you, you need to understand the benefits of different virtual learning class types as well as the features of each product, so you can make a best decision.
FIVE VIRTUAL TUTORING SOFTWARE TOOLS
1.) Moodle • https://moodle.org/
Moodle is an open source solution that allows you to build their own e-learning website. It helps create self-paced or instructor-led courses that support blended as well as online learning. The tool’s drag-and-drop editor lets educators add learning resources (images, slideshow presentations, Word documents, etc.) via supported web browsers. Resources can also be uploaded from cloud storage platforms, such as Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive. The software allows you to create multiple choice questions, feedback surveys, and quizzes, among others. Tutors can add comments to the assignments uploaded by students and use chat rooms to connect with them in real time. They can also grade students based on performance in individual assignments and participation in group discussions.
2.) TalentLMS • https://www.talentlms.com/
TalentLMS is a cloud-based learning management system that helps offer a blended learning experience by supporting instructor-led, classroom, and recorded training sessions, among others. It can be integrated with video conferencing solutions, such as GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, GoToTraining, and Zoom, to deliver virtual tutoring. The software offers an assessment engine, which you can use to create a variety of test questions, including multiple-choice and fill-the-gap. Parameters such as the test duration, passing score, and order in which questions are to be answered can be added. The tool’s gamification feature lets educators add badges, leaderboards, rewards, points, etc. to recognize the performance of learners.
3.) newrow • https://www.newrow.com/virtual-classroom/
Newrow is a cloud-based learning management platform that helps conduct real-time virtual classes. Its free plan allows you to organize meetings with up to five participants. The key features of the free plan are screen sharing and recording and archiving of online sessions. It also offers an interactive digital whiteboard that can be used by both teachers and students. You can search for and play YouTube videos via the software during live sessions to boost engagement. The software also allows students to download the class notes, presentations, PDFs, documents, videos, and other learning resources shared by tutors.
myTutoring • https://mytutoring.co/
4.) myTutoring provides an easy-to-use online tutoring solution for tutors, tutoring institutes, schools, school districts, libraries and universities. Virtual classroom with integrated payment, discovery, and collaboration tools. myTutoring is a complete online tutoring platform that seamlessly integrates everything from discovery, scheduling, payments and collaboration for a tutoring business. myTutoring provides everything you need to start teaching online - branding, own logo, identity, tutor discovery, smart scheduling, ratings, reviews, browser-based audio-video collaboration, whiteboard tools, tutor analytics, tutor landing pages, seamless payments processing, admin dashboard and more.
5.) TutorBird • https://www.tutorbird.com/
TutorBird is a tutor management software for private tutors, tutoring centers and test prep centers. Manage your students, schedule, billing, online tutoring and much more. If you're looking for a solution that has everything all in one place and saves you time and money, then your search stops here. TutorBird was designed specifically for tutors. Discover why more tutors are choosing TutorBird. A FREE 30-day trial is available along with free unlimited phone & email support.
Virtual tutoring promises many exciting benefits for both individual tutors and tutored students. You can expand your reach, find new business and generate an additional revenue stream, which has the potential to become your primary business in the future as technology advances Sumana.
Hope this was Helpful Sumana
To become an online tutor you will want to find a platform that single-handedly manages all your business operations. Along with delivering learning online, you'll want a software program that offers you everything you need to tutor in a virtual environment, so you can also create courses, schedule, and launch as many concurrent classes as you want. Remember Sumana, when choosing the best virtual tutoring software for you, you need to understand the benefits of different virtual learning class types as well as the features of each product, so you can make a best decision.
FIVE VIRTUAL TUTORING SOFTWARE TOOLS
1.) Moodle • https://moodle.org/
Moodle is an open source solution that allows you to build their own e-learning website. It helps create self-paced or instructor-led courses that support blended as well as online learning. The tool’s drag-and-drop editor lets educators add learning resources (images, slideshow presentations, Word documents, etc.) via supported web browsers. Resources can also be uploaded from cloud storage platforms, such as Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive. The software allows you to create multiple choice questions, feedback surveys, and quizzes, among others. Tutors can add comments to the assignments uploaded by students and use chat rooms to connect with them in real time. They can also grade students based on performance in individual assignments and participation in group discussions.
2.) TalentLMS • https://www.talentlms.com/
TalentLMS is a cloud-based learning management system that helps offer a blended learning experience by supporting instructor-led, classroom, and recorded training sessions, among others. It can be integrated with video conferencing solutions, such as GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, GoToTraining, and Zoom, to deliver virtual tutoring. The software offers an assessment engine, which you can use to create a variety of test questions, including multiple-choice and fill-the-gap. Parameters such as the test duration, passing score, and order in which questions are to be answered can be added. The tool’s gamification feature lets educators add badges, leaderboards, rewards, points, etc. to recognize the performance of learners.
3.) newrow • https://www.newrow.com/virtual-classroom/
Newrow is a cloud-based learning management platform that helps conduct real-time virtual classes. Its free plan allows you to organize meetings with up to five participants. The key features of the free plan are screen sharing and recording and archiving of online sessions. It also offers an interactive digital whiteboard that can be used by both teachers and students. You can search for and play YouTube videos via the software during live sessions to boost engagement. The software also allows students to download the class notes, presentations, PDFs, documents, videos, and other learning resources shared by tutors.
myTutoring • https://mytutoring.co/
4.) myTutoring provides an easy-to-use online tutoring solution for tutors, tutoring institutes, schools, school districts, libraries and universities. Virtual classroom with integrated payment, discovery, and collaboration tools. myTutoring is a complete online tutoring platform that seamlessly integrates everything from discovery, scheduling, payments and collaboration for a tutoring business. myTutoring provides everything you need to start teaching online - branding, own logo, identity, tutor discovery, smart scheduling, ratings, reviews, browser-based audio-video collaboration, whiteboard tools, tutor analytics, tutor landing pages, seamless payments processing, admin dashboard and more.
5.) TutorBird • https://www.tutorbird.com/
TutorBird is a tutor management software for private tutors, tutoring centers and test prep centers. Manage your students, schedule, billing, online tutoring and much more. If you're looking for a solution that has everything all in one place and saves you time and money, then your search stops here. TutorBird was designed specifically for tutors. Discover why more tutors are choosing TutorBird. A FREE 30-day trial is available along with free unlimited phone & email support.
Virtual tutoring promises many exciting benefits for both individual tutors and tutored students. You can expand your reach, find new business and generate an additional revenue stream, which has the potential to become your primary business in the future as technology advances Sumana.
Hope this was Helpful Sumana
Thank You Kelly. “Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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Hello, I believe that you need to find a good tool to utilize (such as Zoom), and it would really help to learn that tool inside and out so you can utilize all the features available with that product. If you need help getting clients, a great way for the modern age is to use Social Media to promote the services you are offering -- word of mouth is another great method, and you can even go as far as making your own business cards that you can pass out whenever you come across a business opportunity in passing/in person.
There are a bunch of classes and opportunities to learn on the internet, so I would urge you to try and look up different teaching methods; many individuals learn more efficiently in different ways, so it's good to learn up on what those teaching methods are and how to identify when someone may need to learn differently than how you originally try.
Do no sit there and lecture; there have been studies showing that the average student starts "zoning out" or "tuning out" after about 20 minutes of steady lecturing. Try to engage your younger audience and keep their brains active. If you HAVE to sit through a lecture, maybe start and/or end it with a little brain teaser or by taking a mental/physical stretch break.
Research teaching methods
Research how to identify what teaching method works for someone
Choose a Virtual Platform (i.e. Zoom)
Learn the various features/functionality of your chosen Platform
There are a bunch of classes and opportunities to learn on the internet, so I would urge you to try and look up different teaching methods; many individuals learn more efficiently in different ways, so it's good to learn up on what those teaching methods are and how to identify when someone may need to learn differently than how you originally try.
Do no sit there and lecture; there have been studies showing that the average student starts "zoning out" or "tuning out" after about 20 minutes of steady lecturing. Try to engage your younger audience and keep their brains active. If you HAVE to sit through a lecture, maybe start and/or end it with a little brain teaser or by taking a mental/physical stretch break.
Stone recommends the following next steps:
Thank you for the information!
Sumana
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Amanda’s Answer
There are great answers posted already, but I would add that if you need to build clientele that you start in your neighborhood, school and church network to offer your skills and promote your tutoring. We have had success with this in our local neighborhood and it has brought the community closer together. Thanks for your willingness to serve others!
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Rita’s Answer
My son also tutored his friends and classmates in grade school and high school (he is also a math tutor in college too). He used facetime on his iPhone for one of his classmates and that seemed to work fine for their tutoring sessions. He used Zoom for other students. It really depends on how the person you are tutoring learns. Adjust the method to your tutee. I think the important thing to remember is to give them plenty of examples but let them do the work. Another suggestion or tool would be to use a scanner to send worksheets to your student (s) via email they could use to practice what you taught them too. Congratulations on trying to help others learn during this difficult time.
That is very helpful! Thank you so much for the information!
Sumana
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Andrew’s Answer
Hi Sumana,
There are many ways to go about virtually tutoring. It is important to determine if your clients' technological capabilities before you proceed. Such questions to ask yourself is if the client knows how to use the computer to its' full capacity and if your client has proper internet access.
If the answer to both those questions are 'yes', then use the following resources...
For Video Conferencing...
ZOOM
Google Meet
For Interactive Presentations/Lessons
Google Classroom
Nearpod
PlayPosit
There are many ways to go about virtually tutoring. It is important to determine if your clients' technological capabilities before you proceed. Such questions to ask yourself is if the client knows how to use the computer to its' full capacity and if your client has proper internet access.
If the answer to both those questions are 'yes', then use the following resources...
For Video Conferencing...
ZOOM
Google Meet
For Interactive Presentations/Lessons
Google Classroom
Nearpod
PlayPosit
Ohh Ok. Thank you so much!
Sumana
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Joseph’s Answer
Using Khan Academy to set up lessons and incorporating Zoom to ensure interactive lessons will be one of the best ways.
The most important thing is that the student being tutored and the tutor have consistently reliable connectivity and locations and times without outside distractions. Far too many online tutoring happens with multitasking and that takes away from the learning and teaching experience.
The most important thing is that the student being tutored and the tutor have consistently reliable connectivity and locations and times without outside distractions. Far too many online tutoring happens with multitasking and that takes away from the learning and teaching experience.
Thank you for the information! It is very helpful!!
Sumana