How technology is bridging the gap between students and tutors

[Savita Garg]

Remember how finding a tutor used to be a huge challenge? Parents had no choice but to ask the neighborhood aunty about where her children took tuition from, poach their best friend’s tutor, or seek help from a relative/colleague. Every year their goal would be to find that perfect tutor/tuition center. With children growing up, the tuition hunting story became different. Today students prefer studying the way they want from a tutor of their liking. But finding the right one that matches your requirement has always been like finding a needle in a haystack.

Over the years, technology has largely taken over our lives. It has even smoothed our journey of tutor search. 

Here are ways in which tutoring platforms have bridged the gap between tutors and students. It isn’t just limited to the right tutor.

A large pool of tutors: Students have the power to choose from a wide variety of top tutors from pan India. They can use filters to narrow down the search, and evaluate the selected tutors on the basis of experience, budget, and students’ rating.

The mode of your choice: Today choosing either an online or an offline mode is also an old story. Platforms offer the option to choose a hybrid mode – a mix of online and offline classes. Students are given the flexibility to choose and create a mix of online and offline classes as per their convenience.

The schedule of your choice: One critical thing that is highly underrated is student-life balance. Students have to juggle between school, homework, tuition and also make time for some extracurricular activities. Sounds too much for a day? The platform must give students the flexibility to set their own schedule to attain the balance.

The budget of your (parents’) choice: Let’s be honest, tuition is expensive. The primary aim is to help students to connect with a top tutor at the best possible price. Parents can set their own budget and find the right tutor for their child.

Feedback (for parents): For parents, there is no structure to follow up with tutors on a regular basis. With technology in hand, tutors update parents on a regular basis and keep them posted on their child’s progress in real-time.

With websites and apps made using the best possible technologies, these platforms offer a seamless user journey. Easy to understand and use, these platforms have changed the way of searching for the right tutor/tuition.

The platform is used to book classes, pay for them, keep a check on the progress, and even conduct online classes. It provides students with a scheduler to manage multiple tuitions as well. It makes tuition search and managing multiple tuitions really easy.

Not just students, but it has brought greater good in the lives of tutors as well. Here’s how:

The search for new students: Teaching in an offline mode limits the tutor. At the end of each academic year, tutors are faced with the excess stress of finding new students. Student hunting becomes a task in itself. All the tutor needs to do is update his/her profile. Then he/she gets connected with the students looking for classes.

Price is not a problem: Tutors can charge as per their wish. All they need to do is set a certain price. The same is highlighted on their dashboards and students can connect with them. 

The convenience of mode: Gone are the days when you teach via an offline mode only. You have a choice to go online and teach from the comfort of your home. You may be traveling or vacationing in the mountains, all you need is to go online and teach.

The convenience of time: With a proper schedule in place, you can take classes early morning, late night, or the time that works best for you. Update your availability on your scheduler and your job is done.

Technology is a boon that when leveraged in the right manner reaps great results. And it has turned out to be super effective for the online tutoring industry, helping all the stakeholders – students, tutors & parents. 

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