In the past we’ve only allowed current university students to become tutors on UniversityTutor.com and it has created some issues (to put it mildly).

For example:

  • We verify enrollment by asking students to enter their .edu email address.  But some universities only issue .edu emails to faculty, not students.
  • Some schools issue student emails under a different domain (e.g. grizmail.umt.edu instead of umontana.edu)
  • Some students don’t check their university email account as often as their regular mail (such as gmail, yahoo, etc)

Worse still, we’ve had a whole bunch of VERY qualified tutors that we’ve had to turn away simply because they no longer had their student email.  Some of them are recent graduates, Phd’s, certified teachers, etc.

So to fix this we made a decision: why not open up UniversityTutor to anyone who wants to tutor!

With the review system in place we can maintain a high level of quality, and this will really be the best option for everyone (students included who will now have a greater selection).

So as of today you’ll notice that we no longer ask you for your university or a .edu email address when you sign up:

Better Communication With More Prominent Tutor Names

Making the above change prompted another one.  To improve communication between tutors and students, we decided to make tutor names more visible on their profiles (just first name and last initial).  We got feedback (on our user feedback forum) that this was sometimes a nuisance to match the right tutor (who’s picture was visible) with the right name.

Tutors can of course change their display name if they’d prefer it not to be visible, but we hope most tutors will appreciate the additional visibility on their profile.

We hope you find these changes useful and we’ll continue to bring you more as we move forward!
UniversityTutor.com Staff

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