Smarthinking provides free online tutoring in more than 150 subject areas for all UNG students (face-to-face and online). Many of the subjects have tutors available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Students can request tutoring assistance by clicking the Free Online Tutoring link on their course navbar in eLearning@UNG (D2L) and select Connect to Smarthinking.
Smarthinking provides these tips:
- “Break the ice” by mentioning Smarthinking in your syllabus. Consider including a brief overview of available services and instructions for access. You can also show your students a short video walkthrough of Smarthinking on the first day of class to demonstrate the ways they can connect to a tutor for extra help outside of your office hours.
- Remind students about Smarthinking during exam reviews. Tutoring can supplement in-class reviews and provide individualized guidance to students who need additional help.
- Provide supplemental exercises for your students to practice the current lesson but let Smarthinking take it from there! Students can check their work and solutions with a tutor and get just-in-time feedback to help them stay on the right track.
- As an instructor, you know that many students are too afraid or intimidated to ask for help. Recommend Smarthinking as an anonymous alternative to in-person tutoring.
- For term-length projects, require students to check in with tutors throughout the process. Smarthinking’s subject-matter experts can help students plan, execute, and understand their research and findings, while writing tutors can help students develop and refine their final reports.
- You’ve recommended tutoring to a student struggling in your course, but he doesn’t have time to meet with someone due to his hectic schedule. He can submit the problems and work he’s done so far to a tutor who, within 24 hours, will provide feedback on the work shown and guidance on the next steps.
Resources
Read the full list of tips from Smarthinking, Creative ways to integrate Smarthinking into your course (PDF)
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