Lending Support, Overcoming Challenges

Tutoring and supplemental instruction are often cited as the most effective things you can do to help students overcome an academic challenge, particularly when delivered by a peer. But getting students to attend tutoring, or in some cases even know which tutoring center they can go to, can be an obstacle. It is can also be a real challenge keeping a tutoring center on schedule and knowing who is available to tutor which courses and at what times.

Starfish helps you keep your tutoring center running smoothly by managing all the appointment scheduling for your tutors. In addition, the system helps you keep track of what services you are delivering so you can optimize for the future.

Assessing Your Impact

More important, Starfish provides you with the data that shows that your efforts have made a difference. For example, when a student attends three or more tutoring sessions, did his/her final grade improve? Did he/she complete the course? Starfish can tell you.

You're busy, and you want to know that what you are doing is having an impact. Starfish can help you keep the administration headaches to a minimum so you can spend your time helping students. See other benefits of using Starfish as a tutor.

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro has been working with Starfish for the past two academic terms. In this time, we have developed a tutoring feature that has enabled our Learning Assistance Center to successfully schedule, maintain, and evaluate the outcomes of more than 1,200 tutoring sessions.

Ray Purdom,
Director of the University Teaching and Learning Center
University of North Carolina at Greensboro