The problem every centre knows
A tutoring session is an hour a week. School maths is five hours a week, plus homework, quizzes and tests. Most of the questions a student gets wrong happen between sessions, and by the time they sit down with their tutor, half of them are forgotten or lost in a pile of loose sheets.
That gap is what some Victorian tutoring centres are now using Tuterly for. It doesn't replace the tutor. It catches the questions a student gets wrong during the week, so the tutor can spend the session on the things that actually need a person.
What students do between sessions
Tuterly is an iPhone app for Years 7 to 10 maths (Android coming soon), designed by Australian educators, with topics that follow the Victorian Curriculum 2.0.
- Snap a question they got wrong. From homework, a textbook or a class quiz. The app reads it, files it under the right topic and saves a full worked solution, hidden so they can have another go first.
- Upload a whole school test. Photos of each page, a PDF or a Word document. For a marked test, the questions marked wrong get automatically stored in the app.
- Practise a fresh version straight away. A similar question on the same idea that is genuinely different, not the same question with the numbers changed. Getting similar ones right earns stars, and three stars means the question is mastered.
- Topic check. A short test on any topic in their year, one question from each part of the topic. Anything they get wrong goes into their bank.
What the tutor sees before a session
A tutor links to a student's account with the student's 6-character code. From there the tutor can:
- Look through the student's bank before the session. Every question they've snapped, by topic, with what is still to fix, what they're learning and what is mastered.
- Set snap goals. For example, "5 questions by Thursday", so the bank fills up with real school work before the next lesson.
- Set a test on any topic. Useful before a school test, or to check a topic covered in the last session has stuck.
The result is a session that starts with the questions the student actually got wrong this week, instead of "so, how was school?"
What parents get
Parents link with the same kind of code and get a Week in review: the questions added and mastered this week, test scores and the trickiest topic. They see progress, not every photo of their child's work. For a centre, that is a weekly touchpoint with families that doesn't depend on a tutor writing a report.
Where it fits, and where it doesn't
Tuterly covers Years 7 to 10 maths only, on iPhone. Android coming soon. It doesn't teach English, science, primary maths or VCE, and it isn't an exam-prep course for scholarship or selective entry tests. For those, the tutor is still the whole job.
For Years 7 to 10 maths students, the pattern that works is simple: the student snaps what they get wrong during the week, the tutor reviews the bank before the session, and the session goes on the questions the app couldn't fix on its own.
For centres
If you run a tutoring centre in Victoria and want to use Tuterly with your students, leave your email on the home page and we'll be in touch.