Subject Area Tutoring Programs Study Smarter!

Hello, Tutors!

A few updates for you today.

TutorTrac, in all of its tutor trac-ing glory, has decided to eat some appointments.  That is, for some of you entering your appointments perfectly correctly, they are not showing up when I run a report or even search for your appointments.  Because of this, I may have contacted you because numbers didn’t match for payroll approval.  Thank you all for being patient with me and for those who stopped by to clear things up, thank you!  Because of this I was able to find the problem and am working with our friends at TutorTrac to get it fixed.

Did you know the Learning Co-op is cool enough to have a facebook account?  Well, it is.  And you should be a fan, and encourage tutees to become fans, too.  We update it regularly with group tutoring times and the like.  Here’s the link, incase you’re interested: http://www.facebook.com/pages/University-of-Vermont-Learning-Co-op/177491804873?ref=ts

And, as always, I bid you adieu this week with a litany of tutoring requests.  If you see a course you’ve taken in the past and would like to try your hand at tutoring for it, request a faculty recommendation from your professor by sending them the following link  http://www.uvm.edu/~learnco/sat/facrec/ and send me a quick email.  Thanks!

CDAE 024, 128, 157

CMSI 281

STAT 153

CS 008, 121

BSAD 251

PSYC 220

EC 171

ASTR 055

Hello, most-amazing tutors!

It’s the end of week seven, which means the semester is about half-way completed and you have most likely finished your own midterms and begun to weather the storm of tutoring requests once students had their first exams returned.  Thanks for all of your hard work thus far; you are all wonderful!  If you’re looking for a pick-me-up, you might enjoy the following cartoon:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/coffee

As for announcements, the next pay period ends this Sunday.  ALL of your lognotes must be completed on TutorTrac and your corresponding hours entered into PeopleSoft no later than Sunday night.  Be sure all notes and time submissions are completed accurately– run a report in TutorTrac like I showed you last week– because if your times entered and hours logged do not match, I WILL NOT be able to approve your time.  Thanks!

In the next few weeks, I hope to update the “for Current Tutors” page on the Learning Co-op webpage to be a more complete resource for you.  Let me know what sort of links, instructions, etc you would like to see available there.

Also, since I know people are probably going to start getting sick (’tis the season!) let’s be clear on the protocol for calling in sick (or needing to cancel Co-op time for another reason).  As soon as you can, please contact BOTH me AND the front desk to let us know you won’t be able to make it in.  It is good for everyone to be in the loop so we can re-schedule students as quickly and as painlessly as possible.  Thanks for help with this.

Finally, as always, I leave you with a list of courses for which a tutor has been requested.  If you see a course you’ve taken in the past and would like to try your hand at tutoring for it, request a faculty recommendation from your professor by sending them the following link  http://www.uvm.edu/~learnco/sat/facrec/ and send me a quick email.  Thanks!

BSAD 40, 251
CDAE 002, 024
MLRS 281
CMSI 281
STAT 153
CS 008, 121
GEO 50
MMG 065
SWSS 060
PSYC 220
EC 171, 195

Cheers,
Rachel

Hello, tutors!

Another week has gone past and believe it or not, we have had 396 appointments with 213 different students totaling 332.91 hours of tutoring just in these first few weeks of school.  Well done, tutors!

I have a few announcements for you this week, as well as the customary list of tutor requests.

1. Just a reminder; if you are a campus-wide tutor please respond to all tutoring requests you receive as soon as possible.  Whether or not you have time in your schedule to meet with a student, let them know within 24 hours of receiving an email or phone call from them.

2. There is still some available space in the Co-Op; come see me if you tutor a high demand course and would like to fill one of these spots.

3. Hopefully, most people were able to enter hours into PeopleSoft for the last pay period.  If not, please remain patient and keep track of your time to log as soon as HR catches up.  Be sure to keep track of your appointments in Tutor Trac and your hours in PeopleSoft.  If the records from both do not correspond at the end of the pay period, I am sorry but I can not approve your time.  I have included as an attachment a handy instruction sheet on how to run a report in TutorTrac so that you can double check what appointments you have entered.  It’s a great way to make sure you didn’t forget to log a session.

4.  Finally, I want to remind everyone that the “For Current Tutors” page on the Subject Area Tutoring page in the Learning Co-Op website is a great resource for troubleshooting.  All of my weely emails are posted in blog format, and you can even use a drop-down menu on the side to search for important entries/instructions for things like logging hours or finding the link to the faculty recommendation form.

5. Which brings me finally to my list of tutor requests.  If you see a course you’ve taken in the past and would like to try your hand at tutoring for it, request a faculty recommendation from your professor by sending them the following link  http://www.uvm.edu/~learnco/sat/facrec/ and send me a quick email.  Thanks!

BSAD 40, 251
CDAE 002, 024
ITAL 101, 195
PATH 101
MLRS 281
CMSI 281
STAT 153
CS 121
GEO 50
HDFS 005
POLS 129
MMG 065

Cheers,
Rachel

Greetings, Tutors–

It was so great to see all of your lovely faces in one room, all together!  I wish we could do it every week… Thanks for being patient with me, even though the powerpoint was finicky (or I was incapable of working it).  Either way, just a few things to send along to you all this week in addition to my weekly plea for tutors.

1. The deadline for submitting hours for the next pay period is THIS SUNDAY by midnight.  Please enter all of your hours into PeopleSoft, if you are able, and remain patient with HR as they continue to plow through their mound of paperwork.  If you don’t yet have access to PeopleSoft, remember to be keeping track of your hours so you can enter them as soon as you have access.

2. A few of you inquired as to the status of evaluations this semester.  It is something we are still working on updating and incorporating into the TutorTrac system, so I’ll keep you posted.  Students checking out of appointments at the kiosks in the Learning Co-Op are immediately prompted to fill out an evaluation, but the system for campus-wide sessions is still under construction.

3.  The Co-op schedule is very close to full, but we still have availability scattered throughout the week and no one on Monday nights from 7-9.  Stop by my office if you’d like to fill one these spots.  Also, to help keep things straight, I’ve posted schedules in each of the Co-op spaces.  Since the Co-op is busier these days, be sure to double check all your appointments on TutorTrac, and check that the student you’re meeting is the student with which you are scheduled.

4.  Finally, I’ll leave you with a litany of tutoring requests.  As always, if you see a course you’ve taken in the past and would like to try your hand at tutoring for it, request a faculty recommendation from your professor by sending them the following link  http://www.uvm.edu/~learnco/sat/facrec/ and send me a quick email.  Thanks!

PBIO 185; CDAE 002 and 024; ITAL 51, 101 and 195; PATH 101; MLRS 281; CMSI 281, Statistics 153; CS 121; PolSci 041

Cheers!