Where does the actual tutoring take place?

Tutoring with LTB takes place through your portal in one of our online classrooms. We currently have four:

• Zoom: Includes audio/video, screen sharing, and a whiteboard. Both you and your student will need to have Zoom clients installed. You can find lots of help information and tutorials on how to use Zoom features by doing a web search.
• Google Meet: Includes audio/video and screen sharing, but not a whiteboard. Help and tutorials for Google Meet are also readily available from a web search.
• BigBlueButton: Includes audio/video, screen sharing, and whiteboard, but note that you'll have to specifically grant permission to the student on every slide so that both of you can edit on the whiteboard. We have a video tutorial on how to use BigBlueButton.
• GroupWorld: Includes audio/video, screen sharing, and whiteboard. You'll have bad echo on the audio unless both you and your student use headphones, but it does have more features on the whiteboard than BigBlueButton. We have a video tutorial on how to use GroupWorld.

If you want to practice using any of the classrooms, you can try a demo session.

To start a tutoring session, you'll first need to connect with a student and schedule a session. Then at the time of your session, or a few minutes before, click "Session details" from your Dashboard (see screenshot below).

When you get to the session details, select one of the four online classrooms, and click "Start This Session". The classroom will start.

Once it has started, your student will need to log in to their account and click "Join my tutor's classroom" on their dashboard. Or, you can send them the link shown on the tutor's session details screen, which will be the same for each tutoring session between you and that particular student. After clicking the button or link, the student will then be brought automatically to whichever classroom the tutor decided to open. Note that the student does not select the classroom — the tutor selects the classroom, but the tutor should ask if the student has a preference. If the student is very familiar with Zoom, we recommend that tutors use Zoom. 

While we prefer tutors to use one of our classrooms, they may also use an external platform to meet with their student.