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SnappSchool: Know What Your Child Is Studying At School Every Week

Leave a Comment Posted by on June 6, 2012
SnappSchool

SnappSchool

SnappSchool is a platform that allows parents to know what their kids are learning.

The service understands that there are many ways to teach things. Co-founder of SnappSchool John Halloran explains, “To do long division, I don’t need the full lesson my fourth grader needs to get through it, but I do need a little reminder. It is not something I do everyday.”

SnappSchool knows that parental involvement directly affects student performance. To allow parents to know what their kids are doing at school helps the kids in their overall development. Interaction here is the key. Read more of this post

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Tutorhub – Online Tutoring Platform For School Going Kids

Leave a Comment Posted by on March 24, 2011

tutorhub logoTutorhub is an excellent UK based online tutoring platform focused on supporting school age kids with their homework. Tutorhub provides private one-to-one tutoring over the internet using instant messages which kids are familiar with and enjoy. All the tutors in Tutorhub are both CRB checked and experts in their chosen subjects and many of them are teacher and university graduate or undergraduate students. Tutors set their own rates based on their area of expertise. Parents can control their kids account if they wish and can view tutor’s performance on passed sessions.

Tutorhub‘s amazing web based learning platform is for both tutors and school going kids. Tutors can have a profile providing all the necessary information about the themselves such as name, charging rates, area of expertise etc.  Parents or kids can choose their tutor seeing tutor’s profile and select how much time they want to spend with the tutor. This way, people can easily get tutor from this website. If parents feel that tutoring session did not go as expected, there is a refund policy which is applicable if called withing 72 hours. According to Tutorhub, most of the tutors are available from 4 pm to 9 pm at weekdays and from 2 pm to 6 pm at weekends.

Another important feature of Tutorhub is, it provides the opportunity to ask free questions to all and answer to those questions. This helps people to learn many things by asking and answering. In addition, Tutorhub also provides necessary child safety features, so parents can be ensured about their child safety when they are using this platform and they can also report any inappropriate conversations. Tutors are allowed to get payment once a month and they can not request for payment until five weeks after the session.

Feature at a glance:

  • Create a free or paying account
  • Hourly charging rates
  • Payment once a month
  • Child safe design
  • Refund Policy

Finally, we can say that students can improve themselves doing homework, coursework, revising their study and other activity though proper use of this wonderful platform. So, we welcome you to try it yourself and let us know your feedback.

For more information, Learningfy and Kidzmet are two similar platform we have already reviewed about. You can also have a look at those two platforms and compare yourself.

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Youspeakit – Fantastic Online Platform For Learning English Language Easily

2 Comments Posted by on March 18, 2011

youspeakit-logoYouspeakit is a fantastic online platform for learning English language easily and attractively as well as with fun. Nonetheless there are lots of English languages learning platform but Youspeakit is distinguishable for its user’s interactivity and enormous resource.

Youspeakit lessons are categorized in various level such as easy, medium, advance and business level. You can choose any level to start your English learning. If you are not very good in English you should start from easy level.  Its video based interactive lesson not only ameliorates your English but also improve your English listening capably. Form resource tab you can also learn basic to advance level English language grammar as well as having lots of quizzes to pick up your grammar knowledge. Quizzes also help to evaluate your progress. From magazine section you will be able to read various magazines and regular reading practices to boost up reading ability. In TV section you will find some link of famous English Channel and that helps you recognize what language trend using in formal English speaking. Joining community on Youspeakit, you can post videos about English learning and able to send message to other members.  Moreover Youspeakit helps you to get resources from other members and you can share your resources with them.

All great features of Youspeakit at a glance:

  • Learning based on Videos
  • Develop your vocabulary
  • Exercise to evacuate your progress
  • Grammar learning

The beta version of Youspeakit is free for all and members can follow the videos lesson, grammar lessons and vocabulary section to develop their vocabulary easily. Youspeakit is proving great help to non-native English learners to learn English in an interactive way.

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Kidzmet – Find Perfect Teachers, Tutors And Coaches For Your Kids

1 Comment Posted by on March 11, 2011

kidzmet-logoKidzmet is an awesome platform that facilitates communication between parents and tutors so that parents can find the perfect teachers, tutors and coaches for their kids easily.  A well trained and experienced tutor is essential for kid’s future improvement and shiny carrier.

Parents always strives to provide well-formed lives for their children by ensuring proper education but because of tight schedule, it is quite impossible for them to take care about their kid’s progress in study. Kidzmet is helping you to find the local teacher for your kids using the Kidzmet‘s MentorMatches. According to Kidzmet “we can match students with teachers who are instinctively “tuned in” to your kids and uniquely qualified to help their seeds of passion, potential and purpose blossom”.

Moreover Kidzmet is also offering complimentary trial classes to new students that allow you and your kids to evaluate how you feel about Kidzmet member teachers. The process of finding tutor is very easy. First you have to sign up for free.  Secondly you will allocate 10 minutes to take Kidzmet’s Spirit Assessment with your child. And finally find the local teachers, tutors and coaches based on personality, innate talents and learning style.

Kidzmet is committed to help you to find the perfect teacher in local area with equality and experience. After the trial classes you will have an opportunity to rate the teachers so you can enroll in Kidzmet with confidence that you will get capable and skill teacher for your child.

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Learningfy – Connects Teachers and Students Through Webcam Classes

1 Comment Posted by on January 29, 2011

Learningfy logoLearningfy is an online learning and teaching platform that allows students to get private tutor online and learn over Webcam classes. The idea behind the website is good enough and reduce geographical differences between students and teachers. It will also allow students to learn a wide variety of topics and skills remotely from teachers of different regions.

At Learningfy, a teacher can create $5 trial class of his/her choice. Then he can share his class with the world. If a prospective student find a teacher’s class interesting then he/she will order the class paying $5 fee. The class will take place on Webcam over the internet at a convenient time of both the teacher and the student. After the class, the student can submit his/her feedback or review about the instructor. When the class is successfully delivered, Learningfy will credit your balance with $4 and the teacher can withdraw the money using Paypal. After that initial success an instructor can create more customized classes on his/her own rates.

Learningfy provides SEO friendly teacher profile for each instructor where a teacher can highlight his/her expertise and publish his/her availability so that a prospective student can engage easily. Learningfy charges a flat rate of 20% for each class and price is always private between student and teacher to keep the competition low over price.

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