Solutions · Independent tutors
More teaching and less admin for independent tutors
Pencil Spaces gives independent tutors a classroom that stays between lessons, a link that never changes and the tools to explain anything. These are the problems tutors who work for themselves run into, and how Pencil Spaces solves each one.
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Industry
Tutoring
Who
Running your business, Your teaching, Your students, Their parents
Problems mapped
45
今日
43 solved, 2 partly solved
お客様
Built for independent tutors
- One Space per student, kept between lessonsPersistent Spaces · AvailablePersistent Spaces save everything between lessons, so each lesson picks up where the last one ended.
- A link students can’t losePermanent Links · AvailableEach Space has one permanent link that always opens the lesson that’s on now.
- Notes that write themselvesLesson Summaries · AvailableLesson Summaries write a recap of every lesson with action items, in versions for the student and the parent.
Customer stories
- Osmond EducationCustomer storyOn Pencil Spaces since 2023 · Secondary Tutor of the Year 2024
- Get Better At PhysicsCustomer storyAQA examiner · 11 years tutoring physics
- ThatTutorCustomer storyOn Pencil Spaces since 2023 · Best Online Tutor 2023
Running your business
- Families see the vendor’s brand, not yoursSolved today
- Families churn without warningSolved today
- Invoices don’t match lessons deliveredSolved today
- Students and tutors forget to show upSolved today
- Engagement and satisfaction go unmeasuredSolved today
Your teaching
- Keeping availability current every weekSolved today
- Clashing calendars across programsSolved today
- Hearing about changes too lateSolved today
- No buffer between back-to-back lessonsSolved today
- Deciding what each student needs nextSolved today
- Hours spent finding and making materialsSolved today
- Rebuilding the board before every lessonSolved today
- Hunting for links and loginsSolved today
- Students late, locked out or lostSolved today
- Echo, noise and frozen videoSolved today
- Every student on a different deviceSolved today
- Writing math and diagrams with a mouseSolved today
- Juggling slides, videos and websitesSolved today
- Hands-on ideas don’t work on a screenSolved today
- Students looking at the wrong spotSolved today
- Building rapport through a screenSolved today
- Attention drifts, young kids most of allSolved today
- Students who don’t want to be therePartly solved today
- Running out of time, ending lateSolved today
- Can’t see a student’s work as they do itSolved today
- “I get it” that isn’t trueSolved today
- Hours lost to grading homeworkSolved today
- Feedback that’s vague, late or ignoredSolved today
- Remembering where each student left offSolved today
- Practice between lessons doesn’t happenSolved today
- Catching up after absences and summersSolved today
- Keeping parents updated takes timeSolved today
- Complaints with no record to point toSolved today
- Writing notes and reports by handSolved today
- Unpaid prep, waiting and no-showsPartly solved today
- No one watches them teachSolved today
- Exposed when alone online with a minorSolved today
Your students
- Getting lost on the way into classSolved today
- Forgetting what was covered last timeSolved today
- Stuck, with no one to ask until next weekSolved today
- Unsure what to work on nextSolved today
- No idea if they’re ready for the testSolved today
Their parents
- Rescheduling around illness and holidaysSolved today
- “It was fine” is all they hearSolved today
- Renewing without evidence it’s workingSolved today
Every problem we’ve mapped is on the problem map.
The features behind these fixes
See it in a live Space.
We’ll walk you through it, shaped around how you teach.
