Solutions · Before the lesson
Ready before the lesson starts
Scheduling, reminders, preparation and getting in the door. These are the problems that show up in the hours and minutes before each lesson, and how Pencil Spaces solves them.
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Who feels it
Program leaders, Tutors, Students, Parents
Problems mapped
30
Today
27 solved, 3 partly solved
Problems before the lesson
Program leaders
- Availability lives in a dozen places
- Building a term’s schedule takes days
- Every change ripples through by hand
- Finding a substitute in time
- No control over who changes the schedule
- Students and tutors forget to show up
- Uninvited guests, leaked links, stale access
- Schools don’t know what tutoring covers
Tutors
- Keeping availability current every week
- Clashing calendars across programs
- Hearing about changes too late
- No buffer between back-to-back lessons
- Meeting a new student cold
- Deciding what each student needs next
- Hours spent finding and making materials
- Rebuilding the board before every lesson
- Hunting for links and logins
- Students late, locked out or lost
- Inheriting students with no context
- Not knowing what the class is covering
Students
- Getting lost on the way into class
- Only a phone or a locked-down Chromebook
- Lessons clash with classes, sports or jobs
- Forgetting, or no adult to get them there
- A new tutor who doesn’t know them
- Lessons cancelled or tutors missing
Parents
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