Solutions · Campus tutoring and writing centers
Campus tutoring and writing centers, open online
Pencil Spaces helps campus tutoring and writing centers run online appointments and drop-in help, with records that show the center’s reach. These are the problems directors, tutors and students run into, and how Pencil Spaces solves each one.
Free for 2 weeks on any paid plan. No credit card required.
Industry
Colleges and adult learning
Who
Center directors, Tutors and peer tutors, Students
Problems mapped
13
Today
13 solved
Built for campus tutoring and writing centers
- Students book their own timeSelf-Booking · AvailableSelf-Booking lets students book lessons themselves, and invites go out to everyone automatically.
- Reach you can reportAttendance Dashboard · AvailableThe Attendance Dashboard shows attendance and absence rates and present, absent and late counts, in reports you can export.
- Papers marked up togetherAnnotate Documents · AvailableImport PDFs of up to 1,000 pages, then draw, highlight and underline right on them.
Center directors
- Availability lives in a dozen placesSolved today
- Attendance entered and fixed by handSolved today
- Engagement and satisfaction go unmeasuredSolved today
- New tutors take too long to be readySolved today
- Coaches can’t give every tutor feedbackSolved today
Tutors and peer tutors
- Unready for their first real studentsSolved today
- Keeping availability current every weekSolved today
- Feedback that’s vague, late or ignoredSolved today
- Logging attendance after every lessonSolved today
Students
- Lessons clash with classes, sports or jobsSolved today
- Too shy to interrupt and askSolved today
- Feedback that’s only right or wrongSolved today
- Stuck, with no one to ask until next weekSolved 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.






