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I really enjoyed TutorMe at the beginning, however recently they made some changes to their platform which restricted my access to certain students. They gave no clear explanation. I will copy all of their responses here: 

"Hello ,
Thank you for your feedback. Some adjustments were made to some school accounts that may have changed a student's availability on the platform. We're sorry for the confusion here, and you are still able to connect with many other students on the platform.
Best,"

"These are permanent changes. You have access to some students, not all. These changes are due to the adjustment made to come school accounts. Due to these changes, these students are not available to tutor. At this time you will be unable to connect with some students due to the adjustments on their account level. Sorry for the trouble."

"These changes are specific to student accounts and we cannot provide detail. As mentioned, you won't be able to access these students due to these changes. There are other students that you are able to tutor on the platform."

Overall had an excellent previous experience with the students, but let down by these new changes which have limited my income potential. And now, I'm also blocked. One of my students told me that she wasn't able to reach out to me for 1 week and when she finally did it, she sent me the request and it appeared: "K... (my name) did not accept your request" while I was there waiting to start the lesson. 

Since I knew that I had not declined the lesson request, "it must have been a TutorMe error", I reached out to technical support, but the quickest response was in one day, we were having class at that moment. These are the reasons I sent links sometimes to have the class. It was only when the platform was glitching with no audio or video or not loading properly. 

I'm not sure if they really care about students' process and, even less, about Tutors, but about money, reputation and restrictive policies. 

TutorMe, If you really care about students you will do the bare minimum telling the Truth and inform them of my absence from the Platform.

Also, I still don't understand your associate's response to me on why I didn't have access to some students. If you could better clarify now that I am not longer on the Platform, it would give me peace of mind.

PS: I worked on TutorMe from October 2020 to March 2021. I just had the option to click 2020 and 2021.


TutorMe tutors can work very productively with clients and help clients better learn about a wide variety of subjects. However, TutorMe should seriously consider paying tutors more sustainable wages because TutorMe tutors offer top-notch quality academic support services to clients.

Tutors who work for this company are often able to work with engaged clients who respect the comprehensive guidance that tutors offer them. I have been fortunate to support everyone from first-graders learning the English alphabet to doctoral students working through finance problem sets and dissertation revision programs. I will say that TutorMe tutors are expected to be extremely versatile in very quickly providing support to clients with a wide range of needs.

I would highly appreciate it if TutorMe considered increasing tutor pay to somewhere between $18-20/hr. TutorMe tutors often have advanced degrees and extensive experience in their respective fields. While tutors can work in a very flexible remote environment and forge rewarding connections with a large student base,   the company should consider implementing a slight increase in tutor pay. Such an increase would better reflect the high quality of work that TutorMe tutors put in for the company.

I've worked at TutorMe for a couple of months and have really enjoyed it thus far! The job is completely remote and flexible based on your schedule, so you can work whenever you want and as much or as little as you want. You can choose a variety of topics to tutor in and most of the students are really open and easy to work with. My position as a Virtual Librarian helps to keep up my reference interview skills while job searching and as a writing tutor, I get to help both ELL and other students with their writing skills.

The tutoring software is really easy to use, but I wish it was more customizable. There are some features related to math tutoring that aren't relevant to my tutoring and sometimes get in the way. I also wish the pay was a bit better. It is $16 an hour, but that is all dependent on which students you actually get and how long your tutoring session is. When there are too many tutors on and not enough students, it can be really difficult to claim jobs. There's not really any way to advance in the company that I know of, either.

Overall, I really enjoy working at TutorMe! The supervisors for both the Writing Lab and the Library have been fantastic and supportive. Their training is quick and easy, but really helpful, too. I really enjoy the flexibility of working around my schedule and having the extra help after being laid off from COVID-19. I think this is a great "side gig" that, if you are quick and dedicated, can be the main gig.

I found TutorMe looking for ways to work from home and use my bachelor's degree. I did some tutoring in college, but I wasn't successful. I only tutored one person; however, with TutorMe I am able to reach a larger audience of students who need my help more often.

The hardest part of the job is claiming tutoring opportunities that you can answer before someone else claims it.  I try to respond to student requests for help before other tutors beat me to it.  I usually get the ones that other tutors don't know how to do, or I end up first because of luck.  

Once the student starts the session, I walk them through the problem(s) and help them find a solution.  I usually let the student end the session, but I will end it if they don't have any questions after finding a solution.  If I don't know the answer, then I can void the lesson, refunding their money, or I can pause it to not charge the student for time to find math formulas that I forgot.

The most enjoyable part of the job is when students start to understand their homework and end the call with confidence.  Overall, TutorMe is the best way for tutors to make a little extra money while helping students that they wouldn't have been able to reach otherwise. 

Tutorme is great if you want a flexible schedule and if you're juggling multiple jobs. On average students are great, and the process of onboarding(which is all computer generated) is simple. The downfall of this company is their lack of care for their tutors. You feel as if you are so easily dispensible and you probably are. There is no tutor support, just a chatbox, and the occasional passive agressive warnings from what is presumably an HR person. If often feels like you are at the whim of a disgruntled student. If a student gives you a bad review, there is no regard for the tutor. You are simply scolded and disregarded. There are few to no check ups on tutors or any forum for feedback. There is literally no feedback option presented. There is no one to contact if you have feedback about the company, how you're doing as a tutor, or what improvement you'd like to see made. How is a company supposed to progress if they don't inquire about how their staff is doing? Working at Tutorme can often feel like you are only as good as the stars you recieve. There is a sense of coldness that comes from these automated emails and you quickly see that you are underpayed(tutors have no room for growth or increased pay and certainly noo holiday bonus) and undervalued. 

I was drawn to TutorMe by the promise of flexible scheduling and somewhat decent pay for drop-in tutoring. Unfortunately, the way it works on the tutor end is that you are matched to students like this: "Our matching algorithm is designed to match students with tutors based on factors including positive reviews, recent activity, and response time to messages and requests." Sounds good except that when you start, you literally CANNOT claim students because the system matches a student to multiple tutors and whoever clicks "claim" first, gets the student. This happens within .005 seconds (quite literally) and sometimes even when you are able to click "claim", the student is still somehow claimed by someone else. When inquiring about how the algorithm works, I keep getting fed the same line (see above) with zero answers to how exactly a tutor is supposed to build up enough data to get matched to students if they can never get students in the first place. It would seem you need to only work during non-peak hours, which defeats the point of flexible scheduling/working. This is extremely stressful and unfair to the tutor. I would discourage literally any tutor of quality from working for this company unless they were tutoring in a highly specialized field with next-to-zero competition on this platform. 

If you are looking for something to help make money on the side or as a second job, this is a good remote job, but it does not replace an actual job. You have to wait for a student to need help and even then you have to be fast enough to claim the session or you will lose out. For the writing reviews, I did not even bother because they were gone before I even got a chance to try and obtain one. Their heatmap is inaccurate, and you will be lucky to make enough money during the slow periods to pay for the basic essentials.

There is no training, and very little help from management or co-workers (just a chatbot), and some students will give you a bad rating because you did not give them the answer, which can affect your rating score, which in turn can cost your position there. 

The flexibility is nice, but the downside is that since you are waiting for sessions to get paid (and you only start earning after the first five minutes, if your student cancels before then, you get nothing), you may be working for more than eight hours to make enough for a day, especially during the slow periods. 

If you are looking for a part-time work-at-home job with flexible hours, this is a decent one, but if you need something to make a living off of, find somewhere else to work. 


As a biology and writing tutor, TutorMe offers pretty decent pay, which I strongly believe every tutor deserves. Moreover, the students whom I get to tutor are satisfied, making the platform a win-win for both tutors and students!
What I enjoy about TutorMe is the company's lesson space. The first time I used the whiteboard section, I was surprisingly excited because of its efficiency and effectiveness to illustrate concepts and examples. 
I've been an online tutor on few tutoring sites for a while now, but TutorMe is WAY TOO different in terms of pay, platform features, and student-tutor interaction. Plus, they've got an approachable Support Team!

Check it for yourself! :)

Each time I work, I meet great students across the world. I'm able to help students ranging from grade schoolers to college students in areas that I feel comfortable and confident in teaching. I love the flexibility. I can get on the website at any time of day and find students to tutor. I've been a little frustrated with becoming a writing tutor. The TutorMe platform prompts me to accept the honor code each time I try to accept a writing review job, but the message goes away before I can accept because someone else claims the job and I have yet to claim a writing lab job because of this. Other than this frustration, I have enjoyed using the platform to connect with students and, again, I have loved being able to choose when I work and for how long I work.

This website is extremely user-friendly, both for the tutor and student. While I have only worked with TutorMe for around 2 weeks, I feel abundantly supported by the management and website, itself. I often receive emails from the company manager, Myles, offering advice on effective tutoring and reminding me of TutorMe's plentiful resources. Furthermore, I was invited to a virtual Writing tutor instruction demo immediately upon hire, which walked me through a typical tutoring session while at TutorMe. While I am extremely satisfied, I do have some minor complaints. As a tutor and aspiring teacher, I so badly want to teach as much as possible. Unfortunately, there are never enough students for tutors to be consistently busy. We need more students at TutorMe! 

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