Tutor on Wyzant 4+

Changed my life

I’ve tutored HS Comp Sci on Wyzant for a little over 2 years and it has completely changed my ability to earn money outside of being a HS teacher. The hours and pay are completely up to me and Wyzant platform is quite intuitive. They also don’t fret if the student and I decide to have use Zoom instead of Wyzants video platform, although the Wyzant platform has some pros and cons but overall very solid too. The payment system is easy and planning and scheduling is pretty seamless on the website and app. Overall great experience here!!

App lacks organization

Many aspects of the WyzAnt app frustrate tutors, although the WyzAnt company itself is fabulous, serving at the forefront of connecting tutors with students online.

Unfortunately, there are many problems. When the address of a tutoring location has been entered for one student, it cannot be copied to a second student. It can only be assigned to one student or assigned to all students, leading to a massive list of shared addresses to cull through when scheduling any session. Even worse, this long list of addresses is completely random, rather than alphabetical or, even better, listed by the frequency with which that student has met at a particular location. Instead, it's total chaos! When corresponding with a student or parent, there is no RETURN key to separate paragraphs, only a SEND button, so the message is all jumbled up instead of organized by neat paragraphs. And I could go on.

Clearly, WyzAnt has not sought advice from top tutors like myself who tutor at 30-40 different locations and have up to 50 students at a time, hence exposing the weaknesses of this app.

Developer Response ,

We definitely don't intend to frustrate you, and we absolutely do seek advice from a lot of great tutors in our design process - but this feedback is incredibly helpful to us as well, of course. Thank you for the specifics, Computer Geek 0324. We are constantly iterating and updating the app, so hopefully a future version of the client will make things more streamlined and to your liking.

Waste of time.

Went through the process of becoming a tutor and took and passed their required tests. I did a background check for them and sent them my school transcripts and after their evaluation I was eligible to tutor. Never had a session with a student, answered a student’s homework help question, and they closed my account with no notification. After several emails back and forth (with no explanation) they finally told me that I violated section 18 b of the tutor agreement which, if you read it, is extremely vague. It basically just gave them the freedom to close my account for no good reason, as I mentioned before I hadn’t even gotten to tutor a student; I just answered someone’s homework question like on chegg. So, I’ve taken to leaving a bad review since they’ve decided not to communicate what I’ve done wrong so as to close my account without telling me. If you’re a student looking to tutor, don’t go through them or you might run into the same situation as me! Save yourself the time and find another tutoring program.