Does Anyone Have Experience Working for Online Tutoring Sites
By aireanna18
@aireanna18 (1914)
United States
October 17, 2012 12:10am CST
I was wondering has anyone ever tried working as an online tutor? I was seeing some ads for online tutoring listed on Craigslist for online tutoring. The ads were promising decent earnings like $10 - $12 per hour working as an online tutor.
Part of me was thinking this sounded like a pretty good opportunity for making some extra money. With little information listed like if this is done through a forum system or scype or what type of interface they use for online tutoring I felt a little bit out of my league. I've worked in education and tutored before, but I've never provided education services to a client through an internet interface system.
I was wondering if anyone in the myLot community has experience working as an online tutor that they can share. Specifically, if you can elaborate regarding how it works to tutor online. Did you need a lot of internet savy skills? Do these forums generally have resources for tutoring. I would love to hear your tutoring stories so please share.
Please remember the myLot rules of not sharing your earnings or asking how much people made tutoring. I know that we all love to share, but prefer not to receive those oh so sad emails stating that threads got deleted because information was posted that did not follow the myLot rules. Thank you so much!
7 responses
@curlyghe (19)
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17 Oct 12
Yes, I have. Tutors report for work in an office and were assigned in a cubicle where we all have our own computers to use. They make all the schedules and lessons in which you have to follow for each student. We were given 10 min for every student and you have to be a multi-tasker because for each student you have to make an evaluation which you need to submit before the end of the shift. We neither must be late nor extend for each student.
I resigned from this work because it was stressful and boring for me. Once you learn the system of doing it and got used to it, it becomes a routine. When it is a marathon as most of the time it is, you coudn't even pee or take a good long break. The pay is good but it would be better if you have enough time to teach the student without thinking most of the "time".
For me, having personal tutors would be much better so just find one from online tutoring. No time constraint and no lessons dictated. You make the lesson and for an hour you have many things to teach and you will enjoy.
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@aireanna18 (1914)
• United States
18 Oct 12
I agree that it must better to create your own lessons based upon the student's individual learning needs. I know how challenging it is to teach scripted lessons.
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
17 Oct 12
I worked as an online tutor for an Australian for about 3 months. It wasnt from any website as such. He was known to my ex-boss and he had arranged for this online tutoring thing paying me around 7USD per hour (it was in 2007). It was about website development - the HTML, CSS and MySQL stuff. We communicated via the Skye - for the voice and video. We also needed some screenshare hence used Logmein(this wasnt free and was on the Firm's Account).
I guess, you would surely be going to need a better internet connection at least with a webcam and skype. Though the exact requirements depend on what you are going to teach and as you are going for this tutoring via Craiglist or some sites you should consult them prior to finalizing what you need because there are a few which allow only textual interaction between the students and the teacher. So please read those list of How-to's on the site and if in doubts please also feel free to contact them...
(this would be wiser as they might seize you earnings in case you dont abide by their guidelines)
(this would be wiser as they might seize you earnings in case you dont abide by their guidelines)1 person likes this
@aireanna18 (1914)
• United States
18 Oct 12
Wow, that is great information. Thank you. I will look into some of the online tutoring websites to get a better understanding of the criteria for tutoring.
@aireanna18 (1914)
• United States
18 Oct 12
Thank you for the information. I will check out the website.
@deazil (4730)
• United States
17 Oct 12
There is an online tutoring site called italki. They tutor languages. You might find some information there. I think they are always looking for tutors. Of course the information on their site may be specific just to them, but it might help you out a little. Good luck!
@aejey322 (1004)
• Philippines
17 Oct 12
Actually it was not me. It was my friend who is used to do tutorials online. They have a local office here. And the office will assign you a foreign student who enrolled their service. Then you are assigned for a scheduled time to communicate with the student. They used Skype. She was doing English tutorials then. It was merely like just translating words to English. Her student was a Japanese. They were paid on an hourly basis. But she already stopped doing it when she was employed as a real teacher in a Japanese school here in Davao.
Why don't you try applying for it? If you love teaching then I'm sure you're gonna enjoy it! 
@aireanna18 (1914)
• United States
18 Oct 12
Thank you for the information. I have never used Skype before. Is it easy to use Skype?
@mrsuniega (786)
• Philippines
17 Oct 12
yes there is. my cousin in Baguio is working as an online tutor. she teaches korean kids to learn the basic of english language. I think she applied for this in their office in Baguio. I'm not aware if there is any website for this kind of job. If there is well Im glad to know.
@varier (5685)
• Indonesia
17 Oct 12
I don't know for sure, but I think most online tutoring sites would require someone to have fluent English speaking skills? I am not really confident with my English speaking, so perhaps this kind of job is not suitable for me? 
Because so far, I never heard any online tutoring sites for Indonesian..
Because so far, I never heard any online tutoring sites for Indonesian.. 