Why Tutors Home?

A lot of capable tutors including professionals, university students who do part-time tutoring experience a common difficulty: they find it hard to promote their tutoring service. Some of them put flyers on notice board, which has some effect but not good enough to reach large number of students. This is also a very time consuming process. On the other hand, this is also a problem for students: many of them want to find tutors but simply don't know how. Some tried to look at notice board or newspaper, but their options are very limited. They also found that flyers can not provide enough information to judge if a tutor is suitable --- they want to know more before hiring a tutor!

As a result, we created Tutors Home. She allows tutors to advertise online without any cost, and allows students to search a large selection of tutors for free. For students, information volume is the key -- since Tutors Home has large number of tutors, students can choose the most suitable one quickly and easily. When a student is choosing a tutor, this tutor's reliability is also critical to their decision. At Tutors Home, a tutor can invite his /her previous students to leave feedbacks. Tutors will have different "rating" based on the number of feedbacks he receives from students.

History of Tutors Home

In 2003, three 3rd -year computer science students from the University of Auckland decided to build a website to help students who want to find tutors, and tutors who wish to have more students.

Traditionally, students find tutors by looking at notice board, and tutors market themselves by go around the campus and put up notice. This is time consuming, and is not effective either because notices get tore off or overlapped quickly. Why don't we create a place where information is easy to access, advertisements don't get removed, and a large number of tutors to choose from?

Tutors Home was launched in July 2003. We started off inviting friends to join the site --- since we were Auckland University students, most of the early tutors were from the same university.

Now, all co-founders of Tutors Home are I.T. professionals under employments. However we have not forgotten Tutors Home. In stead, more and more voluntary developers, marketing representatives are involved in this project. We have been actively working on Tutors Home to improve functions, user interface and usability. The motivation of doing this project is mainly encouragements from both tutors and students. As of March 2006 we have helped hundreds of students successfully find tutors. We received many encouraging letters from users, which make us feel this project very enjoyable.

The Future of Tutors Home

Will we continue to work on Tutors Home? Yes of course we'll do! This is an interesting project and we pride ourselves to be able to contribute to New Zealand education.

In future, we will provide more services for our registered tutors. For example, we can hold workshops and activities so that tutors would have a lot of chances to exchange experience and knowledge in this 'HOME'. We may also provide professional training to the people who want to be a tutor or the tutors who want to develop skills with a higher degree of level. This is our plan.