Tutor on Wyzant

I’ve been using this app for a while and it really helps me to get students and get my name out there as a tutor. I would like the exams on the app to be more specific and more of a wider range. For example, it only tests ‘calculus’ skills but could test for Calc 1, Calc 2, Calc 3, differential equations, real analysis, complex analysis. All these subjects fall under the umbrella of calculus but to say you can tutor calculus because you took a Calc exam and got qualified is a pretty big ambiguity if you’re looking for a higher or lower level of the specific overarching subject as the student seeking a tutor. But even still, this is a great app to get your name out there and make some money on the side.

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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.

Wyzant provides an invaluable service to my tutoring business, and truth be told, without Wyzant I wouldn’t have near the success that I do. For tutors specifically, even with the cut that they take (which has improved vastly this year over last year’s tiered system) the Wyzant service provides a great tool for finding clients. The app itself is good. Improvements to the usability can certainly be made. For example, and easier way to switch between online and in person jobs would be great. But for what the app intends to provide, I don’t really have any major complaints. Overall, I’m very happy with the Wyzant app and service. The particularly great lesson I just had compelled me to write this review, so perhaps take my glowing recommendation with a grain of salt, but if you tutor, do yourself a favor and get on Wyzant. You won’t regret it.

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The Wyzant site itself has been pretty great in helping me to connect with new students. The whiteboard for online lessons could use some improvements, but that’s a different story. Though convenient for scheduling and messaging, the app is severely limited in comparison to the website. It lacks things such as viewing/editing tutor profile, requesting a rate change, and viewing payment history. There are some other features missing from the app that are available through the actual site, but I understand an app can’t be expected to do *everything* a website can do, and the three listed are most important to me personally. That being said, the app certainly has the potential to be great, but it’s not quite there yet.

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I like that I can easily schedule, edit, and submit lessons on the app. But it’s weird that there will be a red “1” showing you have something undone (an unsubmitted lesson), then when you click on it it doesn’t take you directly where you need to be. I also don’t see a page to view my full profile with my badge levels and other info. This would be nice to see. Another thing is that I like the ability to change my rate for different students, and on a computer it gives me the option to do that when responding to a new student, but the app does not. I would like to see this app include more of these features to make it parallel to the Web site. I am more often on my phone than my laptop.