Are you a teacher or an educational organization that aims at making the learning process more effective? You must have been dealing with face-to-face class problems because of the current situation in the world. Are you worried about your online classes?

Maybe you as a teacher or teaching company want to have a place where your students can revise, strengthen their knowledge of certain fields and learn something new. Maybe you want to use technology to meet your educational needs as it is getting connected with education more closely with each passing day.

What about building an online tutoring platform where you can facilitate your lessons in the best and optimal way, allowing your students to see some updates or the materials already covered?

1. Do Research!

• You should define how your tutoring platform is going to be different from many others, or how you are planning to make it better. You can combine some innovative methods and create something new which will provide your platform’s uniqueness. So try not to copy what already exists, as it will not make you competitive in the tutoring planet.   

• You had better do a SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound) analysis. This will help know your strong and weak points, your pros and cons, how relevant your ideas are, how high the possibility of succeeding is, etc. 

• To start building an online tutoring platform, you will surely need some money. But can you afford to build a platform and take care of its progress in the virtual world? In order to clarify this issue, you should also define your resources: both financial and human. 

• Write a budget to realize what needs and capabilities you have. If you lack money, try to find fundraising platforms or other donors to support you on your way to building the platform.
  
• Build a strong team. Are you worried? Don’t you know how to find people, or where to start from? Oh, no worries! Try to contact reliable people with whom you are familiar and who would love to be a part of your activities. If there are not any, you can open a call on social media platforms to look for some enthusiasts to join your team. Make sure that your team consists of responsible, available, and active people.

• Then pay great attention to the targeting. Which age group is your tutoring platform dedicated to? Do you want to create materials for children, teens, youth, or adults? According to the latter, make your platform in such a way to meet their interests and needs. If it’s for children, attach animations and colors to your educational content. As for teens and youth, put some TEDs, educational games, TOT materials, etc. Adults would love to listen to short but powerful words or look at some inspiring images, and so on. But whatever age group you chose, you can get in touch with all of them, as your activities are going to be launched online. 

Create a website marketplace

Good examples of website marketplace are Yelp, Craigslist, Indeed, Ebay, Expedia, Homeadvisor, Thumbtack, etc. Sign up on social media. Go online with Facebook and Facebook Groups, Twitter, Linkedin, Workplaces, etc. Besides, to start your journey with a tutoring platform, it would be awesome to build an educational website, first, a place where you can put the main information, teaching materials, create courses, etc. Certain web pages allow creating websites without the necessity to hire a developer and other specialists to fill in the content. Some are WIX, HostGator, Squarespace, Site 123, Network Solutions, Tutor Platform, etc. 

Here you should pay attention to the content. Make it succinct, clear, and as clarified as possible. Be personal so that your students feel comfortable while reading your messages and talking to you. The design of your website is also a good component to attract your students. So, try to make it motivating and calming. You can use colors like purple, yellow, black, red, white, which symbolize creativity, positivity, energy, transparency, respectively.

Use data collection methods

Make your website the way that it automatically collects your students' data in one place, using registration forms. Before launching a course, you need to know what the student knows and from where you can start your teaching. So, here the placement tests will come to help you. Due to them, you can get informed about their knowledge level and proficiency. So, you can attach the information gathered from registration forms to the placement tests while onboarding. And in case of any need, you will have all these within reach.

Get paid as quickly as you spend money

Use online payment systems. Your tutoring platform can gather together many students from different corners of the world under one online roof, that’s why you will need an online payment system. It is not as confusing as it may seem. There are various kinds of systems, such as Dwolla, Omise, Due Payments, Square, etc. These and other payment systems allow you to accept payments and manage your online businesses. They are quite flexible and relevant. For instance, Due offers eCash, eChecks, and ACH payment options. Square offers a Cash App, which makes it possible for people to send money to their friends and family. 

Add courses and more teachers. After creating and adding various courses, you should also attach the hours of your availability on your Tutor Marketplace. Then you can already get bookings. As for more teachers, it is not possible to teach different subjects at a time. So you may need to invite qualified teachers to boost the development of your small online school. You will gather more students interested in the fields such as languages, mathematics, logic, IT, SMM, Graphic Design, psychology, physics, etc. in this way, you can create a wide range of opportunities for both the students and the other teachers. 

Integrate CRM System into the platform

• Let interactivity run the learning process. Do you have experience using quizzes, interactive books, or organizing group works and discussions? You should get to know the toolkit provided by many tech experts to make your courses one of the best and effective ones. Try hard to make everything as interactive as possible. Interactivity allows the student to fully integrate into the class. So you can create video and audio materials, multiple choices, matching questions, and other teaching materials as well.

• Understand students’ goals and needs before beginning a course with a student. This is because you should know who is standing behind the monitor so that you can facilitate the lesson in such a way to meet the child’s interests, psychological and educational needs. 

• Make sure to put various languages on your tutoring platform. You can have visitors to your platform from different kinds of nations, which will create a language barrier. If it’s not that easy and you lack the necessary skills, at least put English and your native language.

• Make your platform easy to use. As mentioned above, your content should be succinct. As for the texts, they should be clear and readable.

• Receive feedback from your platform users. This will help you make your page even greater based on people’s opinions. Besides, with the help of the feedback field, your newcomers will be able to easily choose which teacher suits their expectations more. 

Here! We have something special for you.

Are you excited? I am sure you are! So do not lose time anymore and start building your tutoring platform. If you need any help, you can find us on Tutor PLatform, as we have all the best technological and educational solutions mentioned above. Besides making it possible for you to build your own tutoring platform, Tutor Platform helps you get a customized mobile app, analytics, financial management tools, marketing tips, and other Integrations. For more, you can take a close look at COAF Smart Citizen App developed by Tutor Platform,  so as to customize one for your tutoring platform or educational organization as well.

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