Attend Online Sessions
Students can access virtual tutoring sessions from their Dashboard.
- Sign in.
- The next upcoming session appears on the left.
- Click Join Now.
The Waiting Room
- From the individual waiting room, grant access to your Camera and Microphone. Click Next.
- Choose the specific devices to use for the session.
- Click I'm Ready.
- At the session start time, the student is brought into the virtual classroom.
Use the Whiteboard
- The classroom opens. Your tutor's video is in the top right. Student video(s) appear below.
- The Control Bar appears at the bottom of your screen. Here you will find:
- Chat: Click to open a text chat between you and the student(s) in the session.
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Share Screen: Choose to share your entire browser, a specific tab, or your screen. Currently, screen sharing is not supported on iPads or mobile devices.
- To share audio, ensure you choose to share your browser tab and check the Share audio box at the bottom.
Note: You aren't able to interact/control your screen share on the whiteboard, but you can annotate on top.
- To share audio, ensure you choose to share your browser tab and check the Share audio box at the bottom.
- Microphone: Click to mute/unmute.
- Camera: Turn your camera off/on.
- Speaker: Turn classroom audio on/off.
- You can click on Tools or right-click on the whiteboard to access the Tool Wheel. Each tool can be used on the whiteboard or on top of screen shares and uploads. Hover over a tool to see additional options.
- Pen: Annotate the screen in different colors.
- Laser: A laser pointer to highlight areas of the whiteboard
- Shape: Add shapes to the screen in different colors
- Line: Add lines in different colors to underline areas of the whiteboard
- Text: Add a text box. There are 4 different height options. The text box resizes after text has been entered.
- Select: Select and move or edit an object on the whiteboard.
- Eraser: Erase specific objects from the whiteboard.
- Clear: Clear the entire whiteboard.
- Click the Page menu under the tutor's video to move to a specific page.
Submit Feedback
- The tutor will end the session at the scheduled end time.
- You’ll be asked to submit feedback on the session.