THINGS TO KNOW: TUTORS

Thank you for considering Frontline Tutors! We believe that excellence in education is achievable, and we welcome you to join us in providing a superior academic experience to students. 

Frontline Tutors has evolved to become an online tutoring marketplace where students and educators connect.

As a tutor with Frontline Tutors, you’re empowered to reach a broader audience, and expand your student base. We offer a variety of features, like scheduling tools, online whiteboards, video conferencing. We handle the payment process, and the tutoring operations from start to finish. Most tutors want to teach and not be bothered with the logistics involved within the tutoring process. Frontline Tutors endeavors to make the entire experience simple and pleasant for all users. 

Interested in being a tutor? Join our platform! We simply ask that all tutors commit to helping students achieve their academic goals. 

Sign up to be a tutor: Click on the 'New Tutor Sign Up' link and fill in all the requested information. You will be notified once your profile becomes live. 

Tutoring offerings: There are various tutoring sessions available for students in elementary school through high school and college, Graduate School, and students taking various professional exams across numerous fields including academic test preparations. There are limitless tutoring opportunities.

Tutor profile: This should typically include your picture, a brief write-up/snapshot of who you are and what you offer as a tutor, educational qualifications and personal interests, etc. Be positive and relatable, offer a glimpse of your passion to improve understanding academic concepts. You’re encouraged to write in complete and proper sentences and do not use resume formatting. Sell your tutoring abilities - keep it conversational and make it captivating! 

Eligibility: You must be at least 18 years old and eligible to work within the US to tutor on this platform.

Tutoring Calendar/Availability: You set up your tutoring availability within your profile. Click the actions tab and there’s a drop down to set availability, select the available start and end times, click the dates applicable, and click 'Save'. Alternatively, you can create availability for several dates at once by clicking the 'Mass Create' button and filling in the details. Students may book lessons based on tutor availability shown within the calendar - make sure your availability within your tutor calendar remains current.

Tutoring options: You can teach 1-1 or a group of students. The maximum number of students in a group is 10 students and these spots are filled on a first come, first served basis.

Tutoring requests: Generally speaking, tutoring requests are made up of lessons. The duration and frequency of the lessons vary depending on the subject matter and progress made. You may offer one-time lessons for students who need help with a specific assignment or exam, or offer ongoing lessons to help students build a strong foundation in a particular subject that could span days, weeks or months.

There are a few ways that tutoring requests are made:

1. Admin may send out tutoring opportunities for tutors to indicate their interest.
2. Students may book lessons by selecting available time slots within a tutor's calendar.
3. Students may submit specific tutoring requests using the Tutoring Request Form.
4. You can submit a Tutoring Intent Form, indicating your intent to facilitate a tutoring request that is made up of lessons that may span a few days, weeks or months.

Tutoring Intent Form:  You can use this to submit specific requests to teach something that may not currently be offered. It can be in any subject and is typically made up of lessons spanning a few days, weeks or months, it is usually put together for a group of students.

Reports: After lessons, you can provide an overview of the progress made and student performance for parent/student review.

Tutoring opportunities: Within your tutor profile you are able to see some of the current tutoring opportunities. (Available jobs).

Tutoring Resources: The platform allows for you to upload your teaching materials using various files and content for lessons. In addition, you can create, administer and assess various assignments for students. Tutors determine the content they want to use to tutor each student and are empowered to adapt to individual student’s needs. Tutors are not restricted by delineated cookie-cutter lesson plans.

Tutoring Dashboard: The platform is intuitive for all users and has a user guide located in the top right hand of your dashboard that explains the platform features - with most articles having accompanying short videos and or screenshots for our more visual users. Within your dashboard, you see your assigned tutoring requests (My Jobs). Once clicked, it provides additional information and you can schedule the accompanying lessons, upload documents etc. It also gives you access to available tutoring requests for your consideration, your calendar, tutor payments, documents, reports, lesson recording etc. 

Video recording: Online sessions are recorded and are accessible.

Canceling a lesson: When necessitated, a student may request to cancel a lesson. Note: The cancel request must be submitted at least 24-hours prior to the scheduled lesson, for a refund to be processed. 

No show: If a student does not attend a scheduled lesson and fails to cancel the lesson, it would be considered as a 'no-show' and therefore is non-refundable.

Correspondence: It is strongly encouraged that correspondence remains professional. Please refrain from sharing personal and business addresses, phone numbers, places of work, or any other identifying contact information for social networking sites (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.), or links to personal or business websites. 

Payments: All tutoring payments are sent to tutors bimonthly and no taxes are withheld from the earnings. 

Refunds: If a student is no longer able to attend a scheduled lesson, the student must cancel the lesson at least 24-hours prior for a refund to be issued.



You are your own boss!

As a tutor, you are independent.

Tutoring Payments: These are sent bimonthly with no taxes withheld from the earnings and no checks are generated. For tutoring services provided between the 1st - 15th of a month, you receive the payment on the 25^th of that month, while services provided between the 16^th and the end of the month, you receive that payment on the 10^th of the following month. 

1099s: These are generated (if applicable) based on earnings within the calendar year. As a tutor, if you earned more than $600 within the calendar year from this platform, you would receive a 1099 postmarked no later than January 31st of the following year. This is reported as earnings to the IRS. If less than $600 is earned within the calendar year, nothing will be generated or reported.

No W2s are generated.

All tutors will be required to submit filled IRS W9 and I9 forms.

Frontline Tutors LLC is not an employer and tutors on the Frontline Tutors platform are not employees. Frontline Tutors cannot verify employment requests nor serve as a work reference.

 Tips for Getting Prepared:  

• Be prepared. Show up early before your scheduled tutoring lesson start time. 
• Be sure you have a working webcam, microphone, and headphones, and test them ahead of time to be sure they work. Look directly into the computer's camera. You may want to consider using headphones with inbuilt microphones for greater sound efficiency.
• Set up your computer/laptop in a quiet, clutter-free area. 
• Dress appropriately. 
• Know each student's name. 
• Listen attentively. Ask clarifying questions to be sure students understand. If you are unsure of the answer, be honest and let the student know that you will get back to them once you have the right answer. 
• Demonstrate competence, compassion, and patience.
• Speak with clarity and concision. 
• Be confident. 
• Communicate to your students that you are fully vested in their success! 

Together, let’s help students get to the Front of the Line! 

Please note: Tutors cannot take a test nor write an exam for a student. Also, they do not do homework nor complete papers, take quizzes nor anything that is originally assigned to the student. The tutoring services cannot and will not conflict with academic honesty.