Clarenden Hills Public Library has a new free service pair for card holders that provide online on-demand tuition, homework help, test preparation and writing aids for those in Kindergarten through adults in more than 60 subjects.
Tutor.com was added to Clarenden Hills in mid -January and provides daily tutors from 3 to 10 pm, in which no appointment is necessary. The service also offers drop-off reviews, practice quiz, video lessons, and Princeton Review, and SAT/Act Essential for Self-Stadi, which is available 24 hours, seven days a week. Expert tutors on tutor.com can help work through a difficult homework problem, can improve writing skills, study for a test, a difficult concept, and much more.
Labori Craft, director of the library, said, “We added it because we know how important the educational success is for the parents of school-class children in Clarendon Hills.” “Because this service is available every day from 3 to 10 pm, if a student needs help in understanding a certain concept or helps to detect a specific homework question, they have someone to reach someone, even if the parents are not homes.”
Kraft said that she likes Tutor.com as it is available every day and can be used from home.
“This means that someone has to drive the child to meet with a tutor,” he said. “I also like that if you are writing a paper or essay for the classroom, you can send it to Tutor.com and give proof to someone and react to improve it.”
Kraft stated that the online tuition service is different from in-purson tutoring, which performs one-on-one work with a child through text-or voice-chat to tutors and uses an interactive whiteboard to share the work and ideas.
“As long as you have a Clarenden Hills Public Library Card and a device attached to the Internet, you can join a tutor wherever you are,” he said.
“For seven hours of availability in a day, it’s a great deal,” said Shilp.
He said that the newness of service makes it difficult to gauge the use at this point.
“It’s quite new that we are still trying to get the word out of it,” he said. “We would definitely like to build use.”
A middle school student using Tutor.com for mathematics has been affected by service.
The student said, “My tutor was very welcome and very intelligent in helping me.” “She went out of her way to help me understand me better, so how to break the problem of my mathematics word, so I knew what I need to find and solve what to find.”
More information about tutor.com is available on the library website www.clarendonhillslibrary.org.
Chak Fieldman is a freelance reporter for Pioneer Press.