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Director of Academic Support

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Student

Director of Academic Support
Your student population is changing. More students are enrolled in online classes. More students are juggling multiple job responsibilities along with their school work and now you?ve been asked to bring online tutoring and/or advising to your students.

Now what? Ultimately the decision becomes do you want to build a home-grown solution or do you want to buy a commercial platform.

 
 AskOnline 
 VS 
 Build Homegrown 
Training 
 Training provided by AskOnline professional trainers 
 
 Who on your staff will provide training?        
User Support 
 AskOnline provides all admin and tutor support 
 
 Will one person be responsible, is it their only area of focus? 
Documentation 
 AskOnline provides Admin, Tutor and Student Guides 
 
 Who will be responsible for creating written documentation? 
Product Updates 
 New features and improvements are constantly being made. Many of these are customer driven. You benefit from the activities of the entire AskOnline community. 
 
 How much customization will be required, will it effect existing technology licensing agreements? How long will product improvement requests take? 
Time to Launch Program 
 Turnkey solution that can be launched in less than one month.                                                 
 
 What is the priority of this project given the existing list of IT projects? 

With AskOnline, it?s simple to get your online tutoring or advising program up and running in a matter of weeks. With a home grown solution, it is not unusual for it to take more than a year to get off of the ground. With retention a more critical issue than ever, can you afford to wait that long to provide this invaluable service to your students?

With AskOnline, it's easy to:
  1. Provide online tutoring and advising services to your students using your own tutors
  2. Review transcripts of tutoring or advising sessions
  3. Set up groups within the system to track at-risk students
  4. Link multiple campuses with multiple resources, to maximize your outreach in a cost-effective manner
  5. Make valuable information easily accessible to all students
  6. Run standard and custom reports for payroll purposes, risk management
  7. Send messages to individuals or groups without leaving the system

To set up a demo, email demo@askonline.net or call (888) 818-9914 today!

Tutor

You'd like to pick up a little extra income by tutoring at your school's Tutoring Center but with the price of gas, sometimes it costs more than you'd earn to drive to the center just to tutor one or two students. And with your hectic schedule, the times you are available aren?t always the times that your center is open. With AskOnline, you have the flexibility to reach out to the students at your school in a convenient, online environment that you can access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. With an internal messaging system, it?s easy for you to share information with the tutoring director, other tutors as well as the students.

The wide-range of communication and scheduling tools within AskOnline makes it easy to support:
  1. Real-time and a-synchronous communication with students
  2. Drop-in hours or pre-scheduled private appointments with students
  3. Math-based subject areas that require the use of mathematical symbols not found on the standard keyboard
  4. Subject areas where a/v capabiltiies can facilitate a verbal conversation between you and your students
  5. Collaborative and individualized on-on-one learning
AskOnline makes it easy for you to connect with your school's students from anywhere you have an internet connection. With access to all of AskOnline's communication, scheduling, and messaging functionality, you have all the tools you need to provide online tutoring, regardless of where you are.

To request a demo for the person who manages tutoring and advising at your school, email demo@askonline.net or call (888) 818-9914 today!

Student

Maybe you have been struggling with the paper that is due in your History class and your professor has suggested you reach out to a writing tutor, but you work two jobs to help pay for school. Maybe you are an online student who lives in an entirely different State than where your school is located. Even if you live on campus, near the Tutoring Center, there may be times where when you need to ask a tutor a question and the center may be closed.

Tutoring and advising absolutely can have an impact on your success but if you can't get to the resources available to you, are you really able to do your best? AskOnline helps you to connect with the tutors and advisors that already are available at your school. Regardless of where you are or what other responsibilities you are juggling, you can receive the academic support that you need by connecting within AskOnline. AskOnline is a safe, convenient online environment designed specifically to support your academic support needs.

  1. Chat with your tutorsand/or advisors during scheduled online drop-in hours
  2. Post a question to a tutor or advisor any time, day or night
  3. Connect with your tutors or advisors even when you are not on campus
  4. Schedule a private one-on-one meeting with a tutor or advisor
  5. Search and review previous tutoring and advising sessions
  6. Access resource areas specifically populated for each subject area
  7. Set up your personal notification preferences, receive notificationof a reply to your posting by text, email or both!

To request a demo for the person who manages tutoring and advising at your school, email demo@askonline.net or call (888) 818-9914 today!