Tutor Match

As a student, requesting a Tutor Match gives you (or you and a fellow student in the same course) the opportunity to set regularly occurring, weekly sessions with a peer tutor for the full semester.

Tutor Matches provide 1-on-1 or 1-on-2 support. Students are matched with a tutor based on the courses students are enrolled in pending tutor availability. Students and tutors are expected to meet regularly over the course of the spring semester.

Spacing out your study practice and committing to a weekly 50-minute scheduled time is a good learning strategy to help clarify course concepts and answer questions strategically. An additional benefit of a Tutor Match would allow you to develop a working relationship with a peer tutor who can help you achieve your academic goals over time. And since your match is regularly occurring in our WCOnline scheduler, you can rest easy that you always have an appointment confirmed, even during our busiest times of the semester!

• Step 1. Reserve an individual appointment with a tutor for the relevant course using WCOnline, our online scheduling platform.
• Step 2. Make note of your tutor’s name, time, and date of your session in our online scheduling platform. This info is also included in the confirmation email you are sent.
• Step 3. Complete this online Tutor Match request form (coming January 12th).

When you confirm your first individual tutoring session in WCOnline, our scheduling platform, we will try to maintain that Tutor Match request with the original tutor.

If you learn about the Tutor Match program while in a tutoring session with your tutor (i.e., they tell you about the program during your tutoring session), please use the confirmation of that session within your request form, but you must make the request within the same day that your session occurred. We will do our best to set up a Tutor Match with that tutor, pending availability.

If you are interested in a Paired Tutor Match (you and a friend meet with the same tutor), please follow the above three steps AND indicate your interest in the Paired Tutor Match within the request form. If you need assistance, send an email to Dr. Erickson with help adding your friend. Be sure to read through our Pair Appointment instructions here.

Please be aware that we will attempt to fill all requests while availability allows.

Any student enrolled in spring or summer semesters at Vanderbilt are allowed and encouraged to make a Tutor Match request by following the steps above.

Matches for students will be made beginning the second week of the spring semester and will continue until spaces are filled.

Spaces are limited. Each tutor’s total number of Tutor Matches may not exceed half of their weekly tutoring hours. Once a tutor has reached the maximum Tutor Match commitments, that tutor will no longer be set up with any further matches, and their remaining available hours will be accessible on our WCOnline schedule via the regular first-come, first-served process.

Tutor Match requests are always considered and filled during the first half of the spring semester. After Spring Break, we will no longer take requests for Tutor Matches unless there are extenuating circumstances.

Please note that you are expected to attend each session, as the goal of the Tutor Match program is to set up a strong, scheduled tutoring relationship for the benefit of both student and tutor. If you are unable to attend one session, please cancel your session on WCOnline prior to its meeting time.

If you cancel two appointments in a row, prior to the start of the tutoring session, we will reach out to you about the best fit of your Tutor Match. You are always welcome to discontinue the Tutor Match program at any time and resume the regular individual appointments or group Roundtable appointments, at no penalty.

Tutor Match aligns with all Tutoring policies regarding missed appointments, i.e., more than three missed appointments (“no-shows”) will result in a disabled account. Please see here for the full explanation.

Please contact Dr. Miriam Erickson at miriam.erickson@vanderbilt.edu with any questions about requesting a session for Tutor Match.