Tutoring For Chatterbug

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What if I need to take a week off or am going on vacation?

On your scheduling page, there is an option where you set your tutoring limits that says ‘pause tutoring’. This will take you off our appointments list until you set yourself live again. If you can,…

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Tips to get your level up

Change your availability to better fit your availability to get your confirmation and attendance rate up. Download the app so you never miss an appointment again for your attendance rate and your on-…

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Tutor Dashboard - Levels

How to read the levels section of your tutor dashboard: Levels. Levels are here to help you (and us) better track your reliability statistics. Your level is based entirely on objective and quantifiab…

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How to be a Successful Tutor

One of the most important parts of learning to speak and understand a language is by practicing speaking and listening. However, this can be stressful and frustrating for students, especially in the…

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The Chatterbug Tutor Tour

Take a quick tour to know how Chatterbug works and what you need to do to become everyone's favorite tutor. Ready, set, go: Tutor Tour Intro.

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What happens when I reject or cancel appointments?

Appointments are suggestions that we think would probably work for both parties. If you reject them occasionally, that’s totally fine. If it happens a lot, we may contact you to see if you would like…

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What if a student doesn’t show up to a lesson?

If the student doesn’t show up within 10 minutes of the lesson start time, you can exit the lesson; the student will still be charged for the lesson, and you will still be paid for the missed lesson.…

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What happens if the student doesn’t like me?

At the end of every lesson, both you and the student rate each other. We ask you about friendliness, sound and video quality, how enjoyable the session was and if you would like to work with the othe…

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Tutor calendar

Lesson List View. The list view will be your default view of all of your upcoming Live Lessons. Here you can see all of your next lessons clearly, with the username and avatar of the student. This lo…

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Setting up your Digital Classroom

You've taken the The Chatterbug Tutor Tour , you've read How to be a Successful Tour , and now are ready to tutor your first Live Lesson? Almost. Now it is time to set up your digital 'classroom'. He…

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What happens if I don’t like the student?

If you give a student a thumbs-down, first we'll get in touch with you to find out what's the issue, and then we'll speak with the student to determine why this is happening, and what they could do t…

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What is a Trial Student?

A trial student is a new user who gets 14 days to try out Chatterbug, with unlimited self-study and one Live Lesson. Teaching a trial student is a very special task, it’s the students’ very first imp…

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What if I don’t show up to a lesson?

Tutor cancellation policy. If you don’t show up to the lesson within 10 minutes of the lesson start time, you will not be paid for the lesson. We are also updating the tutor cancellation/missed lesso…

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What is the W-8 form?

The W-8 form is a tax form reserved for non-US residents earning an income from a US-based company like Chatterbug. The W-8 form provides our non-US tutors an exemption from traditional US taxes sinc…

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