Category: General Announcements

Session of the Week + Report Card Links

SESSION OF THE WEEK

Congratulations to Session of the Week winner, Sejal Patel, who very patiently adapted her instruction to this student. Well done Sejal! Your $25 bonus will be included with your next paycheck.

(Opens session PDF in new tab.)

Nominate one of your own awesome sessions via the submission form.

TUTOR REPORT CARD LINKS

Each of you should have a link to your unique Tutor Report Card which is updated weekly with your recent sessions and performance rankings.

If you do not have a link for your report card, please search your email inbox (and spam folder) for an email from Raj containing this information.

If you are unable to find it, email us at tutor.support@yup.com and we would be more than happy to provide it.

— Team Yup

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“Thank You” from Yup User

We recently received a message from a Yup student named Alyssa G that we are overjoyed to share with you. Alyssa is a community college student in Sacramento, California and reached out to us with the following comments:

The fact that our users go out of their way to send us nice messages like this speaks volumes about what we are doing!  Keep up the awesome work everyone. ?

–Team Yup

Introducing: Concept Snapshot Library v1.0!

In a nutshell: The new Concept Snapshot Library, found at yupimages.imgur.com, has hundreds of topic-specific images that can be dragged onto your Tutor Whiteboard at a moment’s notice. Watch the video below and give it a test drive with the practice whiteboard!

Whether they’re used to generate “aha” moments or create long-term study aids, clear and informative pictures can have an enormous impact on student learning. Until now, you either had to draw them from scratch or download them from the web. Once you’ve had a chance to use the Concept Snapshot Library in real sessions, please be sure to let us know how useful you found it.

Important Notes: A few of the images are animated gifs that won’t stay animated on your whiteboard. However since they can be especially helpful, you can keep the animation by saving them to your system and uploading them with the “Send Image” button. Also, some images may appear to be missing information due to Imgur’s black background. Right-click these and “Open Image in New Tab” to see them on a white background. 

Again, we encourage you to send useful images to tutor.support@yup.com if you feel that other tutors would benefit from them.

Regards,

Team Yup

Quiz Time! How well do you know your tags?

In a nutshell: Now that you’ve had a chance to get used to the new tagging system, it’s time for a quiz!

First, we want to commend everyone on the vibrant News Feed discussions so far. Great job! We look forward to seeing more of your contributions.

This quiz will test your understanding of the new tag system. It’s essentially a matching game, so if you’ve read the descriptions even once, you all should ace it on the first or second try! Please take it as soon as possible and no later than next Tuesday at 5PM Pacific Daylight Time.

Keep up the great work,

Team Yup

Introducing: Tutor Contributions!

In a nutshell: In order to build a stronger sense of community within the Yup Tutor Team, we would like to invite you to contribute to the Newsfeed in the form of discussion questions, polls or written pieces.

Perhaps the most unique aspect of being an online educator is working with a team of people who you may never have the chance to meet face-to-face. Yup imagetutors can be found all over the globe– but we are hoping to bring our team a little closer together by opening up the Yup Newsfeed to tutor-generated content!

We are excited to welcome your Newsfeed contributions in the following forms:

1. Propose a question to be answered by the tutor community that would stimulate meaningful discussion and encourage collaboration

– Discussion prompts that spark relevant professional conversation (“How do you motivate a student that doesn’t want to engage?”)

–Questions related to your area of expertise (“How do you approach teaching problems related to ______?”

– Surveys/Polls (“What is your go-to online tool for ______?”)

These questions should be clear, relevant, and relatable to the community.

2. Help us get to know you on a personal level by telling us more about yourself

– Write an autobiographical piece that lets other tutors know who you are (Why did you become an educator? What are your passions?)

– Write an opinion piece/editorial that ties into the theme of education (What is your opinion of the current educational system in your country? How has technology shaped the way you teach?)

All tutor-generated Newsfeed posts will support comment submissions, money-iconand contributors are expected to interact with comments left on their Newsfeed post. Each month, the contributor with the highest level of engagement via the comment section will be rewarded with a $25 bonus!

To get involved with this exciting new venture, send your post proposals to tutor.support@yup.com. We look forward to hearing from you– let’s bring this incredible community of educators a little closer together!

— Team Yup

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