Announcements – Page 35 – Yup Tutor Community

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 tutors 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, and 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

Discussion:

Introducing: Session of the Week!

In a nutshell: Each week, the Yup Team will choose and share one OUTSTANDING session. If your session is chosen, you will receive a $25 bonus! Use the form below to nominate one session per week.

Starting today, we will begin accepting nominations of notable sessions that exemplify Yup standards. The Yup Team will select the most impressive session each week to feature here on the Newsfeed as ‘Session Of the Week‘.

Tutor Quality Managers will be nominating any stand-out sessions they come across, and you are welcome to self-nominate your own awesome sessions via the form below (one per week).

Not only will the featured sessions set a great example for our Tutor Team, but if your session is chosen, you will receive a $25 bonus!

Have a great weekend!

— Team Yup

Coming Soon: New Tags!

In a nutshell: Our new tagging system goes live soon! Check out how it works on slide 8 of the Tutor Policies doc.

The engineering team will incorporate the new tags into your Tutor Dashboard on the night of Friday, August 26th. (FYI: the Session Categorization document, linked to in slide 7, still refers to the old tagging system.)

The new tagging system has multiple benefits. Most importantly it will improve:

Your performance. Along with feedback scores for non-Gap Clarification Phase (GCP) sessions, the new tags will allow you to see more targeted, relevant information about GCP sessions.
Our Quality Assurance system. The new tags will let us fairly and efficiently filter out sessions (testing app, cheating, wrong subject etc.) that should not affect your percentage of GCP sessions.
Yup Team metrics. The new tags will provide our product, engineering, and operations teams with useful information about what’s happening in individual sessions.

If you have any questions about the new tagging system, feel free to email tutor.support@yup.com.

Regards,

Team Yup

Tutor Review State now 20 seconds!

In a nutshell: Starting today, August 19th, we’re reducing the Tutor Review State time period from one minute to twenty seconds.

We’ve updated the Tutor Review State Guide to reflect this change. The guidelines in prior posts about the Review State still apply, and you all still need to take the Pop Quiz we posted last week!

You’ll keep using the time in the Review State to understand the student’s assignment and get a sense of which ideas it covers. The difference is that now, you’ll more quickly start talking to your students about what they know and what issues they’re having. If you absolutely need more time to review the problem, simply ask for it after you introduce yourself, like so: I’ll need another moment to finish looking over your problem and then we’ll get started. Thanks for your patience! Note that we’re also keeping the Yup Bot in order to set student expectations and collect their work.

This decision is the result of weeks of data showing that the one-minute Review State doesn’t significantly impact important measures like the percentage of sessions reaching Gap Bridged. Our hypothesis: trying too hard to strategize without live input from the student produces marginal benefits at the cost of making anxious students wait for help!

Regards,

Team Yup

Grade Disputes + Report Card Updates

In a nutshell:
– Grades can now be disputed when off by 2 or more points
– Contact Kelsea to discuss improving Report Cards

Grade Disputes & Rubric 2.2
Rubric 2.2 is here, and we have adjusted the Grade Dispute policy to match. While you previously needed a score that was incorrect by three or more points to qualify for a grade dispute, you can now dispute session scores you feel are off by two or more points.

The biggest change that comes with Rubric 2.2? You will no longer be expected to write an overview before moving into the Explanation Phase. Instead, we are focusing on these six key teaching aspects to assess your sessions:

(While this change is not yet reflected on your Tutor Dashboard’s feedback system, you may have noticed that the areas we no longer grade automatically receive a “Yes”.)

Quality Assurance Report Cards
Received a less-than-perfect Report Card? Get in touch with our Training Coordinator, Kelsea, at tutor.support@yup.com or kelsea@yup.com. She will look into your recent sessions and suggest ways to improve your performance and get those Report Card numbers where they need to be.

Happy tutoring!

— Team Yup