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We do all our tutoring on-site or online with our own tutors in our own programs for several reasons:</div>
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<li>Outside services typically have inferior training, when they have any, or make you do all the work for it.<br>
</li><li>Outside services have virtually no oversight to protect from cheating or other inappropriate tutoring methods.</li><li>Most outside, online services are always open and encourage students to be studying and tutoring at all hours of the night. Students may do that anyway, but it is not in their best interest to do so and we do not want to be complicit in encouraging it.
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</li><li>Ultimately, whether a student gets good tutoring from these services is hit-and-miss. If they get a good tutor, then great! This certainly happens with the legitimate services. But they are just as likely to get a bad tutor, and you have limited control
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</li><li>Students have access to outside services if they want it whether we endorse it or not, so why spend time and energy doing it when we have our own?
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<div>So as much work as it may be, we prefer to use our own internal tutoring services, because we know how good they are and can put controls in. Students can use our tutoring for free and we know they are getting good tutoring that is specific to our university
from tutors we train and monitor ourselves. If students go to outside sources, that is ok and is on them. I admit that I am biased against profit-based educational programs, which I feel will often lean on shoddy practices if it will make them more money.
But I also I think Knack and Tutor.com are legit companies and better than nothing. I just don't think they are as good as using college-supported programs run by professional educators whose sole reason to be is helping students be successful. All that said,
I completely understand that some schools do not have the resources to provide their own programs, and even ours is limited by budget concerns. But that is my two-cents worth.
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 14, 2021 6:09 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [FCLCA] Outside tutoring companies</font>
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Hi everyone,</div>
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I hope you are doing well. We have heard that UF is using Knack and is reportedly happy with them. My dean is wondering if any other schools are using outside tutoring companies (Smartthinking, Knack, or others) to supplement the tutoring that you provide.
If you are, please share which company, what courses they support, how you fund them and at what level, what type of utilization you get, and what your thoughts are. Thank you all!</div>
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<span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(31,73,125)">Best wishes,</span></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(192,0,0)">-Jennifer</span></b></p>
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