Center for Academic Resources

• One-on-one tutoring is available for all courses tutoring is offered for with the exception of courses being tutored in small groups. With one-on-one tutoring, you will meet individually with a tutor for assistance with your course material.

• Group tutoring is available for a select group of the courses we offer tutoring for, such as chemistry, biology, physics, and math. With these sessions you will be meeting with a tutor and up to four other students in the same course. These students may or may not be known to you.

All tutoring sessions are held in the Center. If there are concerns with computer software or models needed to review while tutoring that we do not have available, please reach out to the staff with your specific concern. Any tutoring done outside of our Center must have Director approval. 

You can be tutored for a total of 5 hours a week and for no more than 90 minutes in any one tutoring session.

If we have a tutor available for the course you are looking for assistance in, you can schedule an appointment as soon as 18 hours from now or as far in advance as 7 days by clicking on the “Find a Tutor” link below or heading to Navigate from the UWOsh home page or your Navigate app. 

If we do not have a tutor available for the course you are looking for assistance in and it is one we support, please fill out the tutor request form. We will recruit a tutor for the course and provide you with feedback on what steps we are taking during our search. Another option is to inform you about alternative assistance if it is provided at another location on campus.

Recruiting tutors for new courses can happen within minutes or may take several weeks. Some of our current tutors are able to add additional courses to tutor and are already trained and ready to assist right away. Finding new tutors varies in duration due to the number of students that have taken the course and are still on campus, when the course was last offered, our eligibility requirements, response time to emails from both students and faculty, and students’ interest and/or availability to be a tutor. The student may also need to complete hiring paperwork (with employment approval required by Human Resources) and four hours of tutor training before they would be available to tutor.

Although we make every attempt to recruit tutors based on need, please be aware that this is not always possible.

Find a Tutor

• One-on-one tutoring: To find a tutor, select the link below and follow the instructions on the page.

                                                                                               Find a Tutor

• Biology 212, Chemistry 101, 102, 106, Physics 171 and 191 Tutoring: Use the Find a Tutor link above. Due to high demand for tutoring in these courses, these will be held as small groups with 1-5 students per group. 

• Syllabus

• Textbook

• Lecture Notes and/or PowerPoint Slides

• Questions on the material

We want to be respectful of everyone’s time and needs when utilizing our services. At this time, our tutors are responsible for coordinating their tutoring session times with each student who contacts them for assistance into their open availability. Although we appreciate your initiative to plan ahead, we cannot guarantee the response time of any employee outside of this time frame.

With 10-20 SI Leaders each semester, we work diligently to coordinate the best possible location and times to provide the review sessions for each course offered. This coordination is completed with other departments, the leaders, and the availability of rooms. We want to take the necessary time to confirm all details before they are posted online to avoid any confusion with changes that may occur before they are confirmed.

If there are no tutors available for the class we support, you can submit a tutoring request form (link provided below).

Request a Tutor

We try our best to fulfill these requests, but are not always able to do so. In the event that we are not able to find a tutor to help you, below are some additional options you can consider:

• Speak with your professor

• Visit the department’s website to see if they offer any academic support services

• Speak with classmates to see if you can form a study group together

Some departments do offer their own tutoring services during the fall and spring semesters. Please check their websites or contact them for more information.

• Geology Department

• Mathematics Department

• Accounting Department

• Economics Department

• Physics Department

Yes, as long as the course is offered through UWO you are able to receive tutoring in our Center. Please be aware that you will need to either conduct the session online or meet in person at the Center. If a tutor is not available for your course please let us know so we can determine if it may be possible to hire and recruit someone.