Tutoring

UMPI offers comprehensive tutoring support, whether you’re looking for in-person or virtual options. Read on to learn more and get the help you need to excel in your academic pursuits.

Tutoring Center

In conjunction with Student Support Services, the Tutoring Center offers subject area tutoring and writing assistance to all students for all UMPI courses via professional and peer tutors, individually and in small groups. For more information or to schedule a tutoring appointment, visit the Tutor Coordinator on the 1^st floor of the CIL or call 207-768-9461.

You may schedule an appointment for subject area, BrightSpace, or study skills tutoring through the Navigate360 app or through EAB on the myUMPI Portal. If you need assistance with this process, view these instructions.

Writing Center

The UMPI Writing Center offers one-on-one tutoring for writers at all levels of course work, for writing projects of all kinds: from first year composition essays to senior theses, from biology book reviews and criminal justice papers to graduate school application essays.

Student tutors are trained to assist writers at all stages of the writing process, from brainstorming a topic through revising a completed paper. Tutors offer a conversational approach in a confidential, relaxed, non-classroom setting.

Tutors are able to meet in-person in the Center for Innovative Learning or via Zoom. For students who aren’t able to schedule an in-person or online appointment during scheduled hours, asynchronous “e-tutoring” appointments are an option–writers can submit a draft of their assignment and any specific concerns, and the tutor provides comments.

You may schedule an appointment with the Writing Center online through mywconline.com.

Tutor.com

UMPI also offers Tutor.com support, with on-demand 24/7 tutoring for all students. Tutor.com provides immediate access virtually, no matter the time of day or time zone. The student and tutor work together in a secure, online classroom, with an access link provided directly through each Brightspace course. View this short video to learn how Tutor.com works and how to connect. Response time is usually within minutes.

You can find out more information about Tutor.com at this FAQ.

Why Tutoring?

• Personalized, one-on-one attention
• Focused, on-task, extra study time
• Assistance to increase understanding and grades
• Builds study skills
• Test preparation
• Opportunity for advancement
• A chance to ask questions

What You Can Expect from Your Tutor

• Confidentiality
• Responsibility
• Patience
• An active learning experience
• Help with study skills (organization, note taking, studying for exams)
• Ability to model good study and student behaviors
• Content area knowledge
• Problem solving

What You Cannot Expect from Your Tutor

• YOUR PROFESSOR
  A tutor can assist with content and questions but cannot replace a professor.  DO meet with professors before or after class or during office hours to ask questions and clarify content.
• HOMEWORK and READINGS
  Your tutor can help you work through problems associated with your homework, but the tutor will not do the homework for you.  Your tutor can assist you with a particular passage with which you are struggling, but the tutor will not do the reading for you.
• RESCUE YOU
  You should come to tutoring at the first sign of problems and attend all scheduled tutoring sessions.  If you do not apply yourself to the work consistently, attending tutoring at the end of the semester to “cram” will not be effective.  Also, tutors are unable to assist you outside of their regular working hours; procrastinating might not allow for an appointment at the end of the semester.
• REPLACE RESPONSIBILITY
  You must attend class regularly, participate in class, do your homework assignments, read your textbook, and develop a relationship with your instructor to be successful in your courses.
• AN ANSWER TO EVERY QUESTION
  Tutors are well trained and have content knowledge but they cannot be expected to know everything about every course.  Tutors can show you how to find answers to those difficult questions.

What to Bring to the Session

• Sharing questions and materials with your tutor before your session can help them prepare to help you
• Textbooks from which you have already done the readings
• Notes from your classes which you have reviewed
• Past Quizzes or Tests
• Syllabi that you have read and understand
• Completed homework with specific questions regarding problems and concepts
• POSITIVE ATTITUDE!