WyzAnt

The first words that come to my mind are THANK YOU! I am a single mom who got hit by the economy hard and has to re-invent myself due to my chosen career going by the wayside. Therefore, I enrolled myself back in college to start a new degree, new career and Algebra was going to be the downfall of all my plans if I did not pass! After I had done and re-done an assignment over and over until I realized I had done the same problem over seven times and still could not understand the work and therefore could not pass it, I decided to find a tutor. I found Jon who was prompt in responding to me and quick to set up a time to meet in order to help me get through this very stressful assignment. We were able to set up a time within days of my contacting him. When we sat down to go over what I needed to know, he was very patient with me and made me feel at ease. Jon's approach to the assignment was straight- forward and thorough; the algebra problems didn't feel as they were such an enormous task as they did when he walked in the door. When we were finished with my first lesson, I felt as if I would be able to move forward in my studies by myself and was not so intimidated by the work ahead of me. I would highly recommend Jon to anyone who is having problems understanding math. My only wish is that I had contacted him sooner! So, as I said in the beginning, Thank you Jon!
P.s. - I PASSED THE TEST THE DAY WE HAD OUR FIRST LESSON!

Everything is great expect the prices for tutors are increasing quite quickly and I am disabled, bring in a very low amount from the government.

First time looking for a tutor online; great website, easy to navigate, convenient for payments. Will use again in the future.

A great way to find tutoring help from community resources with a convenient, easy-to-use online search, communication and invoicing tool. Perfect!.

I am so please with Lloyd. He's the only one my son really gets motivated for. He has so much respect for his teaching abilities and knowledge.

Wyzant has a few good tutors embedded in their huge list. Many just unemployed with no certification. They are clearly motivated by making money for they raise the fees so they can take forty percent of what teacher ultimately gets. We used them for an entire home school program day. When a tutor, the best one, said that at lunch he did some
Athletic activity with my son, at my request for kids need exercise. It is regents requirement, My son sits with teachers from 9 am to 7:30 pm. He should not have some exercise? 4 people should t herefore be kicked out? Wyzant fired me from their program and all the five tutors we had for using Wyzant with us. The background checks are a joke. What do you get for a few dollars in terms of background. We just had two tutors who pledged to teach cenral subjects till the end of the year district testing BOTH WALKED OUT WITHOUT TELLING US. DROPPED OUT OF THE JOB. Can I say here who they were. Except for a few these people are desperate jobless people who
Are, just like Wyzant out for their own profit and have no compunction about dropping everything without notice. Actually I feel this company should be reviewed by the BBB if they belong. We did get one maybe two dependable "professionals" the other are basically kids of all ages who come and go at will.
Disgusting suck in. Disgusting suck in. Dr. Carol Munschauer PHD

I started with WyzAnt tutoring in March of 2013. It took about 6-8 months to get my first regular solid clients. Once I did, my positive evaluations and word of mouth reputation started to grow my business. My expertise lies in math and science, as I used to be a pharmacist, and there are a broad range of subjects I can help with. It was always the educational side of pharmacy that I enjoyed the most, and now I get to see light bulbs go on in people's minds and understanding take place on almost a daily basis. This does my heart and soul so much good!

WyzAnt provides all of my referrals, and takes care of the business end of things, which I know that I am not very good at. They have handled numerous issues with aplomb, and I always get my direct deposit payments when they say they are coming. I have express pay with them, so I receive payment about 5 days after I enter lesson reports. This means I get paid something almost every day, so I have a nice source of cash flow.

It turns out that I have logged in over 900 hours of tutoring with this company, and I have the honor of being the second most successful tutoring record for the year so far in the Cincinnati/Dayton area for WyzAnt tutors. They recently invited me to join their online platform, and I just gave a pharmacology lesson to two nursing students in other parts of the country because of this! I expect this side of the business to grow slowly, as the local tutoring originally did, but I intend to gradually pull in my driving radius so that I can still serve communities close to me in person, but cater to more students by giving lessons online.

If you have a marketing niche (as I do) and if you follow WyzAnt's Terms of Service rules carefully, it is possible to help many students and make a living doing so over time. I am so glad I accidentally found WyzAnt's website two years ago!

Michelle in Mason, OH.

The best web page ever used to better reading of geometry, maths related, etc the much i like is it is very useful for students

I thought I would share my experience about finding a math tutor for my 5th grade son to hopefully help parents with their own search. After asking other parents and teachers for recommendations and coming up empty-handed, I turned to the Internet and was surprised to find out that there were quite a few Websites that list tutors that provide one-on-one tutoring. I started my tutor search by using Websites such as sittercity.com, care.com, varsitytutors.com, teacheratlas.com, tutor.com, takelessons.com, wyzant.com, tutormatch.com and instaedu.com. All of these Websites seemed to operate in the same way by providing detailed information on their tutors including their hourly rate, background check information, their experience, etc. You generally type in the subject you are looking for a tutor, and you will be presented with a list of tutors. You can then contact the tutors for more information.

Overall, all of these Websites including wyzant.com seem to provide very capable tutors. All of the tutors were very responsive to our questions. While I did not end up selecting a tutor from wyzant.com (we ended up getting a recommendation from a neighbor), I wouldn't hesitate to recommend wyzant.com (or any of these Websites) if you are in need of a tutor.

Wyzant is an excellent online tutoring service. Many opportunities to help students and to earn extra income.

I was very satisfied with the overall experience.
Demonstrated how little I know about what I'm trying to do.
Thanks to Alan and WyzAnt.

I'm so utterly disappointed by the service... :( I requested a lesson from the tutor Andrew N. For chemistry. We scheduled our lesson, I had all of my stuff prepped and was ready to learn, except...
I'm a female college undergrad in chemical engineering, and although he did 'teach me' the lesson, he constantly kept making insinuations that we should have a separate online session so he could "teach me other, more important stuff" (so to say in nicer words). For those of you who aren't getting it, he literally wanted to have online sex with me. When I refused he acted politely, finished giving me my chemistry lesson, and then I got an email the following day from WyzAnt saying that my account had been deactivated because I'd violated their guidelines and who knows what else...
I mean I'm sure there are good tutors working at WyzAnt, but I was left feeling so degrated and humiliated by this one experience that I'll always swear against them. For my own mental peace, I couldn't possibly imagine allowing them a second chance...

Great way to find the help you need. Provides many secure people who would help! Definetly helped me a lot!
Thanks

Great to work for if you're Caucasian. If not, then you'll probably get you account deactivated with no explanation.

Most of the tutors are not available. When I do find a tutor, after the first session WyzAnt removed her from the site.

It works; I got some business through the site. In fact, finding students through the site was a little easier than without it. However, I still had to work very hard for those students and only about 1 out of 14 correspondences ever lead to a lesson. Most of the students I was in contact with were not even valid because the WyzAnt system is all about students placing their credit card info on file, which they're understandably cautious about. Then the site has the nerve to ask for up to 40% of my income!

WyzAnt has a strange business model. They take a significant cut of your hourly rates, but set you up to meet in person. Considering this, I suspect tutors and students cutting the site out of the deal is a huge problem, at least in part justifying their apparent neurosis. They could make it a little better by at least offering tutors a more reasonable cut of the income they generate. To make matters worse, the vast majority of students I connected with through the site did not have billing info on file and were thus off limits. I ended up spending substantial time explaining the billing system to weary customers and easing their concerns only to find that most of those cautious customers found a tutor elsewhere.

With all these students with no billing info badgering me to meet them anyway, I had my work cut out for me just fending them off. One day a very professional and respectful young man started with his concerns about the billing system and asking me to meet him at his school and cut the site out. I tried and tried to ease his concerns but he insisted I meet him and gave me a location. I said I'd come talk with him in person about the billing system and help ease his concerns. Within hours of this, my profile was disabled. After all those countless hours laboring for the company trying to get students to do as WyzAnt wanted, put billing info on file, this one little incident got me zapped out of the system. Talk about institutional neurosis.

1) First of all, if you see five star reviews on this site for Wyzant, they are most likely fake. You'll notice they are aggregated together on certain days, as if all of a sudden a bunch of people decided to give this company 5 stars. Hmmm... Also, if you check those 5 star reviews, you'll see that the rater has only rated Wyzant. Take a look at 5/1/2017 for example. By coincidence five or six people provided 5 star reviews and then the next review jumps a few weeks. And those 5 star reviews? They are often just a few words long. If you really have a good experience with a company, don't you usually write more? The company has brought in a few marketing consultants whose sole goal is to drum up business, not to provide quality tutors.

2) This company not only is a ripoff, the information on the website and info you will get if you talk to their customer support team is B. S. They are now charging an extra 5% fee for each hour you get tutored. Why the new fee? They simply are trying to make more money (or making up for the fact they are losing money) since you're not getting anything extra for the five percent.

Ironically, Wyzant boasts about having so many available tutors, but if you think logically, that simply means they will accept just about anyone. If they had a more limited pool of tutors, that could be evidence they have students and parents interests in mind. It's pretty sad to consider that they don't even realize the poor image they are presenting to the public.

I think two stars is appropriate because you MIGHT get a good tutor. You might get a great tutor. But you should be cautious and ask a tutor questions about background and experience. However, that great tutor is great because she/he is talented and concerned. It has nothing to do with their listings on Wyzant.

We couldn't have been happier with the tutor we found through Wyzant. Reading reviews from past students was very helpful
In choosing the right fit.

I have been tutoring for Wyzant a little over a year. At he present time I am tutoring as much as is reasonably possible. I have only secured 2 students on my own (4 hours per week), but through Wyzant I average about 10 hours per week.

I have seen complaints about the amount of money that Wyzant retains from the sessions. It does decrease as your accumulated hours increase. At the present time I am at the top percentage of pay. Using Wyzant has been a really good experience. I don't need to market myself, or worry about collecting my fees. All of this is done for me. Anyone that complains about the fee that Wyzant retains forgets that it is a business and a business does need someway to make money.

As for students not responding to email, parents can go out and review your profile and decide if your rate is within their budget and if you have the right skills they require. If not, they don't bother to respond. The reverse is also true. I have been contacted directly through Wyzant after parents have gone out and reviewed my profile.

The tutor needs to market themselves on Wyzant to maximize their students. I reviewed other tutors in my area to see what rate was being charged for comparable skilled teachers. I also ask my parents to leave a write up if they feel that I am doing a good job. This written commentary appears in my profile along with my rating. If your ratings are not good from parents, then you need to take the initiative to inquire from the parent what they feel you need to do that you are not. It is the tutor's responsibility to respond to job postings in a timely fashion (since they can be filled quite quickly), prepare for the sessions, and openly communicate with the parent beyond the session write-up. Just waiting for Wyzant to "drop" a job in your lap is unrealistic.

I've been working with Wyzant for almost two years. I have been distressed to see that some people think it is a scam. It is NOT. It is for people who want to be self employed. It doesn't work by magic. You have to do your part. But it gives you a venue to find people in your area looking for tutoring help and for them to find you.
Wyzant provides the links between tutors and clients, and then it's up to you to correspond and see how you'll fit together. It's true some people don't put their payment schedules in, and so the computer will not let you exchange phone numbers.
Unless you are trying to go around the system, which is unethical, this protects
Both your privacy and the clients. Wyzant takes a portion of your income, but they also set up payment schedules for the client and for you and you are able to teach without having to worry about payment all the time or be embarrassed by it. And they send you a 1099 if you earn over $600 in a year. You get tested, posted, given a blog site and review site so clients know your performance. Some clients are short term,
Some long, but there is constant posting of people seeking help and people desiring work. I kind of found Wyzant by accident, but couldn't be happier with them.
But truly you have to work at contacting clients. Thing is, it's all set up for you.
If you're good, you may get word of mouth business. But it's not good if you're just going into it for the summer, for instance. It takes time to build a clientele. I want to be self employed and love tutoring and so for me it's a great fit and their services are worth the percentage. You have to understand how it works, though. They connect to you and prospective clients and do the billing and income tax and give you this great venue to put yourself out there on the market. I hope this helps some of you who
Are frustrated with it.

When I got paid Wyzant took 25% of the fee I set. They added 9% to the parent fee. Highway robbery. DO not work for this company.

I enjoyed working with my tutor Hans, I definitely recommend him he makes the test easy to understand he was very helpful

Finding WyzAnt has been one of the best things I found on the internet. It has provided me with exactly what I've been looking to obtain.