You may remember that last year we released the beta.italki.com and promised to release optimized features for teachers in the future. On April 2nd 2019 we will be releasing a new teacher site, teach.italki.com. This site will serve as the foundation for future improvements in products and services for teachers.
Please see below for the full list of changes. For convenient lesson management and to respond to messages you may download italki’s APP from here.
All Teachers
- Your Teacher Wallet will only be accessible via teach.italki.com.
- Lesson Requests can be found under "Action Required" on your dashboard and in messages
- To alternate between student and teacher mode
- Click your profile photo (top right-hand side) and from the drop-down menu select “Switch to Teacher Mode” or “Switch to Learning Mode”
- To manage your lessons or make any changes in Teacher Settings, please use teach.italki.com.
- To leave feedback for a student after a lesson is completed (leaving feedback for a student is optional)
- Go to “Completed lessons”, click on the lesson card and click “Leave Feedback”
- Instant Tutoring will be removed and will be replaced with a new and improved feature in the future.
- Current course information (including description and prices) will be migrated to teach.italki.com. Please assign categories and tags to your lessons which will enable them to be visible in the search results.
- Your contact list (friends, teachers) will be moved to the teach.italki.com.
- Your lessons will be divided into 2 lists based on lessons taught and taken. This will make searching for past Lesson Details easier.
- The previous category named Informal Tutoring will be renamed Conversation Practice. Any changes made to Conversation Practice will not appear on italki.com other than the price.
- In order to reduce confusion and to protect both teachers and students, we are updating italki’s Teacher Policy and Teacher Code Of Conduct and removing individual cancellation policies.
Professional Teachers
- Professional Teachers will be able to create 6 lessons per language.
Community Tutors
- Community Tutors will be able to create 3 lessons under the new lesson categories General and Conversation Practice.
Comments
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Hi. I just got another error on the app not letting me ask for Express Withdrawal. Is anyone getting this same message?
Not I, I didn't have any trouble the other day but I find the APP does not work as well as my laptop.
I have been blocked from accepting lesson requests because I supposedly missed a lesson. I have not missed any lessons. This site is stealing my livelihood! Independent teachers (WHO ARE NOT CONTRACTORS) should not ever be blocked from accepting lessons. This is unacceptable!
@rose you'll have to go through the rigmarole of explaining and reinstating. Check your emails, one of them should have a link to enable resetting of the unavailability
@ros @cjlee - email mentioning reduction in teaching sessions and offering help. The algorithm they use notes the raw count only. Last year I did over 1300 hours which was way over my average and way over what I want to do as a retiree. So I reduced my available hours by about 20% but of course the simplistic algorithm did not notice. Now I am back to perhaps 1000 a year for 2019, still too much but more comfortable.
My two big beefs are the 12 hour overnight bookings, and the inability to locate student notebook entries (since I set students writing homework)
@Rose This has happened to me too lately. I am really getting frustrated with Italki. I have been here since 2011 and the changes that have been made in the last couple of years have been so unfair to teachers. I am really getting upset with Italki.
Why remove Instant tutoring?????
At least give us an indication to when this will be back???
Hi, could you please tell me how I synchronize my italki appointments with my google calendar, in order to avoid over booking?
I found that I can import my icalendar feed to google, but it looks like it's only working in one direction.
How is the italki calendar checking if the slot is still open, in real time?
All my other appointment apps do synchronize automatically (like Calendly, Facebook, etc.) which avoids conflicts between appointments.
Is there any link that I missed?
Thanks in advance.
I am very anxious for Italki to reinstate the instant tutoring feature or something like it. That was always a way for me to be more active on the platform and earn some money as well. It also helped me in building up a student base.
Realmente no comprendo porque dejaron de habilitar la función de "clase Instantánea" si de igual modo beneficiaba a todos tanto en conocimiento como en ingresos, y me refiero a la plataforma, Italki también se beneficiaba. Se supone que cuando se realizan cambios son para mejorar y no como esto, que realmente bajaron en calidad. Solo espero que si atiendan a nuestros mensajes.
Italki, please, these other changes to the site are mostly nice and helpful but we want instant tutoring back.
I am a bit confused about creating 3 lessons under "General" and "Conversation Practice." As a Community Tutor, many of the sessions I have with students are not just conversation. The lessons involve reading comprehension, grammar, pronunciation and punctuation. There are many of my students who only schedule 45 minute lessons, so will there be only 60 minute and 30 minute lessons?
My comments about instant tutoring are the same as many that I have read. When the instant tutoring was deleted, my income became much less and I met many prospective students on instant tutoring, so that has been a downside to the website.
The key to running a successful business is listening to your clients and their needs. Judging from the responses to these changes, that's not happening. I would suggest a simple change: have a poll before you even consider making any changes. How many people will actually benefit from them? I personally, as a teacher, have found all of these to-be-deleted features very useful and helpful. I don't suppose there is anything stopping teachers from moving to a more user-friendly site. Seems immediate profits are not the key here.
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