July 5, 2012

How To Manage Your Students Effectively?


Home Tutor Helper

We always hear stories about tutors being late for lessons, tutors/parents forgotten about the number of lessons conducted for the month, tutors having a difficult time chasing payment from parents etc.

Many tutors use their mobile phones’ in-built calendar to keep track of the lessons. Those who are more serious about tuition tend to use a diary/notebook to keep track.

For part-time tutors, undergraduate tutors or full-time tutors with more than 5 students, pen & paper may not be the best solution.

We came across an online application built for tutors to manage their students. There is even an iphone app for tutors to access the data anywhere.

Even though the application is built for music teachers, we have found out that it works perfectly fine for home tutors. The extra features for music teachers can be ignored. It is called Music Teacher Helper.

The best deal is that there is a forever free plan for you to use as long as you have no more than 5 students.

The Free Plan includes features (which home tutors can use):

  • Live Calendar
  • Automatic Lesson Reminders
  • Automatic Invoicing
  • Make-up Lessons 
  • Track Lesson Progress
  • Lending Library
  • Attendance Report
  • Mass E-mail Students
  • Student Contact Information
  • Automatic Birthday Greeting
  • Student and Parent Access
  • Track Income and Expenses
  • Invoice History
  • Your own professional studio website
  • & more
 We feel that out of all the features above, home tutors can really benefit from using the Live Calendar to schedule all lessons and make-up lessons. Tutors can use the mobile app to view the calendar. The tracking of lessons and payment will also provide quite a bit of convenience.

For the free plan, you can sign up at Music Teacher Helper.

Do let us know if it works for you.

June 29, 2012

Give Yourself A Break: Krabi – 4D3N Ao Nang Princeville (38% OFF)


S$279 instead of  S$450. Includes 2-Way Air Ticket on Tiger Airways + 3 Nights Stay with Breakfast + Free Wi-Fi Room + Complimentary Island Hopping Tour With Picnic Lunch (5 Price options Available, Min 2 Pax)

Here is the deal.

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June 27, 2012

Portable battery For Tutors: Andino PowerPlus™ Xtreme Lite 4800mAh


If you are one of the tutors who frequently travel around for lessons and cannot afford to have zero battery in your smartphone, you may want to take a look at the offer. $29.90 instead of $69 for a portable battery, not bad.

Here is the deal.

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June 27, 2012

School Fees For Non-Singaporeans Will Increase In 2013.


This increase will be $50-$80 per month for PRs and $115-$250 for international students.

Read more at Channel News Asia : http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1209926/1/.html

“Money money money… must be funny… in the rich man’s world…”

June 16, 2012

Mini Sofa for Kids only. So Cute!


Deal.com.sg is selling deals for cute little sofa in brown,  red, beige for kids up to 10 years old. If you fancy cute little furniture in your house, do check it out.

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June 15, 2012

Positive Parenting Congress 2012


For parents who are serious about parenting, do check out the Positive Parenting Congress 2012. You will learn to understand your children better and manage them well. It is on 24 June 2012 at Raffles City.  Do read up on the details below.

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June 14, 2012

9% Preschooler Can Tie Their Shoes Yet 20% Can Play An App On A Smartphone.


Mobile Applications

Mobile Applications

Seems like the mobile app industry is taking over the world by storm. Its good news for the mobile app developers as they have a big market to target.

Singapore startups have been trying to develop apps for this market. Parents who are interested in utilising technologies as a tool to equip their children with knowledge can check out these Singapore startups and their products. It will definitely be great to allow your children to play and learn at the same time.

Check out how your children can benefit from using an iPad app too.
June 12, 2012

Work with Numbers up to 10 Millions by age 9.


English state schools in UK are taking actions to toughen up their standards in order to compete with international advance education systems such as Singapore.

Toughen Up

A draft mathematics curriculum suggests that students at the age of nine will have to know all their time tables up to 12×12 and be able to work with numbers up to 10 million by the end of the primary education. Currently, students only need to know up to 10×10 and work with numbers below 1,000 by age 11. This is quite a challenge for future students. If students nowadays think that the current education system is tough to excel in, think again.

June 12, 2012

Reviews & Ratings


We always believe that customers’ testimonials are the best marketing tool for any tutor.

Testimonials are now available on tutor’s full profile page. Each testimonial comes with a tutor rating which will influence the New Ranking System. These testimonials can be either public or private.

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June 7, 2012

More Credentials. More Tuition Assignments.


Upload your certificates now to your profile and get the new Certificate-Verified badge. Parents/students will then be able to verify your academic results.

Get the badge now!