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Smarthinking
24x7 help from experienced online subject tutors and skilled writing tutors — for better grades, essays, resumes, and careers
Promote student success with 24x7 tutoring services
Smarthinking gives students anytime, anywhere access to academic help from experts, even when you can’t. We extend your resources with just-in-time online tutoring, helping students arrive prepared, succeed in class, and work towards career goals. Recent studies show that students who use Smarthinking get higher grades and are more likely to complete courses.
With Smarthinking, you can provide 24x7 live, personalized tutoring in core subjects, and expert guidance for improving students’ writing — from essays to resumes.
Experienced tutors + proven pedagogy = student success
Over 90% of Smarthinking tutors hold a Master’s degree or PhD, so your students work with an expert in every session. Our tutors average 12 years of experience working directly with students: they’re expert teachers as well as subject experts.
We never do students’ work for them. Rather, we use a proven, problem-solving approach that helps them learn, gain confidence, and handle future assignments on their own.
How Smarthinking helps students
A complete online tutoring solution for promoting achievement
Students face ever-greater personal demands and academic challenges. When they need help, they need it now — and if they can’t get it, they fall behind, fail to complete, or drop out. Few institutions can provide high-quality academic help to everyone at all times. Smarthinking tutoring flexibly and cost-effectively extends your resources, improving achievement, completion and graduation rates, and workplace success.
High-quality, single-source tutoring
Our instructors are experts in their disciplines and in teaching online — and our comprehensive capabilities make tutoring easy to manage and scale
Comprehensive career writing help
Our comprehensive career writing services can extend your career center’s capabilities and give students a powerful advantage in their job searches
Actionable data and full support
Get comprehensive help to make Smarthinking work for your students, plus actionable analytics to improve instruction
Research shows that Smarthinking promotes academic achievement. That’s because 90% of our tutors have a relevant Master’s or PhD, 100% are trained extensively on proven online pedagogy, and all are closely monitored for effectiveness. We offer immediate drop-in tutoring for many subjects, provide writing help for all subjects, and offer tutoring by appointment in some advanced subjects. As a single source, we make online tutoring easier to manage, and can quickly help you scale instruction.
Smarthinking complements your career services, supporting students with 24x7 resume and cover letter help, personal branding consultation, business writing reviews, and even live interview coaching. Your students will represent you well, and get hired.
We help you focus Smarthinking tutoring services to meet your institution’s specific needs, integrate them into your campus and LMS, promote participation, track progress, and maximize the value of your investment. We also provide unsurpassed actionable data to help you enhance instruction, respond quickly to emerging issues, and improve learning outcomes.
Evidence of Smarthinking’s impact on student success
The vast majority of students who use Smarthinking tutoring services would recommend them to a friend — and if our tutors weren’t helpful, or students couldn’t reach one when they needed help, they wouldn’t say that. We’ve also repeatedly shown significant improvements in key student success metrics such as course completion.
One source for tutoring services in 150 subject areas
Smarthinking offers tutoring services in more than 150 subject areas, at all levels from developmental through graduate and professional school. In most subjects, Smarthinking online tutors are available 24x7. In certain advanced subjects, Smarthinking online tutors are available by appointment within as little as 24 hours. Smarthinking tutoring services are available through Internet-connected computers, tablets, and smartphones.
Smarthinking can serve as your single or primary external source for tutoring services — simplifying planning, budgeting, and day-to-day management.
Mathematics & statistics
Algebra, basic math, bilingual math (English/Spanish), calculus, geometry, liberal arts math, statistics, trigonometry
Science
Biology, chemistry, introductory human anatomy and physiology (A&P), organic chemistry, physics
Computers & technology
Introductory computer science; Microsoft Access, Excel, PowerPoint & Word; Adobe Illustrator, InDesign & Photoshop; Windows 7/10 & Linux; C, C++, C#, Java, Python & SQL; introductory web development & HTML
Nursing
Geriatrics, medical-surgical nursing, mental health and psychiatric nursing, nursing administration, nursing anatomy and physiology, nursing care plans, nursing pathophysiology, nursing pharmacology, OB/GYN, oncology, pediatrics, nursing essays
Health sciences
Health sciences anatomy and physiology, health sciences pharmacology, medical assisting, medical terminology, health sciences essays
Reading
Reading comprehension, sentence skills, word-level skills, vocabulary development, ESL/ESOL
Writing
Help with essays and papers in any subject, plus resumes, business writing, and more
Improve your students’ writing skills
Smarthinking’s comprehensive 24x7 writing services help students at all levels improve their writing. We extend your writing center’s capabilities, providing the personalized assistance each student needs to deliver stronger written work — across the curriculum, in any discipline.
Superior writing pedagogy
We provide substantive, individualized critiques that guide students to a broader understanding of writing issues and revision strategies.
Helping at all levels
We help students wherever they are on their journeys as writers, offering everything from syntax and vocabulary assistance to guidance on presenting stronger academic arguments.
Live and offline support
We’re there when students need us — whether they need live, one-on-one help, detailed offline document critiques, or both.
In both writing reviews and interactive one-on-one sessions, we help students become better writers, readers, and editors of their own work. We extensively train our tutors to tailor pedagogy to each student's writing level and help them write for any rhetorical situation, audience, or assignment.
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At the sentence level, we provide individualized advice and strategies for word choice, syntax, transitions, and other aspects of clear and credible academic writing.
At a higher level, we help students improve the quality of arguments and research. We help them learn how to cite strong, clear claims, offer more robust evidence, and use reliable, current sources. We also guide them in analyzing and organizing research, documenting appropriately, developing strong and coherent academic arguments, and crafting original conclusions.
Smarthinking tutoring services include live one-on-one sessions that engage students in learning and writing. We work through problematic sentences, guide students toward recognizing and correcting problems, and help them avoid similar errors in the future.
Our asynchronous writing reviews prioritize areas for improvement, provide distilled revision plans, and help students recognize, fix, and avoid patterns of error.
Explore your student’s experience
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Resume review and career writing services
Smarthinking provides 24x7 resume review and other career writing services to help students communicate with employers more successfully. We complement your current career services, helping students sharpen their message and stand out. We build their reputations — and yours, too.
Resumes, letters & brands
We’ll help your students create resumes that stand above the competition — and improve all the other materials they show an employer.
Coaching & interview prep
We’ll complement and extend your career center’s services by helping you coach students to create great job materials and excel in interviews.
Improve business writing
Our business writing specialists can help students improve business documents, to keep impressing employers after they’re hired as interns or employees.
Our detailed personalized feedback helps students craft resumes and cover letters that are focused, well-organized, and powerful. We can help students refine LinkedIn® profiles, elevator pitches, personal statements, and application essays.
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Resume reviews: Sample 1, Sample 2, Sample 3
We provide real-time help and on-the-spot advice to help students market themselves more effectively. Our experienced coaches prepare students for interview day. We help them practice answers in real time to convince employers they’re right for the job.
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Your students represent you in the workplace. Our business writing specialists can help make sure their written communications speak well for them — and for you. We offer detailed feedback for crafting business documents that are clear, succinct, and effective — whether they’re writing a report, a proposal, a memo, social media content, or anything else.
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Resources to help you succeed with Smarthinking
Your dedicated Smarthinking Implementation Manager will work with you to successfully implement Smarthinking and leverage our outstanding reporting to improve instruction and academic support.
We can provide training and promotional materials, help integrate single sign-on student access, and consult on best practices for using online tutoring services.
Explore these materials now, and ask your Account Implementation Manager for even more resources.
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How Smarthinking online tutoring works: The student experience
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The institutional perspective, including a look at your powerful management reports
Meet some of our experienced tutors
Over 90% of Smarthinking tutors hold a Master’s degree or PhD, so your students work with an expert in every session. Our tutors average 12 years of experience working directly with students: they’re expert teachers as well as subject experts. Get to know a few of our tutors below to see their typical qualifications.
Kathy Adams McIntosh
Senior Lead Tutor, Advanced Accounting
Jim Triplett
Lead Tutor, Introduction to Finance
Jamie Dillard
Lead Tutor, Computers & Technology
Lisa Morris DeReus, M.Ap.St.
Senior Manager, Mathematics & Statistics
Claudia Werner-Rutledge, Ph.D., RN, CNE
Team Lead, Nursing & Allied Health
Kristin Wood
Senior Lead Writing Tutor
Joshua Greer
Senior Lead Tutor
Kathy Adams McIntosh
Senior Lead Tutor, Advanced Accounting
Kathy Adams McIntosh earned her Master of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin and her Bachelor of Arts in Accounting and Business Administration from Lakeland College. She is a Certified Management Accountant and serves on the board of her local chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants. Her experience includes working in higher education, business consulting, accounting, employee training and leadership.
Jim Triplett
Lead Tutor, Introduction to Finance
Jim Triplett is the lead tutor for Introduction to Finance at Smarthinking, a professor of finance, a self-employed risk management consultant, and an author. He holds a Master of Business Administration (Finance), a Master of Science in Organizational Leadership, a Master of Arts in Instructional Design Technology, is ABD toward a PhD in Organization and Management (Leadership) and is currently pursuing an EdD in Educational Technology. His most recent book is Surviving Introduction to Finance.
Jamie Dillard
Lead Tutor, Computers & Technology
Jamie Dillard holds a bachelor’s degree in Applied Science, a Master’s in Business Administration, a Master of Science in Information Systems, and the Microsoft Office Master certification. Jamie is a Navy veteran and has worked in the private sector of Information Technology for 4 years specializing in Business Intelligence and Corporate Training. As a Smarthinking tutor since 2014, Jamie enjoys interacting with students and helping them with challenging tasks as they seek to better themselves through education.
Lisa Morris DeReus, M.Ap.St.
Senior Manager, Mathematics & Statistics
Lisa holds a Master of Applied Statistics degree, as well as a B.A. in Chemistry/Biochemistry. She brought with her nearly 10 years of teaching, research, and tutoring experience at Louisiana State University, and a love of helping others to learn. Her work at LSU included pioneering web-based and mixed delivery courses in Sampling Design and Analysis, Statistical Methods, and Regression Analysis, while her research involved developing new mathematical models to estimate alligator survival parameters. A lifelong learner herself, Lisa understands the challenges that students in different life stages can face, and enjoys helping students to uncover their strengths.
Claudia Werner-Rutledge, Ph.D., RN, CNE
Team Lead, Nursing & Allied Health
Claudia Werner-Rutledge, PhD, RN, CNE is a nurse educator with enthusiasm for online education, critical thinking, as well as evidence based practice in education and nursing. Claudia earned a PhD in Education with a specialization in Nursing Education. Claudia is also a Certified Nurse Educator by the National League for Nursing. Claudia teaches in the MSN program, new faculty mentor and content expert for PhD candidates. Claudia joined Smarthinking in 2011.
Kristin Wood
Senior Lead Writing Tutor
Kristin began her journey as a writing tutor in 2006, and two years later, she was promoted to lead tutor. In 2013, she became a Senior Lead, a position which currently involves overseeing 27 writing tutors, assisting with professional development projects, helping maintain the company’s quality standards, and participating in new tutor training. Kristin, who holds an M.A. in English from Georgia State University, also has eleven years of teaching experience, which both informs and enriches her work at Smarthinking.
Joshua Greer
Senior Lead Tutor
Joshua joined Smarthinking in 2011 after ten years teaching in public and charter schools. In addition to working alongside students and overseeing the training and development of new tutors at Smarthinking, Joshua has done freelance work in social media, content creation, and editing, including being named editor-in-chief and fatherhood expert at ChildGood magazine. He considers family a top priority, and enjoys playing and hiking with his three children.