More students able to access tutoring
Consulting and marketing support to help more students find and use free tutoring.
We recruit, manage, and pay your tutors, ensure students know about and access support, and show you what your programs deliver.
Starting a program or replacing what you have, we start from where you are.
“[Nimbus allowed us to] focus more on the students and the student needs.”
Trusted by 44 institutions and 10 student unions across Canada, the US, and France 95% of clients stay with us
Tutoring teams at these institutions run on Nimbus
What students reported
3,467 responses to the Nimbus Impact Survey. Self-reported outcomes after tutoring.
97%better grades
96%more academic confidence
94%less stress and better wellbeing
Over 2×increase in tutoring usage and engagement
More students finding the support they need
We help develop programs that provide free tutoring to students, with the systems to support demand and the communications to help students access it.
Play video: Mike Andrews, Bishop’s University
“Through the growing partnership with Nimbus, I’ve been able to offer more study hall hours, as well as extend my office hours to better help support and accommodate our student athletes’ busy year-round schedules.”
Demand keeps growing, staff time does not
Where tutoring programs get stuck, and what changes with Nimbus.
Today: Students don’t know where to go for help.
With Nimbus: One app shows every program and tutor on campus.
Today: Every term starts with hiring again.
With Nimbus: We recruit and interview tutors to your standards. Nimbus tutors fill course gaps.
Today: Some sessions sit empty while others turn students away.
With Nimbus: Demand by course is on the dashboard, so you staff where students show up.
Today: Leadership asks what the budget is buying.
With Nimbus: Hours, visits, and satisfaction, ready to export for leadership.
Today: The average learning centre runs on about five full-time staff, before a single tutor is paid. NCLCA benchmarking survey of 211 institutions (Toms, 2016).
52%With Nimbus: less administrative labour timeOn average, for programs on Nimbus
One partner Your complete tutoring program
Your program, our expertise. Use the parts you need.
Increased campus employment opportunities
More paid opportunities for students on your campus. We recruit, manage, and pay your tutors.
Improved efficiency for your tutoring department
Attendance, engagement, utilization, and outcomes. Leadership sees where every dollar goes.
Your model. Your way.
Adapt staffing, structure, budget, and technology to fit your program.
“Nimbus reaching out to them helped promote the service because there’s only two of us overseeing 30 to 40 tutors for both in group and private tutoring, so we don’t have that much time to devote to marketing.”
How it works for students and staff
Students see where to go. Staff see what is happening.
For students
- Find a tutor by course, on the web, the app, or the LMS.
- Book one-on-one or group, online or on campus.
- Rate the session in a few taps.
For your staff
- Set up courses, tutors, and availability.
- Approve hours and timesheets before payroll.
- Export usage and feedback for leadership.
Thinking about switching?
Most of the work is ours. Here is why teams move and what your IT team will ask.
Spend where students show up
Fewer empty sessions. Session types matched to demand.
One team, not several vendors
Platform, tutors, and reporting from the same people.
Capacity when demand spikes
Add Nimbus tutors next to your peer tutors at exam time.
No starting over
Keep what works. We start from your current program.
Ready for IT and procurement review
- Single sign-on, and booking from the LMS course page (LTI)
- SIS sync by secure file transfer, daily, weekly, or monthly
- SOC 2 controls in place
- Built for FERPA and PIPEDA
- WCAG 2.1 AA accessible
- English and French
What switching looks like
Talk
We learn how your program runs today.
Plan
Structure, schedule, budget, and scope, set together.
Launch
Access set up, students told, tutors ready where we hire.
Improve
Each term we review the numbers and adjust.
And every term after, the program gets sharper: more hours where demand is, fewer empty sessions, clearer data.
Plan your next stepPartners in their own words
Play video: Lindsey Voisin, Nipissing University“That’s really what drew us to Nimbus — for me, it was the ability to actually spend time with my tutors, to spend time on their training and their development so they felt that they were getting something out of it.”
“It’s really nice to get the data in real time. I don’t have to wait until the end of the semester to see the data … which I find extremely helpful in terms of just trying to plan things out.”
Play video: Somiya Kalloo, MIT“[Nimbus] made us more adaptable and it gave us more flexibility, and I think that it reduced the amount of problems that we had to solve during the academic year.”
“It takes away a lot of the back and forth, emailing questions about pricing, availability … Nimbus just sort of deals with all of that and streamlines it.”
“[Nimbus has] helped me to know what’s going on, know which courses people are searching for.”
“[Our exec team] really liked what they saw with Nimbus, mainly that everything was encapsulated in one platform.”
“Partnering with Nimbus gave us that option to have virtual tutoring sessions and tools like the whiteboard to run them.”
People you can call
Founded in Toronto in 2017 with one mission: help people achieve their full potential. Our Partner Success Team meets with you as often as you need, with program analysis, advice, and marketing support.
How we support partnersTalk with our team
Tell us where your program is today. We listen first, then show you what Nimbus would look like for your program.
A person on our team reads every message and replies by email.
