The situation
StFX once had a central tutoring program, but it had lapsed. Each department set its own policies. Mark Leeming kept a registry of vetted tutors, first on paper, then as a document on a website. It was hard to keep current, and many students did not know it existed.
What Nimbus did
The Students’ Union proposed Nimbus. The university joined, and so did the Schwartz School of Business, which had been keeping its own tutor list. The registry, scheduling, and payments moved to one platform that every group could use.
The result
Leeming now sees which courses students are searching for and keeps the tutor list current without emailing everyone each term. He is candid that the pandemic interrupted the rollout, so he cannot yet say how much tutoring volume has grown.
“It’s helped me to know what’s going on. Knowing which courses people are searching for. It’s a lot better than the blackbox method of trying to have a tutor for everything but not knowing who’s working on what.”
“Being able to keep up with updating the list is so much easier, rather than sending out emails every term.”