We've used TutorTrac for three years now (I think) and love it. They
have many standard reports that the database part of TutorTrac can
easily run.
The question then becomes, as Vicki asked, how to report it
"so that the data is meaningful, relevant,
and helpful to us and to the wider university community."
That depends on your audience--who you're trying to convince, and of what. That's a whole 'nother question, IMHO.
But at least TutorTrac gets the data right, and makes it easy to crunch. It has helped us make our tutors and the profs they serve understand the value of tutoring. All that on top of being a web-based scheduling system, which would make it worthwhile even without the database.
Our latest achievement is that we got our IT department to put the login for TutorTrac on the main WWW page, right there with Blackboard and the offsite email reader thingy, Pipeline. Tutors rate!
susie robertshaw
Hunt, Stefanie wrote:
>We have just begun using TutorTrac so are working out the kinks, but we
>expect it to help tremendously this semester as far as collecting data
>for us. It helps to have an extremely good tech person on your staff,
>but once it's set up, it seems to be easy to use, as long as the tutors
>and tutees remember to log in and out!
>
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Open Forum for Learning Assistance Professionals
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jennifer Lindquist
>Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 3:21 PM
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>Vicki,
>
>Perhaps you should check out www.tutortrac.com. Although we don't
>currently use the program at our institution, I have been fighting for
>it since attending a conference in which their program was introduced. I
>believe this program will be quite beneficial in helping you keep track
>of the data.
>
>Jennifer Lindquist
>Academic Coordinator
>SSS, Thomas University
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Open Forum for Learning Assistance Professionals
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>Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 2:57 PM
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>Dear Colleagues,=20
> In our Academic Resource Center at Ohio Dominican University, we
>are trying to determine the best way to communicate our tutoring data
>(number of students tutored, courses most requested, number of sessions
>in the Math/Writing lab, etc.) so that the data is meaningful, relevant,
>and helpful to us and to the wider university community. Do any of you
>have a template or a standard form that you find beneficial and clear?
> Thanks,
> Vicki Lefevre=20
>
>
>Vicki Gardner Lefevre
>Assistant Director
>Academic Resource Center
>(614) 251-4510
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Tutoring at TJ's web site: http://www.rollins.edu/tpj/tutoring
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"This is a learning center, not the Magic Kingdom. That's down the road..."
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