How it works · The tutor
What the tutor does, and does not do
A conversation that moves a student forward. Not a chatbot that says “well done”, and not a machine that takes over the work.
This is what it sounds like.
The tutor helps every student at their own level, until it is really understood. It does not give answers away: it looks for where things go wrong and works on exactly that. In every subject, at every level.
Example of a tutor conversation in GoYou, class 3rd year vmbo-t, lesson Percentages at the hair salon.Tutor: A jacket costs €80, with 25% off. What do you pay? Student: 55 Tutor: I think you did 80 minus 25. But how many euros is 25% of 80, really? Student: oh yeah 20 Tutor: Exactly. And then? Student: so 60 Tutor: Yes. See what just happened? Percentages aren’t euros. Shall we do another one?
Four conversations from different subjects and levels, one after the other (vmbo and havo are Dutch secondary school tracks, MBO is vocational education). Example of a tutor conversation, not a screenshot.
And in the background, the lesson is still the lesson.
It feels like a conversation, but not one that can go in any direction. Every student works on the same steps, with the same goal and the same bar. What differs is the route there: one gets a hint, another a counter-question, a third a smaller piece. Along the way, the tutor makes sure that nobody skips the material and that nobody stays stuck. So at the end of the lesson you know your class has been working on the same thing, even though each of them had a different conversation.
What the tutor does not do.
It does not take over the work
The tutor guides, it does not fill in. A student who tries to prise the answer out of it gets a question back.
It does not wander off
What the tutor discusses is tightly framed: it stays within the material and the lesson you set.
It does not make things up
If the tutor does not know an answer, or the question falls outside its limits, it says so honestly to the student and passes the question on to you, the teacher.
It does not make decisions about your class
Signals, questions and answers always go through you. The tutor prepares, you decide what happens.
Power to the teacher
Students’ questions end up with you, not with a machine.
If a student asks something the tutor is not there for, it parks the question and says so honestly. You get to see the question or comment, with a draft answer you can edit, throw away or send. Only when you click send does it go to the student. If more students have the same question, you automatically get a suggestion to cover it in the next lesson.
And you can watch.
As the teacher, you see your class while they work: who is where, who is stuck, which questions are on their minds. Without a pile of marking. What happens to student data and where it is stored, you can read under Safety and privacy.