Online Tutoring service now available for VGCC students

Students at Vance-Granville Community College now have a new resource to help them succeed academically. The college recently began partnering with “SMARTHINKING,” an award-winning provider of online tutoring. Through this service, VGCC students can connect with certified tutors on any Internet-connected computer. The online service will complement the traditional in-person tutoring provided by VGCC’s Academic Skills Center on all four of the college’s campuses .

 

“This will be a great benefit to all of our students, but particularly for the many students who have jobs and families that make it more difficult to stay on campus for tutoring beyond the time they are here for class,” VGCC Academic Skills Center coordinator Evelyn Hall said. “SMARTHINKING is also ideal for our students who are taking online courses, but online students may continue to take advantage of tutoring services in person at any campus.”

 

Students in any VGCC program are eligible to use SMARTHINKING. The service is for VGCC course-work only. Online services focus primarily on math, science and writing, but may also help students in other Arts and Sciences courses, such as Spanish, in addition to Nursing and Accounting courses. Available times vary by subject, but math tutoring is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Tutoring may be live and interactive, or may involve submitting a question or draft essay to a tutor and waiting to receive a response.

 

SMARTHINKING currently works with over 1,000 schools, colleges, universities and other institutions in the United States and abroad to increase student achievement and enhance learning.

 

To participate in SMARTHINKING, VGCC students must request a user name and password from the Academic Skills Center . For more information, call the Center at (252) 738-3209 or visit vgcc.springerstudios.net/Academics/smarthinking.cfm .

 

Above: VGCC Academic Skills Center assistant coordinator Jason Snelling (center) demonstrates the new SMARTHINKING online tutoring service to Vance County Early College High School student Brandi Riggsbee of Henderson (left). (VGCC photo)