New in TutorStack: Smarter Assigning, More Tests, and Harder Questions
Hi everyone, John here.
I've got a batch of updates I'm excited to share, and every one of them came out of the same question I keep asking myself: what would actually make a tutor's week easier? Here's what's new.
See what you've already assigned—and what students have attempted
This one was definitely needed. You can now track student attempts and see whether you've assigned a given piece of content to a student before. So when you're building out the next week of homework and you land on a question set or a test, you'll know at a glance: have they seen this? did they attempt it? how did it go?
It takes away the accidental repeats, and—when you want to reassign something for review—you can do it deliberately instead of by accident. You're in control of whether a student sees something once, twice, or as many times as it takes to lock it in.
New "List View" in the task builder
Additionally, we've added a list view to the task builder which makes it a little easier to see the assignment titles and make adjustments to dates and such. It's still super easy to just drag and drop an assignment on a date in the future.
If a student can't complete an assignment, they have the ability to "snooze" their tasks on their own interface.
5 new math section tests
We've added 5 brand-new math section tests to the library. These are patterned after the hardest modules on the real SAT. While section tests are designed for targeted work on a single subject, we may be combining these into "very hard" full mock tests, combining them with our tough verbal section tests.
This brings our total to three fully adaptive practice tests, 9 section tests, and 1 very hard non-adaptive Gauntlet practice test.
More "very hard" grammar questions
We've also added a fresh batch of "very hard" level grammar questions. If you tutor students who are already scoring well and need to squeeze out those last few points, these are built exactly for that. We focused on three skills: pronouns, punctuating clauses, and title-names/appositives. There is actually a question in the clauses batch that forces you to choose between a semicolon or period. You should give it a try. These are in addition to our normal Gauntlet question bank, and are free right now.
Just shy of 3,000 unique questions of varying difficulty
With this update, the Gauntlet is now sitting just under 3,000 unique questions. While our focus has been on building the highest quality, hardest content available, we've added 100s, if not 1000s of very balanced, easy, medium, and hard level questions. Gauntlet is no longer only for your best students. It's for all of them – the 1000- to the 1500-level student.
Introducing "My Content" and sharing content between tutors
We've got several tutors on the platform who still enjoy and prefer the free content that College Board provides. We've made it possible for tutors to share their own worksheets/drills with other tutors on the platform. All the great content you love, now assignable and trackable, for free.
All of this is live in your dashboard now. Log in, poke around, and let us know if you need help. I'm currently managing about 30 private SAT students with ease. I'd love to show you how to do the same!
As always, if there's something that would make your workflow smoother, tell me—these updates come straight from tutor feedback.
— John McDowell
Mr. John's Test Prep
Tutorstack
The Gauntlet