Everything Tutorboard does
A shared whiteboard and a video call, built for one-to-one lessons rather than for meetings. Your student opens a link and is in the lesson. Nothing to install, on either side.
Teaching the lesson
A board you both write on
Pen, highlighter, shapes, text and images, with both cursors live on the page. What your student writes appears as they write it, not when they stop.
Apple Pencil and a graphics tablet
Pressure is read from the pen itself, and a hand resting on an iPad is treated as a palm rather than as a second finger, so writing does not break when someone writes naturally.
Face to face
Video and audio in the same window as the board, with echo cancellation and noise suppression on the outgoing microphone. When a school or office network blocks a direct connection, the call is relayed instead of failing.
Real calculators
Not a pretend one: a basic calculator, an A-level ClassWiz with every app it has, and an fx-CG50 graphing calculator. Both of you see the same screen and the same keys, which is the point when you are teaching the keystrokes as well as the maths.
Geometry instruments
A protractor and a pair of compasses you can drag onto the page. They are shared, and they commit real lines and arcs rather than a picture of one.
Setting and keeping the work
Pages and books
A lesson is a set of pages, and pages are grouped into books: a topic, a term, a course. Export a book as one PDF in order, with every lesson in it.
Import a past paper
Drop a PDF onto the board and write over it. Each page of the paper becomes a page you can work on, and what you write is saved with it.
Homework
Attach a worksheet, a past paper or a photo of marked work to the lesson it belongs to. Your student opens it from the link they already have.
Lesson reports, written for you
Transcription runs on your own Mac and the audio never leaves it. When you ask for a report, only the text is sent, and you get an editable draft tied to that whiteboard. Nothing is written unless you ask.
Recordings
Record the lesson and keep it with the board it belongs to. Parents can be allowed to play them back, or not.
Students and parents
No account needed
A student opens the link and is in the lesson, on a laptop, an iPad or a phone. An account is optional and free, and only exists so their boards and homework are kept between lessons.
Parents see what happened
A read-only link lists the lessons and when they were. Opening the work itself is a subscription the parent buys, not the tutor.
One account per link
A share link can be claimed once. After that it belongs to that account and cannot be claimed by anybody else, however far the link travels.
When the network is against you
School and office networks routinely allow a page to load and then block the connection the whiteboard needs. Tutorboard notices and moves the lesson onto an ordinary HTTPS path that those networks do allow, and relays the call at the same time. Mark a student as being on a school network and it stops waiting to find out (how to tell that is what is happening): it takes a second and a half rather than twelve, and still prefers the fast route whenever their network allows it, so the same student is quick again at home.
Where it runs
Any modern browser, on any operating system. There are apps for Mac, iPad and iPhone for tutors who want one, and nothing on the student's side ever needs installing.