Tutorboard › For maths tutors
An online whiteboard for maths tutors
Squared paper, past papers you can write straight onto, and the actual exam calculator on screen beside the working. Your student opens a link; nothing to install, on either side.
The short answer
Tutorboard is a shared whiteboard and video call for one-to-one maths lessons. You write, they write, both of you see it as it happens. Import a past paper and work over it. Share a ClassWiz or an fx-CG50 so the keystrokes are taught as well as the method. Every lesson is kept as pages you can export as one PDF at the end of term. £4.99 or £9.99 a month after a 14-day trial; students never pay.
Teaching over Zoom, Meet or Teams
You do not need them. Video and audio are in the same window as the board, with echo cancellation on the outgoing microphone, so there is one thing to open rather than two. If you would rather keep your usual call, you can: use Tutorboard for the board alone and nothing breaks.
A lesson, start to finish
The working
Pen, highlighter, straight lines and text on squared, lined or plain paper. Pressure from an Apple Pencil or a graphics tablet, and a hand resting on an iPad is treated as a palm rather than a second finger, so a stroke does not break when a student writes the way they always write. If you teach with a tablet yourself, the iPad and Apple Pencil setup guide covers the stand, the pen and where to run the call.
The paper
Drop a PDF of a past paper on the board. Each page becomes a page you write over, and the working is saved with the question rather than on a separate sheet nobody can match up afterwards. There is a guide to working over a past paper, including what the exam boards’ terms allow.
The calculator
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. Half of teaching a statistics question is teaching which buttons, in which order, and you cannot do that by describing it.
Geometry
A protractor and a pair of compasses you drag onto the page. They commit real lines and arcs, so a construction is a construction rather than a picture of one.
After the lesson
Pages group into books by topic or term, and a book exports as one PDF in order. On Premium, a lesson report can be drafted from what was actually said, with the transcription running on your own Mac so the audio never leaves it.
If your student is at school
School networks let a page load and then block the connection a whiteboard needs, which is why so many tools simply stop moving in a school library. Tutorboard notices and carries the lesson over ordinary HTTPS instead, relaying the call at the same time. Mark a student as being on a school network and it stops waiting to find out. Why the whiteboard freezes on school wifi goes through how to tell that is what you are hitting, and what to tell the family.
Questions maths tutors ask
Can my student join on a phone?
Yes, and on an iPad or any laptop. A link, a name, and they are in.
Do they need an account?
No. An account is optional and free, and only exists so their boards and homework are kept between lessons.
Can I write with an iPad and teach from my Mac?
Yes. Sign in on both; they are the same lesson.
Is there a limit on how much I keep?
Storage, pages, books, recordings and exports are not metered. Base is capped at 20 students; Premium has no student limit.