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An online whiteboard for physics tutors

Diagrams drawn properly, past papers written over, and a calculator you both can see. Built for one-to-one lessons where the diagram is half the explanation.

The short answer

A shared whiteboard and video call for one-to-one physics. Draw the ray diagram or the free-body diagram while they watch, hand them the pen to try it, import the paper and work on the question itself. Lessons are kept as pages and export as one PDF. £4.99 or £9.99 a month after a 14-day trial; students never pay.

The parts of a physics lesson that are hard online

Diagrams

Straight lines, arrows and shapes with a pen that takes pressure, so a force arrow looks like a force arrow. A protractor and compasses drag onto the page for angles of incidence and circular motion.

Working with units

A real ClassWiz on screen, with the same keys your student has in the exam, so rearranging and substituting is taught with the machine they will actually use.

Graphs

An fx-CG50 graphing calculator, shared, for the shape of a relationship before the algebra of it.

The paper itself

Import the PDF and write over the question. The working stays with the question, which is what makes it useful in April. See working over a past paper.

Keeping the course together

Pages group into books: mechanics, waves, electricity. A book exports as a single PDF in order, so a student revising has the whole topic in one file rather than eleven screenshots.

Questions physics tutors ask

Can I use a graphics tablet?

Yes. Pressure is read from the pen, including Wacom tablets.

Can the student draw too, or only watch?

Both. You can let them draw and take it back whenever you want.

What if their school blocks everything?

The lesson moves to an ordinary HTTPS path that school networks allow, and the call is relayed rather than failing.