Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø has partnered with Knack to help strengthen the peer learning community on campus! With Knack, any enrolled undergraduate student at Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø can get help from a fellow peer that already aced your class. You can choose to meet up online on the Knack platform or on campus in person!
If you’ve aced a course, sign up as a Knack Tutor to help your peers! Your faculty can recommend you as a tutor, too! Do a training online and start taking requests. Knack pays you $15/hr. You work the hours you want, when you want, and help out another Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø student! There are also perks and swag you can win!
Fall 2022 v. Fall 2023 Knack Stats
Students are finding Knack, and each other!
Fall statistics:
- FALL 22: 408 students visited for 1, 262 tutoring sessions versus FALL 23: 583 students completed 2,243 tutoring sessions. A 77.73% increase!
- In FALL 22 Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø had 115 Peer Tutors approved to tutor, and 69 of them offered sessions to peers. In FALL 23, 220 tutors were active on Knack.
- The total number of tutoring sessions completed in the 2023-24 academic year was 4,499, a 42.55% increase compared to 2022-23. Students attended an average of 5.39 tutoring sessions.
- We need more tutors on the platform, especially for high-demand courses for which tutors don't respond to requests at a high enough rate. Those courses include: BMS 507, MATH 422, CHEM 404, ECON 401, and ADMN 502
Faculty Resources
Faculty, please
Link to your Canvas course for students to learn about Knack.
Pilot Year 2021-2022
In 2021-2022, Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø tried out Knack with a limited number of courses.
- In Fall 2021, 100 students visited for 276 tutoring sessions.
- In spring 2022, 68 students visited for 340 tutoring sessions.
- Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø had 42 Peer Tutors complete training and 34 offered sessions to peers.
- The average number of tutoring sessions per student was 4.22 sessions.
- Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Knack Peer Tutors covered 286 courses.
100% of students tutored responded on a satisfaction survey that their tutoring sessions were Excellent, Very Good, or Good! 100% said they would return for tutoring, and 75% said they would recommend to a friend.
100% of students attending 4 or more tutoring sessions responded that they Strongly Agree or Agree that after their tutoring sessions they feel more confident in their understanding of the material an d are better able to do the work on their own.
In 2022-2023 all courses will be available and all students can sign up for free tutoring on Knack BUT we need Tutors to offer sessions!!
