Remote Tutoring Resources

• Google Meet User Guide - This guide helps users become familiar with the most common features and functions of Google Meet on a computer.
• WhatsApp Tutoring Checklist - This checklist helps tutors navigate the WhatsApp platform when tutoring learners one-on-one. The following instructions address features available to tutors and learners using WhatsApp on an iPhone or Android device.
• Zoom Tutoring Checklist - This checklist helps tutors navigate the Zoom platform as hosts on a computer. If you or your student uses Zoom on a smartphone, please see "Zoom Tutoring Checklist for iPhone or Android."
• Zoom Tutoring Checklist for iPhone or Android - This checklist helps tutors navigate the Zoom platform as hosts on an iPhone or Android device. 
• More Zoom Features for Tutoring - This guide explains new updates to Zoom like Remote Control, allowing users to control each others' screens.

• Join a Meeting
• Schedule a Meeting 
• Basic In-Meeting Controls
• Chat and Reactions
• Share Your Screen, Video or Audio
• Annotate Screens
• Use Breakout Rooms
• Use Waiting Room
• Recording Basics 
• Virtual Backgrounds & Filters
• Meeting Layouts & Views
• Launch Polls
• Use Remote Control

• Meet Tutorial for iPhone
• Schedule and Join Meet
• Meet Controls
• Change View Layout and Background
• View Students While Presenting
• Manage Breakout Rooms
• Share Screens
• Use Jamboard (Whiteboarding)
• Use Question & Answer 

• Getting started 
• Create Google Voice number for WhatsApp
• How to use WhatsApp
• How to use WhatsApp on a computer

Multilingual Zoom start-up guides for learners:

• Zoom start-up guide in English
• Zoom start-up guide in Spanish
• Zoom start-up guide in Somali
• Zoom start-up guide in Hmong
• Zoom start-up guide in Karen

• Zoom Template
• Meet Template
• WhatsApp Template

• Webinar Best Practices - This short guide will help you prepare for a successful webinar/meeting experience.
• Zoom Tutoring Checklist for Hosts - This checklist helps tutors navigate the Zoom platform using Zoom on a computer. 
• Zoom Host Checklist - This checklist provides trainers and hosts with step-by-step instructions for leading a Zoom webinar. 
• Zoom Role Responsibilities - This guide gives an in-depth overview of the meeting privileges available to webinar hosts and co-hosts.
• Zoom Technical Support Language - This guide provides technical support language for common in-meeting problems. Hosts and co-hosts can copy and paste the prepared instructions into the chat box to assist participants quickly. 

Find a variety of remote tutoring materials, including lesson plans, stories, take-home paper packets, etc., from Minnesota programs. Thank you to all of our amazing partners who were willing to share their program's resources!

• Amy Van Steenwyk- Cedar Riverside Adult Education: These are slides of stories from Readworks with pictures added. I've used them to teach a beginning/high beginning ESL class (CASAS 180-210). I use Readworks stories with the whole class and Readworks as a distance learning platform with a few students who have the digital literacy skills and English skills to navigate that site. I've used mostly kindergarten-level stories, as well as a few first-grade stories. I have simplified the text at times or changed it slightly to be less kid-centered. The photos are mainly from photosforclass.com and creativecommons.org and are not licensed for commercial use. Find Amy's resources here.
• English Learning Center (ELC): Find student workbooks for English learners in five different levels: pre-literacy to low advanced. The workbooks can be printed and mailed to learners, and tutors can walk through the lessons over the phone or on a video call. Please note that these resources were created quickly, so tutors may want to add pictures to supplement the lessons. Find ELC's resources here.
• Morgyn's ESL Studio: These short video lessons work with Literacy Minnesota's Pre-Beginning Curriculum (download the curriculum here). They can be watched together by students and tutors or assigned as "homework" for students to watch before a tutoring lesson. They also serve as great models for what a successful tutoring session could look like. Find Morgyn's videos here. 
• Osseo Area Schools Adult Education: Find reading packets for ABE levels A-C and EL levels A-C. Each packet contains 8-9 stories and directions for working through the packets with learners over the phone. Find Osseo's packets here. 
• BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English Readers and Course Packets: Not a Minnesota program, but a great resource for online teachers and tutors from our neighbor to the North! Find open-source textbook readers and accompanying course packets explicitly written for adults. The six levels of readers range from low beginner to the equivalent of grade 9 in the K-12 system. Use the readers and course packets online, or download them as PDFs. Find BC Reads open-source textbooks and course packets here.