Teaching · For Tutors

Get the video call right before the first lesson.

Measure your connection, then work through camera and sound, platform settings and the student’s side of the call. The guide puts the fixes in order and prints a card for the day the call drops.

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$12one-time · every device you sign in on
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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Tutoring business kit, $69 for 83 items.

The setup guide

One setup per place you teach from, or per student if their needs differ. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · For Tutors$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A finished setup checklist with your measured speeds, the fixes to make in order, recording rules and a dropped-call plan to share with families.
Who it is for
Independent tutors, tutoring agency staff and anyone teaching one-to-one by video.
Format
Browser checklist. One saved setup per place or student; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Tutoring business kit ($69) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The For Tutors space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
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Drawn for this page. Most lost tutoring minutes online come from the connection, the student’s side of the call and a whiteboard that was never tried.

How to use it

  1. Run a speed test at the hour you usually teach, on the device you teach from.
  2. Hold a five-minute test call with each new student.
  3. Try the whiteboard and file sharing as the student would.
  4. Record only with written consent, and set a deletion date.
  5. Send the dropped-call plan to the family.

Start a setup

What the guide checks

Upload matters most

Most home connections download far faster than they upload, and your upload carries your video and screen. If the upload is weak, a cable to the router helps more than a faster plan.

The speed rule of thumb

Meeting apps publish their own figures; for one-to-one HD video they are commonly around 1.2 to 1.8 Mbps each way. The guide uses 1.5 Mbps for HD and 3 Mbps for comfortable headroom. Check your platform’s own page.

Recording children

Ask the family in writing before recording, tell the student when it is on, keep recordings in one secured place and delete them on a schedule.

Sources

  1. Zoom Support. Zoom system requirements: bandwidth for one-to-one and group video, and screen sharing.
  2. Federal Communications Commission. Broadband speed guide and household broadband guide.
  3. Zoom Support. Recording notifications and consent prompts shown to participants.
  4. Web Accessibility Initiative (W3C). Making audio and video media accessible: captions.

The example setup, speeds and plan are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.