First thing first, what is online tutoring, and why we need it? Thanks to the pandemic, almost every person is now aware of online studies, but the origin of online tutoring or studies is not at all the outburst of the Coronavirus. There have been many online platforms before that and for specific types of groups. The internet has made things easier for people, and for the last few years, people have been taking the help of online educational platforms. Why?

• Easy access.
• Cheaper than the conventional education system.
• One gets to learn things that he/she cannot learn in their local institutes.
  

So, having access to some great study material is obviously very beneficial for the students. And the concept of online learning is not limited to a specific type of study or a specific age group. Anyone from any age group and any place in the world can learn anything from programming language to playing a musical instrument.

Since the benefit is not only for the students, the tutors also are getting the opportunity to connect and share their knowledge with a wider audience. So they are also more inclined to make a career in online tutoring. If you are one of those tutors or the business persons who are looking to get their hands on online tutoring software development, you must follow the steps below to make sure you end up building a powerful tutoring website for your audience.

Choose Your Specialization

Since you have come up with an idea of setting up a tutoring website, you must be aware of what should be its niche. But if you are still juggling with your thoughts, you must go through the current trends and research on what actually you can provide to your audience. Your website can be a language teaching website or a website where people can get high school level tutoring, or it can be anything. But it mostly depends on what you and your team are capable of serving.

Research and Focus on the Target Audience

Research well on what your audience requires and why it should turn to an online platform, that too, yours. You must get your hands on good quality content and work hard on gathering a good team. There is no use in making a tutoring website when you do not have a great team and your website doesn’t have good quality content to offer.

Analyze the Competition

The online education industry is at its boom, and the market is flooded with free and paid eLearning platforms. Here you have to look upon your competition and learn from their mistakes. You must keep in mind that you have to be better than your rivals and try to provide the best to your audience. You can start with basic research and conduct online surveys, so to understand that what the other online learning platforms are lacking, and what the audience actually needs.

Make the Budget

Budget is a major constraint while planning to build a new eLearning platform. You must put some limits on your expenditure and decide what part of the development needs more spending.

Connect with a Good Team

You need to get in touch with a great development team who can guide you through the development process and can suggest you the best design and functionality for your tutoring website. The team must have enough experience in the eLearning platform development and should possess all the skills to transform your vision into reality.

Choose a Business Model

Before creating the tutoring website you must be aware of what business model you want to follow to monetize it. Your website can offer free education, or it can be commission-based. You can form a team of teachers to create content for the students and pay them on monthly basis, or you can go for the pay-per-lead business model too. So dig deeper and research the suitable business model for your website. You can also ask your development team for guidance on the same.

Include Interactive Features

To make the students interested and invested in your tutoring platform, you need to include some powerful interactive features on your website. The platform must be easy to use, and the graphics should be engaging enough. Features like performance tracking, report card, certificates, social media interaction, gamification, multimedia learning are a necessity for an E-Learning platform. Other than that, you must include options for webinars, customization, and chatting, too, to your website.

E-Learning and online tutoring is one big market, and to sustain the competition, you must keep up with the changing trends. To know more about online tutoring software development, you can contact the expert team of Xornor Technologies.