u/bom_tombadill

Do you use the classroom Notes panel (Homework / New vocabulary / Error correction fields) consistently, or did you try it and drift back to your own thing? Same question for Lesson Insights if you have it enabled — is the AI summary actually useful for planning the next lesson, or do you skim and ignore it?

If you use your own system (Google Docs/Notion/spreadsheet per student) — what does it look like, and how much time does it eat between lessons?

Also curious whether your students ever review what you write anywhere, or if it disappears into the void once the lesson ends.

Question for both sides. My tutors have all used Zoom/Meet + a shared Google Doc for notes rather than Preply's built-in classroom or note features, and I'm wondering how universal that is.

Students: does your tutor keep notes somewhere, and do you ever actually review them? After 6+ months with a tutor, do you have any real record of what you've learned, or is it scattered?

Tutors: how do you keep track of what each student knows — what vocab you've covered, mistakes they keep repeating? Do you re-read old notes before lessons, keep some system, or mostly work from memory? Has anyone tried Preply's built-in tools and stuck with them (or not — why)?

Question for both sides. My tutors have all used Zoom/Meet + a shared Google Doc for notes rather than italki's built-in classroom or note features, and I'm wondering how universal that is.

Students: does your tutor keep notes somewhere, and do you ever actually review them? After 6+ months with a tutor, do you have any real record of what you've learned, or is it scattered?

Tutors: how do you keep track of what each student knows — what vocab you've covered, mistakes they keep repeating? Do you re-read old notes before lessons, keep some system, or mostly work from memory? Has anyone tried italki's built-in tools and stuck with them (or not — why)?

I've been doing weekly lessons with a tutor for a while and every lesson generates a Google Doc full of new vocab, corrections, and grammar notes. I've realized I almost never go back to them — by lesson 30 it's a graveyard of docs I've looked at maybe twice.

Curious what other people's systems look like: Do you review old lesson notes, mine are often more of a scratchpad of random vocab and some grammar and answers so questions I have. Turn them into Anki cards or something else? Or do they mostly just pile up? And honestly, do you feel like you retain what you cover in lessons, or does stuff from a month ago quietly disappear?

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I've been doing weekly lessons with a tutor for a while and every lesson generates a Google Doc full of new vocab, corrections, and grammar notes. I've realized I almost never go back to them — by lesson 30 it's a graveyard of docs I've looked at maybe twice.

Curious what other people's systems look like: Do you review old lesson notes, mine are often more of a scratchpad of random vocab and some grammar and answers so questions I have. Turn them into Anki cards or something else? Or do they mostly just pile up? And honestly, do you feel like you retain what you cover in lessons, or does stuff from a month ago quietly disappear?