r/ESL_Freelance

Online English tutors - I’m looking for a few more testers for something I’ve been building specifically for tutors. 

After teaching online for years, I realised the actual exhausting part of tutoring often isn’t the teaching itself… it’s everything around it.

• Lesson planning.
• Homework.
• Organising notes.
• Tracking progress.
• Remembering what every student needs next lesson.

So I started building Classly Eli - an AI teaching assistant designed to handle a lot of that post-class admin in seconds.

You can upload:

• rough lesson notes
• textbook pages
• PDFs
• PPTs
• Zoom notes

…and it can generate:
 organised class notes
 tailored homework
 lesson plans
 flashcards
 progress tracking

I’ve already been using it heavily myself and a group of tutors are testing it too, so now I’m looking for a few more online English tutors who’d genuinely like to try it and give honest feedback.

Especially interested in tutors who:

• teach multiple students per day
• spend lots of unpaid time on prep/admin
• already use ChatGPT or AI tools in some way
• want more structure and organisation

It’s completely free during beta - I mainly want feedback from real tutors so I can keep improving it.

If you’d like to test it, comment below or send me a message and I’ll send the details,
Cheers all

I've been doing online teaching for a while. I found out that my voice cracked just after 2 hours of teaching. If I didn't stop, then my throat would start to feel hurt for the next few days, causing me to stop teaching for days.

I would like to work more per day. Is there any way to keep my voice as a teacher?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

I’m building a lesson‑prep tool for tutors and online ESL teachers that helps turn YouTube videos and transcripts into speaking prompts, exercises, and flashcards, so lessons are faster to prepare and more engaging for students.

As a language learner, it took me a long time to find a teacher who actually kept me talking and had real‑world content to discuss. Many teachers either stuck to grammar drills or had nothing to talk about, so that’s why I started building this — to help tutors focus more on conversation and practice, not just grammar.

I’m especially interested in feedback from working tutors:

- Does this solve a real pain point in your workflow?

- What would make it actually useful for your lessons?

- What would you change or add?

If you’re open to helping, please reply “interested” (or something similar) and I’ll DM you a beta link.

If you’ve tried anything like this before, I’d love to hear what worked and what didn’t — I’m genuinely open to feedback.