r/RinglePlus

hi everyone, quick question. normally i receive 5s on my lessons, but someone gave me a 3 and said "not communicative" even though i asked follow-up questions, he seemed engaged in the lesson, and said there was nothing left to go over that we didn't get to before when we asked. he also told me he prefers i paraphrase after we go over each question.

i think it's quite obnoxious when students say the lesson was fine then give a low rating. it also gives me minor anxiety that these ratings will harm my booking rate, which has been steady so far. i asked follow up questions, checked in, etc - so i am wondering what "not communicative" means. am i missing something here? thanks!

I know South Korea has been embracing AI with open arms but the way it has infiltrated Ringle is IMO not that good.

It started with the AI feedback for the students, which based on what I've heard from them, is not always accurate and makes them self doubt some aspects of their English while making other students overconfident of areas they are lacking in because the AI gave them wrong feedback.

I also feel that many of the lesson materials are created with AI. I even saw a TOEIC practice lesson which included AI generated imagery (they still had the watermark from Gemini).

The automatically generated AI for tutors is pretty much useless. I don't think I've received one that I considered to help in anyway or address whatever it was caused the student to rate poorly.

Finally, it seems that all communication from the Ringle office is done with AI. I recently emailed them and the response I got just straight up read as being written with AI. At least before you could still feel the human touch.

What do you guys think? I understand there's probably no going back with AI but for a platform that is promoting learning a basic human skill like language, I feel the use of AI is becoming excessive.

How do you go about tutoring students with barely any English comprehension skills? Sometimes I get students, especially kids, who can hardly understand “how are you?” or “what is your name?”. At that point, I’m completely at a loss as to how to engage them in a conversation.

So I accumulated 3 strikes on my first day. Long story short, my account was approved in the middle of the night randomly (I created my slots a few days prior) and I woke up to 3 missed classes. I tried to appeal it because the email about my account now being active came in hours after the requests, but they didn't accept.

Unfortunately, this afternoon I missed a class. Completely my fault this time, I just messed up timings following another class. Literally so annoyed at myself for this.

I'm still new to the platform but I have been really enjoying it. My rating is currently 4.97 so I was doing okay (other than the mess-up this afternoon).

Am I cooked?

I just had probably the meanest student I’ve ever come across on the platform…

She wanted me to write down everything she said, which I usually do, and paraphrase it all. But when we got to some bullet points (that were reasonably detailed or unique), she said very curtly “why are you paraphrasing this?” instead of asking me politely to skip it.

I could tell she was fed up within 12 minutes of starting, and after thoroughly discussing one question, I suggested we take a look at the notes. To this, she immediately snapped “why are we moving on? We’re not done with this question.” Yet was giving me one word responses to all of my follow-up Q’s…

Several other times she snapped at me for not liking my questions, or rolled her eyes and sighed before answering. Anyone else have such bad luck or bad attitudes?

Hello, this is my second post here.

I'm on my third month tutoring, and generally, I've been doing pretty fine, but just wanted to express a feeling I have from time to time when tutoring some of my students. I think what I'm feeling is imposter syndrome when it comes to my abilities.

I know that I'm the native English speaker, but sometimes I have students that speak quite well and have the abilities to use professional language easily. They have years and even decades of experience of using English in business settings and it definitely shows.

Because of some of these students, I try my best to give advice. There are times when I suggest they can familiarize themselves with more common idioms or expressions but there are cases when I cannot think of any on the spot.

By the end of the session, especially the super short 20 minute sessions when I'm still trying to figure out how to be helpful, I can sense some dissatisfaction from the student.

Does anyone ever feel this way? I'd love any advice.

Also, I've been trying to transcribe every single word my students say for their responses. Does anyone have any advice to keep up with the students' pace? Any shorthand systems you use?

Thank you guys again.

So a student told me that it's his last lesson on Ringle. I told him that I wasn't allowed to contact him, but he could look up my name on LinkedIn (I had forgotten the policy and idk if I am allowed to do that). He then told me that he was gonna keep doing Ringle to help with English. I don't know how closely Ringle monitors you, but I don't want it to look like I was trying to offer him lessons because then I'd get terminated.

hey y'all, i feel like ringle's policies and systems are lowkey violating the type of employment/contract it offers its american tutors. i think they impose strict rules and regulations, and punishments, that would actually tread into a w-2 employee category. what do you guys think

Hi all. I've been using ringle for a week and a half now. At first, every slot I opened was automatically booked and I was getting a lot of requests. Now my LMS slots are still unbooked. and none of my slots for next week have been booked either.

My reviews have been decent so far. Students that have rated have left 5*, and the rest are auto-reviews. Yet, my rating is 4.83? I'm not sure why it dropped; I did double check but there were no negative reviews.

I'm not sure what is going on - is this normal for new tutors?