By Nick Seminerio
Tutorial is set to stay online for this school year and beyond, ditching the familiar blue paper passes. Our school’s Tutorial committee, which includes administrators, counselors, and teachers, in addition to all staff, have decided to stick with online systems, moving forward.
This year’s online sign up system, timetosignup.com, was piloted in January and met with mixed results. According to Counselor Sheila Souder, students had a greater incentive to attend Tutorial due to the variety of structured workshops available from teachers.
However, some students exploited the website by signing up fake and inappropriate names such as Adolf Hitler and George Washington.
In response to the challenges of timetosignup.com, a new automated system will be designed for next year with fewer kinks, according to Souder.
Assistant Prinicipal Chad Stuart said that staff felt it was silly to stop using timetosignup.com for the rest of the year and revert to blue passes, only to go back to a new system for the next school year.
Souder was excited to promote one of the new system’s features. “For example, you can’t sign up either your own or other people’s body parts,” she joked.
Another expected feature of the new system is its easier accessibility than timetosignup.com. Instead of each teacher having an individual sign up link, it will be one page accross the board, Souder said.
Stuart hopes that an app will be created for Tutorial signups.
Souder has gotten good feedback from teachers since the pilot, hearing that some kids are taking tutorial more seriously.
Sophomore Madison Lescohier said that she wouldn’t want the online system to continue. “Some teachers follow [the system] too strictly while others don’t, and for me it’s personally annoying because I can’t sign up at home: I have to do it at school,” Lescohier said.
Stuart hopes that the culture of Tutorial will change to a more academic focus.
“We’re gonna make [the new system] great,” he said.
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