Pear Deck Tutor has over 10,000 tutors. 78% of their tutors hold at least an advanced degree. Each tutor goes through 15 hours of training, quarterly reviews, and follows Pear Deck Tutor’s See more information below.

Here is a snippet from the Pear Deck Tutor Honor Code:

Pear Deck Tutor does not allow or participate in academic dishonesty in any form. Tutors are to work through students’ assignments with them. They will not complete tests or assignments, or simply provide students answers without the required work.

Pear Deck Tutor’s platform was developed to help connect teachers with learners. It is not a platform to exchange answers or completed assignments. Effective tutoring is more than simply giving out answers to questions. We encourage pioneering problem-solving approaches, helping students comprehend the methods required to find the answer instead of giving them the answer and working backwards.

All lessons and messages on the site are monitored, and any violation of Pear Deck Tutor’s academic honesty policy will result in suspension and review.

If you feel that students are misusing Pear Deck Tutor, you can contact UAB eLearning, to start an investigation. This may result in suspending the student's Pear Deck Tutor account.

Yes, all tutoring sessions are recorded and archived. If you would like to review a specific tutoring session, please contact UAB eLearning and include the student and tutoring subject you would like to investigate.

Students at UAB are provided up to 3 hours per week with a 1-hour cap on each session. Once this limit is reached, the following message will display.

Students who have reached their limit are encourage to seek out other tutoring services on campus.

Students can use any recent version of a popular browser, but we highly recommend downloading Chrome for the best experience on Pear Deck Tutor.

However, to use audio/video features in the lesson space, you must have Chrome, Firefox or Safari 11. Screen sharing is only supported on Chrome.

Find more information about TutorMe’s Requirements here.

Pear Deck Tutor offers over 300 subjects. The categories include: Computer Science, Engineering, Foreign Language, History, Humanities, Math, Professional, Science, & Social Science. See complete list of all subjects here.

1. Select Pear Deck Tutor from the course navigation on the left.
2. Click on the Chat Bubble at the bottom right corner of the Pear Deck Tutor home page.

How to Contact Pear Deck Tutor

1. Select Pear Deck Tutor from the course navigation on the left.
2. Select the name of the tutor you have recently tutored with from the right-hand side of the Pear Deck Tutor home page. A chat box will appear where you can message and/or start a new lesson with the tutor.

Note: The dot to the left of the Tutor's name indicates if they are online or not. Gray means they are not online. Green means that they are online.

Note: If the tutor is currently in a lesson and you attempt to start a lesson, your lesson will be automatically rejected, but you can leave a chat for the tutor which they will see after their lesson is over.

Students do not need to schedule a time. Simply click the Pear Deck Tutor link inside of Canvas and fill out the prompts to be paired with a tutor.

Once you have worked with a tutor, you can simply send them a message through the chatbox and schedule a time that best works for both of you. You can schedule to be online at the same time as the tutor, and you can request a lesson directly from your chat box.

You can upload a file through Pear Deck Tutor’s matching system, the chat box, and the file share tab in the lesson space.

Matching System

To upload a file through the matching system, follow the steps below.

1. Search a subject or topic on the TutorMe homepage.
2. Write a brief description of what you need help with, and click browse to upload a document from your computer.

File Sharing Tab

To upload a document using the file share feature while in a tutoring session, follow the steps below.

1. Click on the file share tab in the lesson space.
2. Click Upload.

Note: The file will be available for the student and the tutor to view and download.

Chat Box

To upload a document in the chat box in the lesson space, follow the steps below.

1. Click on the attachment icon at the bottom of the chat box.

Note: The file will be available for the student and the tutor to view and download.

Students can report a user via the gear icon on the chat box. Click here for more information. If you continue to have issues with using Pear Deck Tutor, please contact UAB eLearning.