Online tutoring jobs

What the work is

• Students and parents find you on the marketplace, ask for a time, and you accept, suggest another or decline
• Lessons are live on video with a shared whiteboard, maths notation and screen sharing, with nothing to install
• Between lessons you can set homework in cookie and see each student’s weakest topics as it marks their work

What you earn

We take 20% of each lesson and you keep the rest, with no membership fee. Work it out for your rate:

Who can apply

We are selective about who teaches here: we look for tutors at top universities, we interview everybody ourselves, and nobody is listed without a criminal record check on file.

1. Where they are studying, or studied. We look for tutors at top universities: Oxford, Cambridge and the Russell Group in the UK, and their equivalents elsewhere. It is what we look for rather than a rule we apply blindly, so a reviewer can say yes to somebody outstanding from a university not on our list, and can say no to somebody who is at one of them.
2. A university email address we verify ourselves. We send a code to it and they have to enter it, which is the quickest honest answer to "are you actually there", checked by software rather than taken on trust. It is a convenience rather than a requirement: somebody who has graduated, or whose university does not issue one, makes their case in writing instead and a person reads it.
3. Their degree, their school grades and a CV. Real grades in the subjects they want to teach, in writing, reviewed by a person. Not "strong A-levels": which ones, what they got, and when.
4. An interview with us, in this platform. On the same video system lessons run on, so we have met them and seen them teach something rather than talk about teaching.
5. Proof they are who they say they are. A photo of a passport or driving licence and a photo of their face, through Stripe. Stripe tells us the outcome and those photographs never reach us. A right-to-work check is separate, and a copy of the document from that check is kept on record, as the law requires.
6. An Enhanced DBS check, before the profile exists. Not before the first lesson: before anybody can see them at all. Outside the UK, their own country’s equivalent, read and decided on by a person. The software refuses to publish a profile without one.

Where somebody studied is a fact about them, not a claim of endorsement; Cookie Tutoring is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any university.

Still at university? Tutoring alongside your degree says how it fits around term. To see the room you would teach in, take a look at the lesson room.

Questions tutors ask

Can I tutor online from home?

Yes. Every lesson is online, in a room in the browser with video and a shared whiteboard, so you can teach from anywhere with a good connection, and set the hours you are free.

Do I need a teaching qualification?

No. We look for tutors at top universities, read your grades and CV, interview you on the platform, check your identity and need a criminal record check on file before your profile is listed.

How much do online tutors earn here?

You set your own rate, at least £30 an hour. We take 20% of each lesson, so at £30 you keep £24. Earnings become payable 24 hours after a lesson and are sent weekly to a Stripe account you connect.

Is there a minimum number of hours?

No. You choose the times you offer and whether you are taking on new students, and you can pause your profile.

Can I tutor from outside the UK?

Yes. A tutor can teach students anywhere. Outside the UK you give us your own country’s criminal record check instead of a DBS, and a person reads it and decides.

Everything about applying, the checks and payouts is on Become a tutor.