ORSOT for Secondary School Students

Welcome:

ORSOT  welcomes and caters for the learning needs of Secondary School students in the Central West region of NSW through online tuition.  Current subjects  are in Math and the Sciences, but we anticipate expanding into all KLA's by the end of year if there is sufficient need.

Students may be at home, or at another suitable venue, and receive tuition via their computer from a qualified teacher in their area of need in Math or Science through a live stream broadcast or a webinar.

Equipment Requirements:

At a minimum students will need access to Wi-Fi, and a computer with a build in audio and webcam. Most modern computers already have these features.
To improve the quality of your online lesson you could even invest in headset with speaker phone, and a webcam. These devices plug directly into your computer.
 

Online Learning and Tuition:

At ORSOT, online tuition may involve anything from dealing with the principles and concepts in a topic, exam preparation through the revision and understanding of difficult topics, to help with homework and assignments. Learning is not just through online lessons, but through ongoing formative feedback where your tutor is able to make an ongoing  assessment of your degree of understanding of concepts covered in a topic.

During the course of your tuition, your teacher is able to upload many learning materials, to assess your improvement, and to help you achieve your potential. You can access these materials at any time, simply by logging into your account, clicking on your subject, and then entering the subject's "Course Curriculum" page. Students can complete online assignments, tests, upload and download set-work, ask questions, and even learn through recorded webinars and podcasts when not live online.

ORSOT aims to cover the learning needs of secondary school students in the central west region of NSW, including those involved in home-schooling. Students may communicate with their teacher through their subject's "discussion feed" community if they have specific tuition needs or questions in that subject. On the completion of a lesson, period of instruction or course, you can rate your teacher out of 5 stars, and provide feedback on the effectiveness of your received instruction.

Students with special tuition needs can register and enrol with ORSOT by clicking on the "Student Help Desk' link in the Teachme2online menu at the top of this page, and completing their details. We plan to run classes on Saturday and Sunday from 3-4 pm to cater for these students. The same tuition fee applies as for the week days classes. Need more information? For the complete guide to using ORSOT as a student, go to: "How to Use ORSOT as a Student"

STEPS TO BECOMING A STUDENT WITH ORSOT

Registration with ORSOT- Step 1

Registration with ORSOT is completely free of charge, and relatively straight forward. Here you can indicate the subject or subjects you require for tuition, choose your tuition time or times ( each tutorial is of one-hour duration) each weekday (Monday to Friday) over the 8 week period for term 1:  From 17 Feb- 21 Feb (Week 1 for 7-10 students) until Week 8 ( 7-11 April) which occurs at the end of Term1. 

Currently, the subjects on offer are: 

Science- Years 7-8, 9-10 (all topics); 11-12 Biology, 11-12 Chemistry, 11-12 Physics, 11-12 Science Life Skills 

Mathematics- Years 7-8, 9-10 (all topics): 11-Maths standard, 
12 Maths standard 1, 12 Maths standard 2 , 11-12 Maths Life Skills

 To view these subjects, go to the ORSOT subject page 

Please note: if you are less than 15 years of age, then you will need to ask your parent, guardian or carer to complete the ORSOT student registration form for you. (appears at the bottom of the page)

 To register for tuition with ORSOT, go to Student Registration for Tuition

 Communicating your tuition needs- Step 2


In order to make your tuition sessions as productive as possible your tutor needs to know your tuition needs. Not just the subject or topic, but what you do not understand including the content covered in class, and the basic principles and concepts that you may have misunderstand, misinterpreted or simply missed because you may have been absent from school at the time, or were unable to focus on during class time at school. Completing step 2 as accurately as you can gives us at ORSOT a huge opportunity to put you back on track and achieve your personal best in the subject that has been causing you hardship. You will automatically go to this step, once you submit your registration application.

 To check out this Step, go to Tuition needs

Enrolment with ORSOT- Step 3

 To select your tuition subject from the ORSOT subject page, simply click on the subject's name. When you do this, you will be able to read a description of the subject, and also to read about the subject's tutor. Scroll dow and you will come to "Tuition Fees". Select your required number of tuition sessions (up to 5 at any one time, each for 1 hour) , click on the tab, and pay the amount owing. Payment can be made either through Pay Pal or Visa. All payments received by the ORSOT trust account are for "Goods and Services".

 Once payment is made, you will automatically go to the "curriculum" page, when you can see the lesson outlines ( click on start) and all the resources associated with your tuition class. You are now enrolled for tuition in this subject with ORSOT. 

Once your enrolment is received, we will send you a temporary password which will enable you to log in through the "sign in" menu option in the above teachme2online front page, and begin your account set-up. 

In your account, you can change your password, fill in your details and upload a photo of yourself or avatar. You can also respond and reply to messages in your communication feed. You can also log into your account at any time and enrol for tuition in any subject simply by clicking the enrolment tab for that subject and paying the tuition fee. 
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Attending Online Classes 

For students registered with ORSOT, and who have paid tuition fees for a subject, you can register to attend an online class in that subject in any one of several ways: 

1) When you log into your account, you will notice the following (as an example) message appearing near your Notifications Bell:

Next stop . Let's go!