CLUE tutoring is more than a resource you can access when you're struggling in a class; it's a welcoming, inclusive space for students to connect, ask questions about various subjects, prepare for exams, and have support on homework.
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In person tutoring takes place in Mary Gates Hall Commons from Sunday - Thursday, 7pm - 11pm. Husky cards are required for after hours (after 5pm) access to the building.
Drop-in is currently closed.
Virtual Drop-in tutoring is available during CLUE hours Sunday - Thursday from 7pm - 11pm. Please check back then. Once you enter the portal and a tutor is ready for you, they will call you and a Zoom link will be provided via a banner notification.
Virtual exam reviews are offered for on-sequence introductory courses in the following subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Math & Physics.
Biology Study Groups take place weekly in-person in Mary Gates Hall. Signups are open for Spring Quarter!
CLUE will be virtual only on Thursday, May 15.
CLUE will be closed Sunday, May 25 in observance of Memorial Day.
CLUE provides a space for all students to be included, challenged, and supported in their educational journey. We expect that tutors and students alike enter into this space with respect for one another and treat others with kindness.
Do you have questions? Suggestions on what we can do better? Email us at clue@uw.edu.
Email us at clue@uw.edu.
We can help with the following subjects and courses:
Biology Drop-in tutoring is offered this quarter virtually on Sundays and Mondays and in-person in Mary Gates Hall on Tuesdays at 8 pm, Wednesdays at 9 pm, and Thursdays. Tutoring is available from 7 pm - 11 pm. It is a one-on-one tutoring session between you and a tutor.
Our goal is to engage you with the question, helping you work through it so that you feel confident in finding the solution on your own. You are expected to bring your own questions regarding your lecture material, course homework, exams, or practice problems. We will first ask you to explain your approach to the problem before we start helping you. This allows us to understand where you may have gone wrong and identify any concepts that need further clarification. Then, we will ask leading questions and hopefully guide you to a satisfactory answer.
We approach tutoring Biology with a growth mindset, aiming to clarify concepts and then practice applying them to new novel situations. We foster a discussion-based method of tutoring involving back-and-forth conversation between tutor and student that focuses on increasing overall biological understanding.
Bring a question or an attempted problem, along with a genuine desire to learn. We truly want to help you! However, if you are not actively engaged in the learning process and in working through the steps with us, we may not be able to provide the support you need.
Please bring any material related to your biology coursework. This includes class notes, practice problems/homework, previous exams, etc. Additionally, please be prepared to discuss these topics in-depth, and bring a positive growth mindset to tutoring.
We can help with the following subjects and courses:
Drop-in tutoring is offered during CLUE operating hours, 7 pm- 11 pm, Sunday-Thursday. It is a one-on-one tutoring session between you and a tutor. You are expected to bring your own questions and our tutors can help answer them. These sessions are typically 15-30 minutes long.
Exam reviews are offered for on-sequence introductory chemistry and organic chemistry courses each quarter For example, CHEM 237 is the on quarter course in the fall and CHEM 238 is the on quarter course in the winter. During the exam review session, tutors will present practice problems and detailed explanations for the answer. Sessions are typically 1.5 hours long.
Our goal is to engage you with the question, helping you work through it so that you feel confident in finding the solution on your own. You are expected to bring your own questions regarding your lecture material, course homework, exams, or practice problems. We will first ask you to explain your approach to the problem before we start helping you. This allows us to understand where you may have gone wrong and identify any concepts that need further clarification. Then, we will ask leading questions and hopefully guide you to a satisfactory answer.
Bring a question or an attempted problem, along with a genuine desire to learn. We truly want to help you! However, if you are not actively engaged in the learning process and in working through the steps with us, we may not be able to provide the support you need.
If you have more questions, feel free to put yourself back on the queue before 10:45 pm! It does help if you say what your question is in the signup (saying “aleks” is not as helpful as “I need help with related rates”).
Exam reviews are offered for general chemistry (CHEM 1x2) and organic chemistry (CHEM 23x). Check here to see if your course is supported this quarter! These exam reviews are led by 2 tutors from the CLUE chemistry team with problems from main course topics. This doesn’t guarantee they will appear on a test, just that it is an important concept that we would like for you to understand. We do not have access to the exam, so we base the problems we go over on what we see when students come in for Drop-In tutoring and what we see on your Canvas pages.
Typically we hold 3 exam reviews per quarter. 1 for each midterm, and then 1 for the final. The midterm reviews last ~90 minutes, but our tutors are more than happy to stay after for 15 minutes to answer any questions you have. An email is sent to any student in the relevant course regarding information about the exam review.
We can help with the following languages and courses:
Drop-in tutoring for CSE is offered virtually on Wednesdays and in-person in Mary Gates Hall on Mondays and Thursdays from 7 pm - 11 pm. Check in at the front desk before seeing a tutor in MGH! It is a one-on-one tutoring session between you and a tutor. You are expected to bring your own questions and our tutors can help answer them. These sessions are typically 15-30 minutes long.
Our goal is to engage you with the question, helping you work through it so that you feel confident in finding the solution on your own. You are expected to bring your own questions regarding your lecture material, course homework, exams, or practice problems. We will first ask you to explain your approach to the problem and any code you have written before we start helping you. This allows us to understand where you may have gone wrong and identify any concepts that need further clarification. Then, we will ask leading questions and hopefully guide you to a satisfactory answer.
You are expected to bring questions that you tried to code to the best of your ability. We will ask you about your approach and other follow up questions so we can understand the problem. Throughout the session, we will walk through your attempts, explain any missing pieces, and provide helpful hints and leading questions.
Bring your questions and a desire to learn! To gain the most out of the tutoring session, please have some familiarity with the language you are programming in, along with your attempts and thought process on the assignment you need help on.
Generally 15-30 minutes. If there are not students waiting, we can spend a few more minutes with you. After your session, we expect you to spend at least 15 minutes independently thinking or coding a solution before re-joining the queue.
If you have more questions, feel free to put yourself back on the queue before 10:45 pm! It does help if you say what your question is in the signup (saying “python” is not as helpful as “I need help with linked lists in python”).
We can help with the following subjects and courses:
We do not support statistics or economics courses. Please check with the front desk if you need assistance with these courses, but generally we do not have tutors with that expertise.
Drop-in tutoring is offered during CLUE operating hours, 7 pm- 11 pm, Sunday-Thursday. It is a one-on-one tutoring session between you and a tutor. You are expected to bring your own questions and our tutors can help answer them. These sessions are typically 15-30 minutes long.
Exam reviews are offered for the introductory Calculus series (MATH 124, 125 & 126). During the exam review session, tutors will present practice problems and detailed explanations for the answer. Sessions are typically 1.5 hours long.
Our goal is to engage you with the question, helping you work through it so that you feel confident in finding the solution on your own. You are expected to bring your own questions regarding your lecture material, course homework, exams, or practice problems. We will first ask you to explain your approach to the problem before we start helping you. This allows us to understand where you may have gone wrong and identify any concepts that need further clarification. Then, we will ask leading questions and hopefully guide you to a satisfactory answer.
Bring a question or an attempted problem, along with a genuine desire to learn. We truly want to help you! However, if you are not actively engaged in the learning process and in working through the steps with us, we may not be able to provide the support you need.
Generally 15-30 minutes. Though they can tend to get a little longer if you ask a particular question that is rather nasty or there’s a concept that you’re really struggling with. If the night is really busy, we will be more strict to keeping to the 30 minutes and leave you to play around with what wisdom we dispense.
If you have more questions, feel free to put yourself back on the queue before 10:45 pm! It does help if you say what your question is in the signup (saying “webassign 1.61” is not as helpful as “I need help with taking the derivative with trig functions”).
Exam reviews are offered for MATH 124, 125, and 126. These exam reviews are led by 2 tutors from the CLUE math team with problems from main course topics. This doesn’t guarantee they will appear on a test, just that it is an important concept that we would like for you to understand. We do not have access to the exam, so we base the problems we go over on what we see when students come in for Drop-In tutoring and what we see on the Math Department’s Exam Archive.
Typically we hold 3 exam reviews per quarter. 1 for each midterm, and then 1 for the final. The midterm reviews last ~90 minutes, but our tutors are more than happy to stay after for 15 minutes to answer any questions you have. An email is sent to any student in the relevant course regarding information about the exam review.
We can help with the following subjects and courses:
Drop-in tutoring is offered during CLUE operating hours, 7 pm- 11 pm, Sunday-Thursday. It is a one-on-one tutoring session between you and a tutor. You are expected to bring your own questions and our tutors can help answer them. These sessions are typically 15-30 minutes long.
Exam reviews are for the on-sequence 11X/12X courses, typically two days before the exam takes place. During the exam review session, tutors will present practice problems and detailed explanations for the answer. Sessions are typically 1.5 hours long.
Our goal is to engage you with the question, helping you work through it so that you feel confident in finding the solution on your own. You are expected to bring your own questions regarding your lecture material, course homework, exams, or practice problems. We will first ask you to explain your approach to the problem before we start helping you. This allows us to understand where you may have gone wrong and identify any concepts that need further clarification. Then, we will ask leading questions and hopefully guide you to a satisfactory answer.
We try to equip our students with general problem-solving skills that are transferable to classes beyond physics. There is obviously an emphasis on physics coursework, but many of our approaches to physics underpin a broad range of problems in STEM.
Bring a question or an attempted problem, along with a genuine desire to learn. We truly want to help you! However, if you are not actively engaged in the learning process and in working through the steps with us, we may not be able to provide the support you need.
On busy nights, we try to keep our sessions under half an hour, but if there aren’t many students in the queue, we tend to spend more time for each student.
If you have more questions, feel free to put yourself back on the queue before 10:45 pm! It does help if you say what your question is in the signup (saying “tutorial” is not as helpful as “I need help with single slit diffraction”).
Exam reviews are offered for introductory physics (PHYS 11x and PHYS 12x). Check here to see if your course is supported this quarter! These exam reviews are led by 2 tutors from the CLUE physics team with problems from main course topics. This doesn’t guarantee they will appear on a test, just that it is an important concept that we would like for you to understand. We do not have access to the exam, so we base the problems we go over on what we see when students come in for Drop-In tutoring and what we see on your Canvas pages.
Typically we hold 3 exam reviews per quarter. 1 for each midterm, and then 1 for the final. The midterm reviews last ~90 minutes, but our tutors are more than happy to stay after for 15 minutes to answer any questions you have. An email is sent to any student in the relevant course regarding information about the exam review.
Our goal is to make appointments available to all writers and to nurture their independent learning. For this reason, we have a “3-2-1” policy for writing tutoring appointments:
Writers may have no more than 3 tutoring sessions to work on the same assignment.
Writers may have no more than 2 drop-in tutoring sessions per day.
Writers may only work on 1 assignment per tutoring session. After working with a tutor on an assignment, writers need to revise that assignment for 1 hour before returning to the queue to work on the same assignment.
At the CLUE Writing Center, we have one goal in mind: to help you become a better writer. To that end, we believe that writing is a process. Even the most talented writers cannot sit down in a vacuum and produce a polished text on the first try. Whether you need help talking through ideas, honing an outline you've been working on, evaluating a draft mid-composition, or looking through a final draft—we're confident we can help you write more efficiently and effectively.
We will look at any piece of writing you bring in, including but is not limited to: papers, short response assignments, theses, cover letters, résumés, personal statements, scholarship applications, graduate school statements of purpose, memos, and lab reports.
To get the most out of your session, we suggest you bring the following:
We are a drop-in center, so it is first come, first served!
In-person: Check in at the front desk after 7pm. Enter the Writing Center through the double doors and scan the QR code inside the suite to get in line.
Virtually: Sign-up begins at 7pm virtually. Go to our main website, select Drop-in Tutoring, and Virtual tutoring to get in line for Writing (or any other area) . When you are next up and a tutor is ready to see you, you will get a notification on the main check-in page letting you know who is calling you and what their zoom link is. Go ahead and click that link and you'll be sent to that tutor's zoom room.
You will have 5 minutes to respond to the tutor virtually calling you. If you do not show up in the tutor's zoom room after 5 minutes, or after being called twice, we will delete your name from the list. This is only fair to the other students waiting to access the Writing Center.
At the CLUE Writing Center, our aim is always two-fold: to help you with your concerns about the paper at hand and to better familiarize you with universal writing strategies that will help you address similar concerns in future assignments. To achieve these goals, most sessions begin with a tutor asking you a series of questions regarding the assignment, your professor's expectations, and any specific concerns or areas of inquiry you would like to address during the session. In almost every instance, the tutor will ask to see the assignment prompt, so please bring it!
Once the tutor has a strong grasp of your writing assignment and your specific concerns/needs, the tutor will typically spend 20-30 minutes reading (or having you read) all or part of the draft that you have both agreed to focus on. During this time, the tutor may make some instructive notes in the margins (please note that they won't "fix" grammar, punctuation, and style) that they will then discuss with you. This discussion will frequently involve asking you more questions about your ideas and/or getting you to talk through problems arising in the draft. The tutor will model example solutions for some of the concerns you are working to address as well as explain relevant conventions affecting their suggestions. If you have not yet written anything, the tutor will help you brainstorm and organize your ideas.
At the end of each session, you can expect to spend time developing a plan for further writing and revision. You can also expect to take copious notes and/or outline if necessary.
Each session typically lasts 45 minutes, but can be a little shorter or longer depending on your needs. Sessions cannot exceed one hour in length in order to be respectful toward other students.
CLUE uses our Queue platform along with Zoom to facilitate online tutoring. You must be logged in with your UW NetID and password to access CLUE.
If you want to attend in person, just bring your Husky Card and the assignment you are working on! Mary Gates Hall requires Husky Card for access after 5pm.
A personal computer or tablet with internet access and sound is necessary to access virtual CLUE.
If you have any questions about accessing CLUE, please email us at clue@uw.edu.
