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.
Get tutoring online or in-person, check out our calendar of live discussion sessions and exam reviews, learn about the subjects we cover, meet our tutors, and watch a video about in-person CLUE.
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
| Writing | Writing | Writing | Writing | Writing |
| Physics | Physics | Physics | Physics | Physics |
| Chemistry | Chemistry | Chemistry | Chemistry | Chemistry |
| Math | Math | Math | Math | |
| Biology | CSE | Biology | CSE | |
| Statistics | Biology |
* subjects in Italics are available only virtually that night
CLUE will have Math tutors on Sunday 12/4 to support your finals!
In-person tutoring takes place in Mary Gates Hall Commons. Bring your Husky card to access the building after-hours.
As per UW policy, wearing a well-fitted high-quality mask is highly encouraged while in Mary Gates Hall.
Drop-in is currently closed.
Virtual tutoring starts at 7pm.
When you enter drop-in tutoring, select Virtual Tutoring, and choose a subject area. Once a tutor is ready for you, they will call you and a Zoom link will be provided via a banner notification.
Virtual appointments are only offered for CSE & Writing at this time.
In order to ensure maximum support for all students, students are limited to 2 appointments per day, per subject.
Discussion sessions take place either in person (MGH 2nd floor) or virtually. Virtual exam reviews are offered for on-sequence introductory courses in the following subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Math & Physics.
CLUE tutoring occurs Sunday-Thursday 7-11pm.
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.
We want to hear about your experience. Send us your information via the CLUE Feedback Form.
We can help with the following subjects and courses:
Drop-in tutoring is offered during CLUE operating hours, 7-11 p.m., on Sunday & Wednesday (virtual) and in-person (MGH) on Monday. Check in at the front desk to meet with our tutors in person or online! It is a one-on-one tutoring session between you and a tutor.
We can help with the following subjects and courses:
Drop-in tutoring is offered during CLUE operating hours, 7-11 p.m., 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 15-20 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.
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 helps us to see what type of mistakes you have made and which concept you are missing. Then, we will ask leading questions and hopefully guide you to a satisfactory answer.
Questions. They can be problems that you have worked on but failed to obtain the correct answer or a hard concept from class that you do not understand.
If you have more questions, feel free to put yourself back on the queue before 10:45 p.m.!
Drop-in tutoring for CSE is offered in person on Monday and virtually on Thursday. 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 15-20 minutes long.
Scheduled appointments can be arranged through our website. Students can select available times for them and the tutor outside of CLUE hours. These sessions are typically 30 mins long and are 1-on-1 sessions with the tutor.
We can help with the following subjects and courses:
Drop-in tutoring is offered during CLUE operating hours, 7-11 p.m., 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 15-20 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.
We are here to help you understand what’s going on, not give you the answer. Coming to CLUE and expecting us to solve your problem for you is going to be a problem. We want to engage you with the question and get you to work through the problem so that you can answer it on your own afterwards.
When a tutor gets to you, they will most likely ask what your question is, if you have attempted the problem, what the relevant material is, if you’ve covered concept xyz, or what your current understanding of the material is. We need to get a feel for where you’re at, before we can start going down our own path.
A question and/or an attempted problem along with a desire to learn. We want to help, we really do! But if you’re just not interested in learning what needs to be done and being with us on the steps we need to take, then that really hurts the vibe.
On paper, 15 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 15 minutes and leave you to play around with what wisdom we dispense.
Just go back onto the clue queue online site and queue yourself back in, the same way you did so when you first queued up for CLUE tutoring. 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, as well as exam reviews for MATH 120 during the autumn quarter. These exam reviews are led by 2-3 tutors from the CLUE math team with problems that they think are worth going over. This doesn’t mean they will appear on a test, just that the problem is interesting in terms of the concepts that it goes over, and it’s those concepts that we would like for you to understand. We don't have access to anything that you're covering in your courses, and 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 and ask any burning questions you may have. While the final exam review lasts ~2 hours. An email is sent to any student in the relevant course regarding information about the exam review.
Any class that we give an Exam Review for doesn’t have a PDI for that quarter. A PDI is a night in which for the first 2 hours of CLUE a tutor is specifically dedicated to getting to students for that particular PDI and answering their questions. During nights that we have PDIs we tend to see students for the PDI gather in a specific area and all end up helping each other out as well as the tutor. After a PDI has ended there’s no reason to leave, as you will still be helped, albeit just at a slower pace. The number of PDIs a course has is dependent on how many students we typically see for that course as well as how many exams that course gives. Typically, PDIs are a 1-5 before an exam, but since many of the courses we give PDIs for don’t follow a similar structure as the intro calc series, they can be more sporadically laid out. We have PDIs for Math 307, 308, 309, and 324, as well as 120 for the quarters that we don’t give 120 exam reviews.
We can help with the following subjects and courses:
Drop-in tutoring is offered during CLUE operating hours, 7-11 p.m., 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 15-20 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.
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.
You can expect tutors to ask leading questions, give constructive feedback, and foster independent learning & growth mindsets.
Make sure to bring your questions ready to be asked, a functional calculator, and a distraction free state of mind!
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.
Simple! Just get back into the physics queue before 10:45 p.m. (or earlier if the questions on hand are formidable) and someone should be able to see you.
Statistics will be entirely virtual and only be offered once a week throughout the 2022-2023 academic year. We encourage you to visit the Statistics Study Center if you would like more regular support.
Drop-in tutoring for Statistics is offered virtually on Tuesday. It is a one-on-one tutoring session between you and a tutor. You are expected to bring your own questions and our tutor can help answer them. These sessions are typically 15-20 minutes long.
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! Normally, sign-up begins around 6:45 p.m. (PST) 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 between 5-7 minutes to respond to the tutor virtually calling you. If you do not show up in the tutor's zoom room after 5-7 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. If you would like to leave and come back, please ask the Front Desk Manager (a separate line to get into) for an estimate of your wait time—but keep in mind tutors cannot ever guarantee the length of your actual wait time.
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 s/he won't "fix" grammar, punctuation, and style) that s/he 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 his/her 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.
Drop-in tutoring is offered for all our subjects (Chemistry, Math, Physics, and Writing) Sunday through Thursday from 7 p.m.–11 p.m. Drop-in tutoring is first-come, first-serve. You may wait five minutes or more depending on the availability of our tutors and how many students are waiting for help.
Appointment tutoring ensures that you meet with a tutor at a time you signed up for. There is no waiting time and you are guaranteed thirty minutes of one-on-one tutoring. Subjects and availability change each quarter, please review the Appointments page for more information.
Both options provide one-on-one tutoring for personalized support.
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.
If you would like help with an academic subject but need more time than is available via drop-in tutoring, consider getting a private tutor. We can send out an inquiry and see if anyone is available and then connect you with that tutor.
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