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Using Bramble for your home tutoring lessons

Are you currently doing a combination of home and online tuition? Learn how to effectively use Bramble for both.

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An Expert Guide to Academic Coaching

How to become an elite-level tutor and skyrocket your students’ performance through academic coaching.

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Announcing Smart Resource Library

Find, save, organise, and import your best tutoring resources at the click of a button.

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Students begin to embrace AI for learning

Over half of students are already using AI tools for personal interest, revision and homework.

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Online tutoring continues to grow

Over 2,200 surveyed teachers, tutors and students want to keep the vast majority of tuition online.

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How to revise from your tutoring

A modern way to revise for your exams. How to use your online tutoring lessons for high-quality effective revision.

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The Smart Search Revision Raffle returns!

The more you use Smart Search over the coming months, the better your chance of winning an iPad.

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Using deliberate practice to become a better tutor

The secret ingredient you need to keep improving and increase your value as a tutor.

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Lessons from 1,000 hours of online tutoring

Tips and examples from a 1,000-hour tutor on how to use technology to enhance your tutoring lessons.

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33 top tips for online tutors

We've collected the very best tips from experienced online tutors and whittled them down to these top 33.

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How to teach maths online

Tips from top tutors on how you can make your online maths tutoring even more effective.

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Online tutoring for science tutors

Learn how to deliver fantastic science lessons online, including examples from experienced tutors.

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How to deliver effective English lessons online

Tips on delivering great English lessons, covering everything from preparation to post-session analysis.

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15 online tutoring tips for Students

We’ve asked some experienced students to share their advice on having effective and enjoyable online tutoring sessions.

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In person only tutoring now least favourite

Having now experienced the benefits, three quarters of tutors and students want to continue online tutoring.

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Introducing next generation Smart Search

The next generation of Smart Search helps students learn from their learning long after their tutoring happened.

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Bramble supporting Tutor The Nation

Bramble is set to play a key role in tuition charity Tutor The Nation’s next stage of development.

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Millions Hours, Birds Eye View & Smart Subtopics

As we pass a million hours on Bramble, we're excited to unveil Birds Eye View and Smart Subtopic functionality.

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CUE Ratings to help measure impact

CUE Ratings capture a detailed picture of a student’s confidence, understanding and engagement over time.

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Pearson Partners with Bramble for UK NTP

Pearson is partnering with Bramble’s live online tutoring platform as part of its National Tutoring Programme work.

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Getting the most out of live online tutoring

Read our comprehensive report delivering insights from half a million hours and thousands of users.

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Reintroducing Paid Subscriptions

After 6 months of free access, learn more about our paid subscriptions packed with features and functionality.

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Announcing Smart Subject Detection

The first of many AI powered tools designed to help take tutoring to the next level.

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Online tutoring more effective than in person

A preliminary analysis of our comprehensive survey shows students find online tutoring more effective.

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Maths tops Bramble lockdown learning league table

Maths teaching has taken up more than a third of the hours on Bramble in May.

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Bramble to help socially distanced schools teach entire classes

Broadcast meets a growing demand to teach larger groups on Bramble.

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Why we built Bramble Broadcast

8 millions students in the UK are not receiving any live lessons, we hope Broadcast can help.

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Tutoring younger students online

We spoke to some experienced home tutors about making the transition to teaching younger students online.

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Revision Raffle

Win a Surface Go by making the most of Smart Search to enhance your revision over the next three months.

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Best drawing tablets for online tutoring in 2021

We've updated our reviews of the best drawing tablets for online tutoring.

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Coronavirus and tutoring

We are making Bramble freely available to tutors and agencies to help them respond to the Coronavirus outbreak.

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Search Based Learning

A new paradigm in tutoring which puts students at the centre by helping them learn from their learning.

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6 benefits of online tutoring for students

Discover the 6 reasons why every student should be taking advantage of online tutoring.

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5 reasons for tutors to move online

Teach more, travel less. Unlock the world and deliver a better, safer service to students.

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The best equipment for online tutoring – gold

Deliver the very best online tutoring experience with the gold standard of equipment.

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The best equipment for online tutoring – silver

Got a touchscreen device or tablet already? Connect it to Bramble to enhance your experience.

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The best equipment for online tutoring – bronze

Adding a drawing tablet can make a big difference to your online tutoring experience.

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The best equipment for online tutoring – audio

Find out what audio equipment you need for your online tutoring – it's pretty straightforward.

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The best equipment for online tutoring

Our comprehensive guide to all the equipment you need to deliver a great online tutoring experience.

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Back to school updates: text, PDFs and iPads

We've added multi-line text support, made sharing PDFs even faster and fixed some iPad problems.

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Bramble goes universal with full iOS support

We're excited to annouce full lesson and recording support on iOS devices.

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Using Tutors' Guild resources

Some tips on how you can get the most out of Tutors' Guild resources on Bramble.

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AI powered revision with Bramble

AI Synopsis helps students to easily identify which sessions they want to revise.

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Bramble is now award-winning!

We're delighted to have won the innovation award with Tutor Doctor at the BFA Awards 2018.

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BFA Innovation Award nomination

Our partnership with Tutor Doctor has been nominated for a BFA Innovation Award.

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Summer learning and online tutoring

Online tutoring can help combat summer learning loss without getting in the way of the summer festivities.

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Resource sharing transformed

Not only can you now share resources from any device, you can also instantly access all of your previous resources.

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Why is online tutoring great for tutors?

Online tutoring is creating great opportunities for tutors to teach more, teach better and teach globally.

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Why is online tutoring great for students?

Technology transforms industries when it goes from making something more convenient to making it more convenient AND better.

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A flying start with online tutoring

Use our new Are You Ready tool to help that vital first session get off to a flying start.

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Bramble voice infrastructure goes global

You can now be confident that wherever in the world you are, your voice will always be routed via the lowest latency route.

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Introducing Smart Playback

One giant leap for online tutoring, harnessing the latest technology to offer something that's simply impossible offline.

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Sharpening up — increased resolution

We've just released an update to Bramble which doubles the resolution, meaning there's now four times as many pixels on every page.

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Playback update — remember everything

With our latest release, students can review any session at anytime, giving them a powerful revision tool.

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When to choose online tutoring

When is online tutoring a good option? Depends how you want to use it.

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Do you need a touchscreen for online tutoring?

Taking a look at our usage data to see if a touchscreen is needed for a rich online tutoring experience.

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Is 93% of communication non-verbal?

To put it simply, no. We’ve heard this myth so often that it seems to have lodged itself in the collective psyche. Turns out it’s nonsense.

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PDF Import V2 — now supercharged

Earlier this week we released an update to PDF import. It's now faster, smoother and (almost) unlimited.

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Do you need an online whiteboard for online tutoring?

Online tutoring without an online whiteboard is like going to the cinema and sitting with your back to the screen: you're missing out on all the action.