Tutor Profiles & Favorites
Read a tutor's profile, browse the Tuitionable subject catalog and request a subject, and save tutors to your wishlist — including across guest browsers.
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Overview
This page is for students who want to evaluate a tutor before booking and keep a shortlist of the ones they like. It covers three connected features in Tuitionable:
- Reading a tutor profile — bio, subjects, rates, recognition badges, reviews, and a live 7-day availability snapshot.
- Browsing the subject catalog — exploring the category directory, filtering into a subject, and requesting one that isn't listed yet.
- Saving tutors to your wishlist — a heart you can tap on any profile, with your picks synced to your account — or held in your browser if you're not signed in yet.
Booking profiling This page explains how to read a profile and save a tutor. For the booking flow itself — choosing a slot and checkout — see Booking a Session.
Reading a tutor profile
A tutor profile is organized into tabbed sections. Only the tabs a tutor has actually filled in appear — for example, the Packages and FAQ tabs show only when that tutor has published packages or answered FAQs.
| Tab | What you'll find |
|---|---|
| About | The tutor's biography, written in their own words, plus an embedded intro video when one is provided (YouTube or Vimeo embed, otherwise a link). |
| Experience | Education history, certifications, and professional experience entries the tutor has added. |
| Subjects & skills | The subjects this tutor teaches. The header also shows the top subjects as pills, with a “+ more” button when there are more than five. |
| Reviews | The rating breakdown and the most recent reviews left by students who completed a session (see below). |
| Availability | A live 7-day availability snapshot showing free slots per day for the selected session type. |
| Pricing | Hourly rate, the first-lesson guarantee flag, and any multi-session packages. |
Rates and recognition badges
The header and the Pricing tab show three headline figures:
- Hourly rate — the price per hour. When the tutor is running an offer, the discounted price is shown alongside an offer badge.
- First-lesson guarantee — a
Yes/Noflag indicating whether the tutor provide Money-Back Guarantee on first lesson.
Badges are recognition labels the platform awards to tutors who meet performance criteria — for example Super Tutor, Top Rated, Rising Star, Veteran Tutor, and Student Favorite. They appear as small pills under the tutor's name on the profile and on your saved-tutor cards. Hover a badge to see what it represents.
Avatars are always either the tutor's uploaded photo or a colored initials tile — never a stock image. A missing or broken photo simply falls back to the tutor's initials.
Reviews and ratings
The Reviews tab summarizes the tutor's rating distribution and lists up to the six most recent reviews that include a written comment. The overall star rating and review count shown across Tuitionable reflect approved reviews only. If a tutor has no reviews yet, the section shows a friendly “No reviews yet” placeholder rather than filler. For how reviews are written, edited, and moderated, see Reviews & Ratings.
The 7-day availability snapshot
The Availability panel builds a rolling 7-day view starting today. Each day card shows how many slots are free and the time of the next free slot for the selected session type. The panel refreshes roughly every 30 seconds so the “Live” times stay current.
For signed-in students, the snapshot also accounts for your own existing bookings, you can't book if you already had a booking. If a tutor hasn't published a recurring schedule, the panel invites you to message them to arrange a time instead.
Browsing the subject catalog
The subject directory at /subject is a browsable catalog of everything you can learn on Tuitionable. Subjects are grouped into top-level categories — such as Languages, Primary, and Secondary — each containing individual subjects.
- The page opens with a Most-booked this month strip highlighting popular subjects.
- Below that, each category lists its subjects as a grid. Every subject shows a live tutor count, and subjects with a strong roster get a Popular tag.
- A search box at the top lets you jump straight to the tutor listing for a typed query.
Clicking a subject takes you to the filtered tutor listing for that subject (/tutors?subject_id=...). The tutor count shown on each card is calculated with the same matching logic the listing uses, so the number on the card and the results you land on stay in agreement — including related subject names (for example, “Math” and “Mathematics” are counted together).
Requesting a subject
If you can't find the subject you need, the bottom of the directory has a Request a subject form. It's open to both guests and signed-in students, and it routes your request to the team so they can try to find a matching tutor.
| Field | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|
subject_name | Yes | 2–120 characters — name the subject you want. |
email | Conditional | Optional if you're signed in (your account email is used). Required if you're a guest, so the team can reach you. |
details | No | Up to 1000 characters — level, exam, language, or schedule notes. |
When you submit, the page confirms with a “Request received” message and Tuitionable sends a confirmation email to the address on file.
Niche requests are worth submitting. Tuitionable encourages unusual subjects to be submitted and review carefully, and a confirmation email is queued automatically once your request is logged.
Saving tutors to your wishlist
Every tutor profile has a heart-shaped Save / Wishlist button in the actions row beneath the cover. Tap it to add the tutor to your wishlist; tap it again to remove them. A filled heart means the tutor is saved.
The same heart appears on your Wishlist page at /wishlist, reachable from the navigation. Each saved tutor renders as a card with their name, photo or initials, primary subject, star rating, years of experience, hourly rate, badges, and a short bio — with a one-tap link straight to their profile.
When you're signed in, toggling the heart button on the header and it will automatically retrieves your favourite tutor in your account.
Wishlists across guest browsers
You don't need an account to start a wishlist. If you save tutors before signing in, Tuitionable stores your picks in your browser's local storage on that device, so the Wishlist page still shows them.
- As a guest, the Wishlist page reads your saved IDs from the browser and fetches each tutor's card via a public lookup, which returns only approved tutors.
- When you sign in, any tutors you saved as a guest are automatically merged into your account. The merge is idempotent — running it again with the same tutors does nothing — and duplicates or tutors that no longer exist are filtered out.
- After the merge, your account-based wishlist becomes the source of truth and follows you to any device you sign in on.
A guest wishlist lives in one browser on one device. Clearing your browser data, or switching to a different browser or device, will lose unsynced guest picks. To keep your wishlist permanently and across devices, sign in so it merges into your account.
Tips & troubleshooting
| Symptom | What to check |
|---|---|
| Saved tutors disappeared after switching devices | Guest wishlists are per-browser. Sign in on the device that has them so they merge into your account, then they'll appear everywhere. |
| The Availability panel says “no schedule yet” | The tutor hasn't published a recurring schedule. Use the message button on their profile to arrange a time directly. |
| A subject card's count doesn't match the listing | Counts include closely related subject names and only bookable tutors. If a tutor's bookable status changed after the page loaded, refresh to recompute. |
| “You've sent a few already” when requesting a subject | You've hit the limit of 5 subject requests per hour from your network. Wait an hour and try again. |
| A saved tutor no longer appears on your wishlist | Tutors must be approved to render on the wishlist. If a tutor was unpublished, their card is hidden until they're approved again. |
Related pages
- Finding a Tutor — search, filters, and sorting to discover the right tutor.
- AI Tutor Matching — the matching questionnaire that ranks tutors by fit.
- Booking a Session — turn a profile you like into a confirmed session.
- Reviews & Ratings — how the ratings on profiles are written and moderated.