Canceling Classes with VIPKid We get sick. Our family members and pets get sick. Things come up. So goes life, thus we need to take a day off from work. With VIPKid and many other online ESL jobs, this can pose a problem when our status [...]
How Should I Use Smart Sentences? FeedbackPanda’s smart sentence feature was created to give teachers the option to quickly insert frequently written words of advice to their students. How they are used varies from person to person, but they save time for all of us! Since [...]
Feeling Guilty About Saying NO? “You have to take the bad with the good.” How many times have you heard this mantra, and how often has it rung true? It’s certainly true with online teaching. For countless weeks, and sometimes months, we teachers do our best [...]
FeedbackPanda's New Analytics Feature Teachers love seeing the progress their students make, but they want to see their own progress too. You loved seeing the top three students who were booking with you, so we wanted to revamp this analytics tool to give you even more [...]
Meet Dragoș, FeedbackPanda's New Developer! Maintaining an SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) is no small feat, but we looked all over the world for the best. Luckily, we found him, and his name is Dragoș. He has already been hard at work, keeping our app pristine while building some [...]
Extending ESL Lessons for the Online Platform Every so often, we get a quick-witted student who finishes the lessons at the speed of light. Ending the lesson early is not an option. The parents pay good money for a certain amount of time, and we [...]
✈️ 8 Great Places for the Jet-Set ESL Teacher ✈️ FeedbackPanda Ping visits Jeju Island, South Korea. ESL teachers have been the newest population of laborers to take advantage of the job opportunities afforded by the internet. Not only did we want to escape the [...]
Taking Care of #1: YOURSELF! Teaching online ESL from the comfort of our homes is a dream job. Thus, we don't realize the insidious threat of burn-out. Teachers, no matter the institution, have one trait in common. They spend the better part of their [...]
How to Work Short Notice with VIPKid Find out how you can maximize your availability and make more money! In January of 2019, I decided to experiment with a new way of maximizing my availability with VIPKid by opening a large number of Short Notice (SN) [...]
FeedbackPanda Brings Teachers and Students Closer Together A solid foundation for an online ESL teacher is building strong relationships with the students. FeedbackPanda, like any CRM software, is built primarily for becoming more familiar with your clientele. CRM stands for customer relationship management, the keyword [...]
