Chegg Tutors Review: My Honest Review Of CheggTutors (InstaEDU)

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Following is a detailed Chegg Tutors review, where I’ll explain why Chegg Tutors (aka InstaEDU) is the best place to tutor online and earn money through PayPal at the rate of $20/hr. The tutoring site was previously called InstaEDU before Chegg rebranded it as Chegg Tutors.

Chegg Tutors (aka InstaEDU) is an online tutoring platform that matches students who require academic help with tutors. I will briefly discuss the great things about Chegg Tutors and how to be a successful tutor on it. My advice mainly covers how to get and retain students. If you are going to enjoy the service, you will actually make great money with it.

Sign up as a Tutor on Chegg Tutors (aka InstaEDU)

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How much can I earn with Chegg Tutors?

Chegg Tutors pays $20/hr, prorated to the minute, which is quite nice. You get what you invest! They send payments to your PayPal account each Friday. There are no minimum cashout amount. It has almost been a year and I haven’t heard anyone having issues with their payment processing.

Under the payments section, you can update the Paypal email ID where you want Chegg to send your weekly earnings.

Chegg Tutors Paypal payment setup

The payments are dispatched on Fridays. For reference, this is what an email from Paypal might look like when you get paid by Chegg Tutoring.

Chegg Tutors Payment

Sometimes when the traffic is higher, for instance, during final exam and midterm seasons, Chegg pays higher to tutors. Keep an eye out for the following notification:

Chegg Tutors $30 per hour

Things I like about Chegg Tutors/InstaEDU:

Tutoring with Chegg is a great job especially during school because it allows you to set your hours and work as much or as little as you would like. Getting students will be slow at first, but once you get a few students and get some good reviews going, things WILL start picking up.

Chegg Tutors also provides a well-built lesson space. The audio and video features that are built into the lesson space are great teaching tools. Audio is essential for a productive lesson. Text itself will not cut it. Video is not as essential, but it gives the student another way to connect with you and make it more personal. Make use of the tools that Chegg Tutors gives you like the text editors and the new code editor. You can go into a “mock lesson” just to play around with those tools before working with your student.

Being a successful tutor on Chegg Tutors/InstaEDU:

Money is made in tutoring by being able to teach students. Even if you’re new to tutoring online, you likely already have that skill or the aptitude to develop it. The other part of making money is treating your work as a business and shaping the service you provide to match what your students need.

You can split your students essentially into two different groups: the ones that are looking for a question to a problem and then will be done with the service (or use it sporadically), or the ones that want to continually meet with you throughout the semester (or even across multiple courses). Both groups can be very profitable for you and both groups have different needs and require different things from you.

Students in general will stick with a tutor if that tutor is able to teach them effectively, and getting them to stick around is how you turn that original $20 they give you into a couple hundred dollars. At the rates they pay, it’s a huge risk to “shop around” as you could find someone you like less than the one you’ve found that you do like. Any shopping around comes from the fact that they weren’t satisfied with the tutor and they are looking for a better one. I’ve had students work with me for multiple different courses so far including those who wanted to meet for 1-2 hours a week for the semester. That money adds up real fast.

Getting yourself a base of students who routinely come back to you is what I found to be the most profitable and you do that by excelling at teaching the students in the first group.  That again is done just by knowing what’s tricky in your field, and then excelling at explaining those concepts.

Chegg Tutors InstaEDU tutoring opportunity

You’ll see such information bars on your profile whenever there are tutoring opportunities related to your field.

InstaEDU

In addition to the information bars on profile, a small chat pop-up also appears on the right side bar. Make sure to act soon before someone else grabs it.

 

Most lessons are set up when students send message to tutor (you). Be on top of your messages!! For students in group one, the fastest response typically gets the student. For those in group two it’s pretty much the same.

Messages have one added benefit over on-demand and that benefit is that you can talk to the student about the problem. If you don’t know how to solve it, don’t take the lesson. Stick with what you know, and maybe some things slightly outside of that area, but don’t ever take a shot in the dark. That is a waste of your time and the student’s. Sure, you might make $20 or so off the lesson, but you also could be missing out on working with that one student who could eventually stick with you for longer time.

Quick Notes on Chegg Tutors:

  • Anybody from any country can signup on Chegg Tutors. The pay is the same $20/hour. Chegg Tutors is global, which means you can sign up regardless of whether you are a US citizen or not.
  • You have to use your Facebook account while signing up on Chegg Tutors. Your account isn’t required to be as professional as LinkedIn, but it helps if you put up a friendly profile picture and your real name. Later, you’ll be added to the secret Facebook Group where other tutors pass opportunities to you when they are busy.
  • You’ll also need to verify that you are a college student, or graduate, or alumni, or at least have some education. For this, you will be asked for a scanned copy of your diploma. An email sent from your .EDU email will also suffice. It really doesn’t matter which college you go to or graduated from… If you are willing to tutor, you are welcome!
  • There is nothing to lose. Signup, try the opportunities, make some money. If this is not your thing, move on. But if you happen to like Chegg Tutors, it will be a bonus on your resume, and a bonus for your monthly earnings!

If you’re ready to start: Sign up as a Tutor.

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That’s it! I hope this CheggTutors review was helpful. Tutoring is a great venture and CheggTutors is a great place to do it. If you have any comments, leave them down below.

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