Academic Support

You get home after a long day of classes and suddenly realize you forgot to stop by the Academic Support Center (ASC) for some tutoring help with a question on your English paper.

What can you do?

Or maybe you spent your afternoon in the ASC and understood your math homework when you left; but when you went back to work on it again, it just wasn’t clicking.

Don’t fret, the ASC – A TUTOR system is here to help. Simply send your question to ascatutor@pstcc.edu and one of our tutoring staffers will do his/her best to get back to you in a timely manner!

Our tutors in the ASC will do their best to try to respond to your question within 24 hours Monday through Friday. Weekends the response time may be longer.

SMARTHINKING

Students connect to live tutors from any computer that has Internet access. SMARTHINKING is a virtual learning assistance center providing online tutoring 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. SMARTHINKING also offers an online writing lab where E-structor Certified tutors critique and return essays within 24 hours. You will need to log into myPellissippi in order to access online tutoring. Once logged in, select the Academics tab. If it is your first time using SMARTHINKING, you will need to create an account. If you already have a SMARTHINKING account, you can sign-in to access the service.

The Academic Support Center is your Success Connection for academic assistance (tutoring) and information!

Each college campus has an Academic Support Center, which offers a variety of free services.

Tutoring is a free service offered to all Pellissippi State Students in our center is provided by PSCC faculty and professional tutors in math (all levels), writing, biology, foreign language, statics, computer science, chemistry, Administrative Professional Technology, and more. All students can use the tutoring services. No appointment is needed.

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Whether you need help with a single question, a few problems, a whole chapter, or the entire course?

Writing Center provides tutoring in all English classes, reviews writing assignments from other classes, and assists with study skills. Free information sheets to help you with the mechanics of writing and understanding sentence structure, such as subject-verb agreement, documentation, and more are available.

Computer Access: The Academic support Center has a small computer lab with thirteen computers loaded with Microsoft Office and instructional software used in classes that students can use for their studies. Students may prefer to use these computers when the open computer labs are full.

Just looking for a place where you can spread your books out and have a little quiet time or meet with a study group to prepare for a test? Come to the Academic support Center. We have tables for students to use and couches if you prefer more a comfy area. We also have computers for students to use for class work.

Drop in and meet the staff. We serve all students and we look forward to serving you! Sites may differ in their hours of operation and offerings.

How To Make The Most Of Tutoring Services:

Come to see a tutor when:

You need help in completing homework questions or problems;

You want assistance in understanding concepts or discussing ideas;
You want to know more about study strategies and preparing for tests;
You believe you are beginning to fall behind and want some help.

Prepare for a tutoring session by bringing

Textbooks
Class notes
Past quizzes or tests that your instructor has authorized you to have;
Course syllabus;
Homework or workbook problems (indicate what you have been able to complete yourself since tutors cannot go over every problem in every assignment).

Remember that tutors cannot:

Do homework or assignments for students;
Make up for missed classes or assignments or for missing prerequisite courses;
Take tests (including take-home or make-up tests for students);
Provide line-by-line correcting, editing, proofreading, or translating for students;
Teach new material not included in the coursework;