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"Your Campus In The Cloud"

U Personal combines a unique online learning system with an open marketplace that brings you the best place to tutor and learn online. Whether you're looking to tutor, learn or both* U Personal is the place to do it.
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  • Learn about vocational skills, new hobbies and academic subjects
  • Learn successfully according to your Personal Learning Principles
  • Chat and discuss with other students doing the same course
  • Build a name for yourself as a tutor in your expert field
  • Earn a bit on the side by tutoring what you know

How It Works

Unique


  • Comprehensive Online Learning
  • User-friendly Course Creation Tool
  • Flexible & Diverse Lesson Options
  • Tutor & Learn All In One Place

Aware


  • Personal Interests
  • Personal Learning Principles
  • Personal Tutoring Principles
  • Post Study Recapping

Adaptive


  • Peer Driven Quality
  • Autonomous Suggested Directions
  • Individual Learning; Communal Environment
  • Social Integration

Comprehensive Online Learning


Uploads, downloads, emails, post...no more! Our system here on Strabo 1.0 is 100% online. All the content for the courses you create, and all the evaluation of the courses you study is online.

Our comprehensive learning system makes learning much easier and allows tutors to create really flexible and diverse courses.


User-friendly Course Creation Tool



Learning Management Systems (LMS) can be complex and confusing for both tutors and students. It's time to wave the web 2.0 magic wand at LMSs and that's exactly what we've done.

A user-friendly interface for creating courses with tips and guides to walk you through and help you where needed, makes creating courses on a breeze…literally.

Flexible & Diverse Lesson Options


Lessons on Strabo 1.0 are powerful and flexible. Decide on your content and upload it or embed it from sites like Vimeo and Youtube.

Add an introduction to prepare students, and then develop your evaluation method from written assignments to keyword-matching to multiple-choice quizzes.

Set some controls including a required pass grade, a time limit, the number of questions in your quizzes and many more, to design the most suitable interaction for the content you've added.





Tutor & Learn All In One Place


We all have knowledge and we always want more. Whether you're looking to jumpstart your life with a new hobby such as hiking or you want to brush up on your physics for an upcoming exam you can find those kinds of courses here on .

We offer an open marketplace because the knowledge you have about hiking might just be what a physics teacher overseas is looking for.

Build courses about topics you know and study courses about topics you like all in one place.


Personal Interests



With so much knowledge available in the world today it's often difficult to find good tutorials about our interests. We understand your time is precious and you want to make the most of it so we've made it really simple.

Tell us what you're interested in and we'll do all the hard work by searching our extensive database of courses and serving the most suitable to you.

Add to this some regular notifications of new courses that match your interests and you've got a well-rounded system for finding exactly what you want without all the hassle.

Personal Learning Principles


Have you ever felt held back in a class, or dragged forward before you're ready? Not understanding what the teacher is saying but a diagram solves your problem? Can answer all the questions but can't write an essay to explain it?

We all learn best in different ways and what suits you doesn't suit others. On we save all of your scores, mix them all up and serve them back to you in an easy to understand way.

You can learn about how you learn best and we can use this information to analyse potential new courses and suggest which ones would suit your learning style.


Personal Tutoring Principles



While being a tutor on isn't going to make you a millionaire it could certainly cover some costs if you're an enthusiastic tutor.

As with our entire service we like to help and make things easier, so we've put together a system that analyses the courses you've created to bring together your Personal Tutoring Principles.

What areas you specialise in, what types of content and lesson evaluation you get the best feedback and ratings for and so much more helps match you to suitable students.

Hints, tips and suggestions can help you tweak and tune your courses.

Post Study Recapping


Ever heard the phrase "Use it or lose it"? You might remember a foreign language teacher telling you this although it's relevant for everything that we learn. At we know it's pretty difficult to try and remember everything you learn, but that shouldn't stop you.

Our unique Post-Study-Recap(PSR) system makes this a snap. At regular intervals throughout your time with us we offer you the opportunity to recap on things you've learnt before.

In a nutshell, we find the courses you were learning two or three months ago and put together a quiz based on your results to see how much you've remembered.

Peer Driven Quality


What determines the quality of a tutor and a course? We think it's the feedback from students who have successfully completed that course.

Improving your courses based on feedback from the students doing them is the best way to improve quality ratings. Getting good quality ratings will rank your courses higher than competing courses on the same topics.

As a student, course quality ratings can be very useful in deciding which course to study.


Autonomous Suggested Directions



How would you like to hire a study advisor to analyse your learning progress and tell you about it, find courses that suit your needs, send you messages when something interesting comes up, build review quizzes and tasks for things you've already learnt to help you remember them and just be a general all-round nice guy?

Save your cash; at it's all done for you. As a student (and a tutor as well) we send out periodic personal roundups of your progress.

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Individual Learning; Communal Environment


Learning at your own speed and in your own way is important, but peer interaction can also be crucial to our success, so we don't want to be learning hermits!

So we've build a specialised eCommonRoom system to give students (and tutors) a place to chat and discuss the topics they are studying. Create an eCommonRoom and link your courses to it.

Discussion boards, chatrooms, polls, wikis and much more give your students the support they need to pass your courses.

Coming Soon…


Social Integration





Who would we be if we didn't try to integrate with all of your favourite social media networks, right?

And what better way to tell everyone what you're tutoring in and what you're learning than by syncing with Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn et al.

This also saves you having to fill in yet another profile as we can pull all your info across in a snap.

Coming Soon...

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