Private tutors work with students across different schools, grade levels, and tech comfort levels. Collecting work from each student should be consistent and simple.

The tutor's challenge

You tutor 10 students. Each uses a different email provider, some are on their parent's phone, and one writes homework by hand and needs to photograph it. Email becomes a mess of different thread formats and attachment styles.

The simplest approach:

  1. Create an upload page: "Maria — Math Homework Week 3"
  2. Send the link to Maria (or her parents)
  3. Maria uploads her work
  4. You download and review before the next session

For ongoing work, create a single upload page per student:

Students upload all their work to the same link throughout the tutoring engagement. Set the expiration to 10 days, and before it expires, download everything and create a new link.

For photographed homework

Many younger students (or students doing math by hand) need to photograph their work. An upload link handles this perfectly — they take photos with their phone and upload directly from the camera roll. No compression, no blurry email attachments.

Parent involvement

For younger students, you're often communicating with parents, not the student directly. Share the upload link with parents and explain: "Have [student name] photograph their completed worksheet and upload it here before our Thursday session."

Keeping organized

Create a simple folder structure on your computer:

/Students
  /Alex
    /Week1
    /Week2
  /Maria
    /Week1
    /Week2

Download each student's ZIP into the corresponding week folder.