Halgo for online tutors
Teaching online removes the one thing an in-person tutor never thinks about: the surface. No table, no paper between you, nothing to point at. Most of what is awkward about online lessons follows from that.
The board is the classroom, not a slide deck
Screen-sharing a PDF works until the student needs to write on it, and then it stops working: they cannot reach it, you narrate instead of showing, and the lesson turns into a lecture with a webcam. A shared canvas both people can move things on is the difference between demonstrating and telling.
Halgo gives each student a board that persists between lessons. What you drew on Tuesday is still there on Thursday, which is closer to a shared exercise book than to a call.
Nothing has to be handed over
In-person tutoring ends with paper changing hands. Online it ends with a promise to email something, and the promise is where the practice quietly stops: the sheet gets sent late, or not at all, and the student's week passes.
When the homework is built on the same board the lesson happened on, there is nothing to send. The student opens the link they already have and the work is there, next to the exercise it came from.
Time zones and no-shows are the online tax
An online roster spreads across time zones, and a booking written in the wrong one is a lesson lost for both people. Two-way calendar sync means the week lives in the calendar you already trust rather than in a second copy that drifts.
No-shows are also more common online, because not turning up costs the student nothing physically. That makes a stated cancellation policy more load-bearing than it is for in-person teaching, and it makes a visible running balance the thing that ends the arguments before they start.
What you still need elsewhere
Halgo is not a video platform. It links the lesson to the call you already use — Zoom or Google Meet — because replacing a video provider well is a company's worth of work and doing it badly is worse than not doing it.
The board runs in a browser on a laptop or a tablet. There is no native app, which is worth knowing if your students are phone-only.
Questions tutors ask
Do students need an account?
No. A student opens a link — no password, no signup — and sees their own board and what has been set. That is deliberate: an account is a barrier between a fourteen-year-old and their homework.
Does it replace Zoom?
No. The call stays where it is; Halgo attaches the lesson link to the lesson so nobody is pasting it before every session. Zoom and Google Meet are both supported.
Can two people draw at the same time?
The board is shared and both sides can move things on it. It is built for a tutor and one student rather than for a class of thirty, which is what keeps it simple enough to use while also teaching.
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