For people who already run tutoring

You have the tutors. You have the students. You are missing the classroom.

Your lessons are almost certainly happening on a meeting app. It was built for a sales call, and it shows. This is a classroom instead — a shared board every student can write on — and you rent it by the hour. Your tutors stay yours, your students stay yours, and we never see either.

Mastery Tutors · Kampala · shared in confidence

What a meeting app cannot do

A video call shows faces. Teaching needs a surface — one both people can write on, at the same time, while talking about it. Screen-sharing a PDF is not that, and a tutor holding a page up to a webcam is not either.

Plan of a classroom seen from above: one lit screen on the front wall with a single teacher standing at it holding the pen, and twenty unlit desks whose occupants can only watch. — **A meeting app.**One person can write. Everyone else watches, and describes in words what they meant to draw.

Plan of the same classroom: the same screen at the front, the teacher among the desks rather than at the wall, and every desk lit with a smart device on it, each joined to the screen by a fine line. — **A classroom.**Every smart device is a pen on the same board — and the tutor can watch each one working, live.

	A meeting app	This
The shared surface	Your tutor's screen, read-only to the student	A board both write on, from any smart device
Seeing the working	You ask, and hope they answer	A private slate per student, all visible to the tutor at once
Checking the room	"Does everyone understand?" — silence	One tap, every answer, privately
Group work	Breakout rooms with no board in them	Groups that share a board and a conversation
Afterwards	Gone, unless somebody recorded it	The board is kept and replays itself
What it costs to run	Video, the whole hour, on their data	Voice and a board — a fraction of the same hour

That last row is not a feature, it is your running cost. Video is the most expensive thing on a Ugandan connection and the least useful part of a lesson. A tutor teaching on a board and their voice burns a fraction of what the same hour costs on a call — and it holds together on a connection that would drop a video meeting.

What your tutors get

A real board

Pages that turn for everyone, with lined, squared, graph and music-stave paper. Rough shapes snap true. Handwriting becomes clean text.

A slate each

Every student works privately while the tutor watches all of them live — and lifts any student's working onto the big board to discuss.

Working groups

Split a class into groups in one tap. Each group shares a board and its own conversation; the tutor hears every group at once and can step into any of them.

The mathematical set

Ruler, protractor, set squares, compass, number line and a function plotter — on the board itself, not described in words.

It survives the network

Lose your connection and the board keeps your work, then sends it when you come back. Nothing written is lost.

Any screen in the room

A TV or projector mirrors the board with a six-digit code, so an in-person group can use it too.

What stays yours

This is the part most platforms will not offer you.

Your tutors are not our tutors. We do not sign them up, interview them, rate them, or contact them. You will not find them listed anywhere on our side.
Your students are not in our records. The links are yours to give out; whoever opens one types a first name at the door. We hold no roster, no parent numbers, no register of who belongs to whom.
Your relationships and your rates. You bill your families your way. We never appear between you and them, and we take nothing per lesson.
Nothing to install, no accounts for children. A link opens in a browser. There is nothing for a parent to register for and nothing for a child to download.

How it works in practice

You get a room, and two kinds of link. One for whoever is teaching, one for the people learning. Send them however you already send things.
Links are yours to hand out. We do not ask who they are for, and we could not tell you afterwards.
You prepay for what you use. Buy board time up front and draw it down. No subscription running in the background, no invoice after the fact.
Start with a handful. Small batches to begin with; talk to us when you are running more than a few rooms at a time.

The rate card is one sentence: a price per student, per two-hour session, that falls as the class grows. You read it in full the moment you sign in — before any money moves, and before you open your first room.

What we do not do

Because the honest list is the one worth reading, and most of this is the direct cost of not holding your people.

We do not check your tutors. We do not know who they are. Whoever holds a teaching link is accountable to you — the person who gave it to them — and you are the adult we know. If that is not a responsibility you want, this is not for you.
We cannot give you named registers or reports. We can tell you a room ran and how long each seat was in it. We cannot tell you it was Amara, because we never knew.
We do not hold your money or invoice your families. That stays entirely yours.
Practice sets, marking and written lesson reports are not part of this. They belong to the tutoring service we run ourselves, which needs the student records this deliberately does not keep.
Recording is not switched on for group rooms. Nothing in the room is recorded.

Try it with one tutor

Verify your mobile number at tutors.cloud-fi.ug/managers, choose the name your families already know, and open your first room — it takes about two minutes. Use it for a week with one tutor and a real group before you decide anything; the room is more convincing in use than on a page.

Questions first? Call or WhatsApp +256 771 806 190 · +256 752 438 518

Or write to lessons@cloud-fi.ug.