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Reign for online tutors. Tutoring community and courseware.

Turn your tutoring into a small library plus a question space: worksheets and past papers become Learnomy lessons, the questions students email you become Jetonomy threads other students can find, and one-to-one sessions stay on your calendar. You answer once instead of every time. Reign gives the whole site a tidy, school-friendly look.

Tutors deliver lessons over Zoom and shared documents and charge by the hour, so income stops growing when the hours run out, there is no library of repeat content and every session is reinvented.

Reign + Learnomy builds a self-paced course library, live group Q&A and one-to-one booking. Learnomy installs free and sells memberships, so recurring income can start from the first student. LearnDash is the alternative for tutors already invested in it.

Course library, student feed and a Q&A space, free to install. You buy the Reign theme; Learnomy, BuddyNext and Jetonomy are ours and install free.

  • Learnomy courses
  • BuddyNext community engine
  • Jetonomy forums and q&a
Start with the free plugins Or the LearnMate LearnDash kit See the build recipe Have us set it up

Key takeaways for online tutors

  • The archive of answered questions is the asset. It only builds up if you answer in public rather than by email.
  • A membership for material and the question space serves students who cannot afford one-to-one hours.
  • Learnomy, BuddyNext and Jetonomy install free; see pricing for the flat theme licence.
  • Plan parent access early if you teach younger students, because retrofitting permissions is painful.

What it looks like on Reign

Screens from the live demos, with sample content. Open any of them and click around.

Three highlights for online tutors.

  • 01

    A self-paced course library that earns without tying up one-to-one hours.

  • 02

    Group Q&A kept for future students, so the archive grows over time.

  • 03

    One-to-one sessions sold through WP Sell Services (free to install), or a booking plugin such as Amelia when you need availability rules.

What the site looks like on day one.

Launch day gives you courses holding your material, a booking calendar for sessions, and a space where students ask questions between lessons. Worksheets are downloads, past papers are lessons, and the questions students email you become posts other students can find. For a tutor the immediate gain is the second one: you answer once instead of repeatedly.

What a member actually does.

A student books a first session, gets access to the relevant material, and initially treats the site as a place to download things. The change comes when they ask a question in the space and get an answer, from you or another student. Through an exam term the regulars are in there weekly, and the archive of answered questions becomes the resource that sells the next intake.

How this usually makes money.

Tutors typically charge per session through a booking plugin and add a monthly membership for material and the question space, which monetises the students who cannot afford one-to-one time. Group courses sell as one-off purchases. The membership tier is what lets a tutoring business grow past the number of hours in a week.

The mistake to avoid.

Using the site only as a file cabinet. Downloads alone do not keep students returning, and a tutor who never opens the question space is running a Dropbox folder with extra steps. The archive of answered questions is the asset; it only accumulates if somebody answers in public.

Which Reign setup fits a tutoring business

Reign is the WordPress theme for building a complete community site: social network, courses, member directory, marketplace and job board on one install. A tutor mostly needs courses and Q&A.

Learnomy holds courses, lessons, quizzes and certificates, and sells access with Stripe or PayPal checkout and memberships. Jetonomy supplies the Q&A: students ask in a space, you or another student answers, and the best answer is marked accepted. BuddyNext adds profiles and a feed if you want a class community around it. One-to-one sessions can be sold with WP Sell Services, which installs free, or booked through a scheduling plugin if you need availability rules.

If you already run LearnDash, the LearnMate LearnDash kit is the packaged route and the course community build guide walks through it. The plugins page shows free versus Pro, and the theme itself is a flat licence with no per-student fee.

Launch steps for a tutoring site

Start with the subject and level where you already get the most repeat questions. That is where the archive will pay back soonest.

  1. 01

    Install WordPress and Reign, then Learnomy and Jetonomy. The start page gives the order.

  2. 02

    Turn your best worksheets and past-paper walk-throughs into lessons, grouped by topic and exam board or syllabus.

  3. 03

    Create a question space per subject in Jetonomy and write a short guide on how to ask a good question, including attaching a photo of the working.

  4. 04

    Decide your membership: material only, material plus questions, or material plus a monthly group session. Set it up in Learnomy with checkout.

  5. 05

    Move your next ten emailed questions into the space, answering each one publicly with the student's permission.

  6. 06

    Tell current students where the answers live and ask them to check there first. Watch what they ask and write the lesson that is missing.

What students do on a tutoring site week to week

A student in exam term might visit three times a week. They open the unit they are revising, attempt the quiz, then get stuck on a question and post it in the space with a photo of their working. Another student sometimes answers before you do, and you confirm or correct.

Between sessions, students use the site as a reference. They search for a topic, find the thread where you explained it last month and save themselves a message. Over a term the regulars build a habit of checking the archive first, which is the behaviour that scales your time.

Your week is a mix of teaching, replying and cleaning. You mark answers as accepted, merge duplicates, link threads to lessons and note which topics keep generating questions. Those topics are your next lessons.

How a tutoring business grows

A tutor's income is capped by hours, so growth means selling something that does not need your hours. Group courses, a revision membership and recorded walk-throughs each serve many students for the cost of preparing them once. The question space makes the membership worth paying for because answers get better as the archive fills.

Search brings new students. A thread titled with a real question and a clear answer can rank for that question, and parents often find tutors this way. Write thread titles the way a student would type them.

If you want to grow beyond yourself, invite a few trusted tutors to answer in specific subjects and recognise them in the space. WP Sell Services lets other tutors list their own sessions if you want to run a small marketplace, though that is a bigger commitment and worth doing only after the library works.

Mistakes specific to tutoring sites

Using the site only as a file cabinet is the usual one. Downloads alone do not bring students back, and a tutor who never opens the question space is running a shared folder with extra steps. Answer in public from week one.

Another is mixing up scheduling and access. Booking one-to-one time and gaining access to recorded material are separate jobs. Keep them separate so a student can have one without the other.

Last, be careful with younger students. Decide who can see what, whether parents get their own login and how you handle recordings that include a child. Write it down and tell parents before the first session.

When a different setup fits better

If you teach only live and have no material, a booking page and a video link will do. Add the library once you notice yourself repeating the same explanations. If you teach a language, the language teachers page has a conversation-first structure that fits better than a Q&A archive.

If you want a marketplace of many tutors from day one, start from the services marketplace path instead, because that changes the commission, onboarding and vetting you need.

Online tutor-specific questions.

Should I use Outschool instead?

Outschool is a marketplace that can bring you your first students, but the platform holds the relationship. On Reign you bring students in through search, referrals and an email list, and you keep the relationship. Plenty of tutors use both.

Can students see their progress and scores?

Yes. The Learnomy student dashboard shows progress, scores and certificates, and with BuddyNext Pro the member profile shows Learning and Certifications panels. The Reign LearnDash Addon does the same for LearnDash sites.

What about live class video?

Embed the meeting link in a Learnomy lesson or an Eventonomy event, then upload the recording back to the lesson afterwards.

Can parents have their own access?

Yes, with a separate role or membership level that sees progress and scheduling but not the student's question history. Decide this early, because retrofitting parent access onto a site built only for students means revisiting every permission you set.

How do I handle scheduling and payment together?

A booking plugin handles availability and takes payment at the time of booking, while the membership plugin covers the recurring material access. They are separate jobs and it is cleaner to keep them separate rather than forcing one plugin to do both.

Can I sell recordings of past sessions?

Yes, as a course or individual purchases, and it is a sensible way to earn from work already done. Be clear with students about what is recorded before you record it, particularly with younger students where parental consent matters.

How do I handle exam-season demand?

Group courses and the question space absorb demand that one-to-one hours cannot. Most tutors find the membership tier becomes their exam-term income, because it serves students who would otherwise be turned away.

Buy the theme. Add the plugins free.

Learnomy, BuddyNext and Jetonomy cost nothing to install, and each has its own Pro plan for later. Running the third-party stack instead? The LearnMate LearnDash kit is the packaged route. Or have the Wbcom team set either one up for you.

See the free plugins See the LearnMate LearnDash kit Have us set it up

One theme, the whole site

See what you can build with Reign, then try it.

Reign is the WordPress theme for building a complete community site: social network, courses, member directory, marketplace and job board on one install. Start with one, add the others when you need them, and keep one login for every member. Open a live demo, or launch a sandbox and get a fresh WordPress site to click through in about a minute.

Add more when you need it

Not sure which setup fits your site?

Tell us what you want members to do on your site. We will tell you which Reign setup, plugins and kit fit, before you buy anything.

Ask us before you buy Email support@wbcomdesigns.com

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