FSCJ Library & Tutoring Services Annual Review 2022-2023

FSCJ uses an online tutoring service called Brainfuse. Professional tutors who are employed by Brainfuse provide synchronous and asynchronous online tutoring support. In addition to this direct tutoring support, students have unlimited access to a number of academic tools that they may use independently. Below is a brief description of the tutoring options provided by Brainfuse's tutors and the system's academic tools.

There is a system feature in Brainfuse called Tutor Match that allows us to integrate institutional tutors into the online tutoring platform.  Tutor Match online tutoring sessions provided by FSCJ's tutors are documented on the page titled "Tutoring Provided by FSCJ's Tutors."

Brainfuse has a mobile app that students may use to access the system. It is available for both android devices and iPhones.

Brainfuse has a system feature called the Faculty Dashboard that allows faculty to refer students to online tutoring by assigning online tutoring tasks to their students. The Faculty Dashboard allows a faculty member to monitor students' completion of these assigned tasks. 

The data below represent the Live Help and Writing Lab tutoring services provided by Brainfuse's professional tutors. 

The table below highlights students' usage of Brainfuse's database by indicating the percentage of usage for the noted system features. 

Because the starting and ending dates for semesters can vary from year to year, for sake of reporting consistency, in these datasets the academic semesters are defined as follows:

Fall Term: September through December

Spring Term: January through April

Summer Term: May through August

The table below indicates the total number of Brainfuse online tutoring sessions (duplicated headcount) provided by Brainfuse's professional tutors that were executed during each academic semester.

The table below indicates the percentage of enrolled students (unduplicated headcount) who used the tutoring services provided by Brainfuse's professional tutors during each academic semester.

*EAB Navigate is the source for enrollment data.  Fall 2022 (N=15,254); Spring 2023 (N=18,858); Summer 2023 (N=12,961).

Students from 118 distinct academic programs used Brainfuse's tutoring services during the 2022-2023 academic year. The table below identifies the top 5 programs of study for tutoring users (unduplicated headcount). 

Brainfuse uses broad subject categories to categorize tutoring sessions facilitated by their professional tutors. Live Help is the synchronous online tutoring option. The table below indicates the top 10 subject areas in which Brainfuse's tutors provided Live Help support.