ODU Main Campus students have access to free tutoring, both in-person and online. Please review on-campus tutoring resources listed below and click here for subjects supported through ODU's online tutoring partnership with BrainFuse. You can access BrainFuse within any of your Canvas courses, selecting the tutoring support of your choosing through the BrainFuse platform. For any questions or additional support, please email academicsuccess@odu.edu.
Graduate Students: Your course professors are your first point of contact for assistance with tutoring support.
Tutoring Resources
Science Tutoring Centers: Chemistry Success Center (tutoring offerings for Chemistry subjects)
ePortfolios encourage learners to reflect on and synthesize their learning experiences and provide a platform for sharing that information easily with authentic audiences. As such an ePortfolio showcases the user's unique identity, offering both a pedagogical tool for archiving and reflection and a professional tool for showcasing marketable skills.
The Language Learning Center serves the needs of faculty, students, and the Hampton Roads community in promoting the study of world languages through the use of technology enhanced methods and materials.
The Science Tutoring Centers (STC) offer free tutoring resources for specific courses in the College of Sciences.
The learning center provides a central location where students can work in cooperative groups and get assistance with physics homework from volunteer faculty members and graduate students.
The Writing Center provides supplemental instruction to help students improve their writing strategies.
| Subject |
Location |
Days & Hours |
Website or Contact Information for Additional Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish | The Language Learning Center, Batten Arts & Letters (BAL), Room 3061 | Monday - Tuesday, 9am - 7pm, Wednesday - Thursday, 9am - 5pm, Fridays 9am - 3pm. Individual appointments available - please see website. | /languagelearningcenter |
| Biology | Perry Learning Commons, Room 1305 | Monday - Thursday, 10am - 5pm | /science-tutoring-centers/biology |
| Chemistry | Chemistry Success Center, Chemistry Building, Room 1006 | Monday and Friday, 10am - 5pm, and Tuesday - Thursday, 10am - 6pm | /science-tutoring-centers/chemistry |
| Computer Sciences | Monarch Hall, Room 2123 | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, 10am - 6pm and Thursday from 10am - 5pm | /science-tutoring-centers/computer-science |
| Electrical and Computer Engineering | TBD | TBD | TBA |
| ePortfolio (Google Drive, Google Sites, Wix, Wordpress, and multimedia elements for ePortfolios) | Perry Library, Room 1308A | Monday and Wednesday 10am - 6pm, Tuesday 9am - 8:30pm, Thursday 10am - 8:30pm, Friday 9am - 4pm, Saturday and Sunday online - please see website | /ails/eportfolio/student-resources |
| Mechanical Engineering | Kaufman Hall, Room 259 | Monday - Thursday, 10am - 3pm | odumaetutoring@gmail.com |
| Math & Statistics | Visual Arts Building (VAB), Room 1011 - For MATH 101M, 102M, 103M, 162M | Monday - Thursday, 11am - 7pm, Fridays 11am - 2pm. Zoom available Wednesday 7pm - 9pm, Friday 2pm - 5pm | /math/help |
| Math & Statistics | Visual Arts Building (VAB), Calculus Lab Room 2016 - For MATH 163, 166, 211, 212, 312 | Monday - Friday, 9am - 7pm. Zoom and some evening hours available - please see website. | /math/help |
| Math & Statistics | Visual Arts Building (VAB), Statistics Lab Room 2022 - For STAT 130M, 310, 330 | Monday and Wednesday 12pm - 5pm, Tuesday and Thursday 2pm - 7pm, Wednesdays 12pm - 5pm, and Fridays 10am - 3pm. Evening Zoom hours available - please see website. | /math/help |
| Math & Statistics | Visual Arts Building (VAB), Applied Calc Lab Room 1008 - For MATH 200, 205 | Monday, Wednesday from 11am - 6pm, Tuesday, Thursday from 11am - 3pm. Zoom on Wednesdays from 7pm - 9pm, Fridays 2pm - 5pm. | /math/help |
| Oceanography | Oceanography & Physical Sciences, Room 214 | TBD | /science-tutoring-centers/ocean-earth |
| Physics | Oceanography & Physical Sciences, Room 214 | Monday - Friday, hours vary. Please see website. | /physics/students/learning-center |
| Psychology | Perry Learning Commons, Room 1305 | Monday - Thursday, 10am - 5pm | /science-tutoring-centers/psychology |
| Writing Center | Perry Library, Room 1313 | Monday 10am - 12pm, 1pm - 8pm, Tuesday and Wednesday 10am - 8pm, Thursday 10am - 4pm and 4pm -8pm online, Friday 10am - 3pm, Saturday 10am - 6pm online, Sunday 10am - 8pm online | /al/centers/writing-center |
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