Text Tutor
Learn Vocabulary using your cell phone
Welcome to Text Tutor . Now that you have signed up up to receive Text Tutor service, get ready to learn!
I've signed up up for TexTutor, now what?
Very soon after your signup, you will receive an email containing your account information. Make sure that you include TexTutor.com in your contact list so that your spam filter does not block emails from Text Tutor . If you did not receive this email, you may request that your password be sent to your phone. Just click on "MY ACCOUNT" then "I forgot my password."
Get words!
Within 24 hours of signup, you will receive your first text message from Text Tutor . This message will contain a vocabulary word & definition. Later that same day, you will receive a message containing a sentence using the word. This will repeat every day. If you signed up for 2 or 3 words/day, then you will receive those definitions and sentences during the day also.
Your definition might look like this:
Hello, I have a new word for you: insidious [in-sid-ee-uhs]: somewhat cunning or deceitful; treacherous; wily Enjoy! - Tex Tutor
Your Sample Sentence may look like this:
Hello, Here is a sample sentence for insidious: Jodie's insidious manipulation of events made the truth hard to obtain. -Tex Tutor
Study!
TextTutor will let you have about a day to learn your words, then you will receive a message containing a quiz. That message might look like this:
Hello, Please reply with the correct choice: insidious 1 - clearly visible; easy to be seen 2 - somewhat cunning or deceitful 3 - flammable 4 - characterized or resulting from much sitting
Review the options and note the number or letter of correct choice. Let's say that you decide that choice #2 is correct for the example above. Choose reply on your phone to send a message to the number that sent you the quiz. In the text for the message, simply type the option. So your text message would look like this:
2
If your phone or your carrier adds a signature to the message, don't worry, Tex will ignore it. Just make sure that your answer is the first item in the message. It is very important that you reply to the same number that sent the quiz. Tex Tutor uses several different numbers to send messages and you must reply to the number that sent the quiz. Also, you must send the response from your phone number.
If you get the question right, Text Tutor will send a reply message to you within a few minutes that might look something like this:
That's Right! insidious - somewhat cunning or deceitful
Let's say that you respond to this quiz with a 3 (which is wrong). Then Text Tutor will respond like this:
Sorry, the correct definition of insidious is: somewhat cunning or deceitful. I'll quiz you again on this later. Tex Tutor
A few days later, you will be given another chance with any word that you missed.
Once you reply to a quiz, consider deleting it from your inbox, or move it to another folder. That way, you won't forget and reply to it again later. Text Tutor will re-use the same option letters, so if you respond to a quiz twice, Text Tutor may take the second response as an incorrect response to another quiz. If you accidentally send a message to Text Tutor that doesn't start with a valid response, then Text Tutor will send you message like this:
Sorry, but that is not a valid response. Maybe you already replied to this quiz.
TextTutor Commands
At any time, you may reply to a Text Tutor message with a single word to request more information. Currently, Text Tutor understands help, quiz, and score.
If you send help to TexTutor, he will reply with a brief list of commands that you can send.
help
Text a command to TexTutor score - current score quiz - send up to 7 unanswered quizzes
If you send quiz to TexTutor, he will re-send quizzes that you have not answered. This can be helpful if you don't always answer a quiz right when you get it or if the message got lost or deleted. Tex will only send 7 at a time, so if you have a lot, you will need to answer some of your quizzes before texting quiz again.
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If you are wondering how you are doing with your answers, just reply to any Text Tutor message with the word score. Tex will send you a text message containing your current score. You get 10 points for each quiz you get right the first time. If you missed it the first time, but got it right later, you get 5 points. Your score is a percentage of your points to possible points. If you have unanswered quizzes, they don't count for or agains you.
Limitations of Text Messages
The nature of text messages and the way that they are handled by cellular carriers make them somewhat unreliable. Occasionally, Text Tutor might send you a message, but you never receive it, or you receive it several hours or even days later. Likewise, you might reply to a quiz, but the message gets lost. Text Tutor realizes that this is possible and wants to make sure that you receive full value for your experience. When reviewing your Progress Report, you may notice that Text Tutor recorded a word, but you never received the definition or sentence or quiz. Just click "resend" in the progress report and all the messages related to that word will be resent to you in addition to your regular messages.
What About my Account?
Click on "MY ACCOUNT" above. Login by providing your cell number and password. If you forgot your password, just click "I forgot my password" and we will text it to your phone. Once you have logged in, you can change your name, address, phone number, email addresses, and your password. You may also change your words/day plan and change your payment method. You can also take a look at your Progress Report. This provides you a current view of what you got right and what you missed. You may also re-send any words that got lost.
See our FAQs for more information. If you don't find an answer to your question, please contact us.
