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Choosing activities

How to find a tutor your child will actually work with

Qualifications matter less than you'd think. What to look for, what to ask, and how to search classes and tutors near you on Befundo.

The Befundo team · September 26, 2026 · 2 min read

Running classesBring your students over from Excel or your old systemYour list of families already exists somewhere: a spreadsheet, a class app, your phone. How to get it out as a CSV file and into Befundo, matching the columns yourself or with AI.
Choosing activitiesFinding a first piano class for a beginnerGroup or one to one, keyboard or piano, and what a good first term covers. Plus how to find a piano class near you, or online, on Befundo.
Running classesSet up your business in one sittingA new business on Befundo gets a step-by-step setup: your details, your first class, your families. Three steps are required, and you can stop at any point.
Running classesWhiteboard or share screen?Two ways to show a class something in a live lesson. The whiteboard is for drawing live; Share screen is for everything else. Here is why the difference matters.
How children learnMath help after school: a tutor, a class, or practice at home?Three kinds of math help, and which one fits which problem. How to tell, and where to find each on Befundo.
Choosing activitiesRegistering your child for a classRegistering takes two choices: which class, and who it's for. Befundo never picks the child for you, and you can withdraw freely until the class starts.
Choosing activitiesArt and science classes for kids: what a good one looks likeThe best hands-on classes look a little messy. What to look for in an art class or a science club, and how to find one near you.
Running classesYour class, liveHow a live class runs on Befundo: the room opens five minutes before, the teacher starts it with one press, and families join from the same places they already look.
Family lifeKeeping track of several activities without a group chatThree providers, two calendars and a fridge full of notes. How to keep every class, homework and reminder in one place, one child at a time.
Product notesAsk Befundo: "When is Maya's next class?"Ask Befundo answers questions about your own family's classes in plain words. It's free for families, it only knows your household, and it never acts without you.
Running classesHow to start a tutoring business: your first ten familiesYou don't need a website or software budget to start. What you do need, in the order you need it, and how to set it up on Befundo in an afternoon.
How children learnTeach from your own syllabus, or from Quest For SparkEvery class can carry a syllabus that families see and that you tick off meeting by meeting. Bring your own, or switch on Befundo's Quest For Spark curriculum.
Running classesPricing your classes without guessingPer session, per month or per term? How to choose a price and a payment schedule families understand, and how to show both on your class page.
Running classesImport your roster and invite familiesBring the families you already teach onto Befundo from a spreadsheet, or share a class link. Either way, the parent chooses: an import invites, it never enrolls.
Running classesTeaching online, in person, or bothWhen online teaching works, when it doesn't, and how to run either one, or a mix of both, without juggling three different tools.
Family lifeTasks: your to-dos and your class workThe Tasks page keeps two kinds of thing apart: what a class asks of your family, and what you asked of yourself. Here's how Today, carrying over and How it's going work.
Family lifeRoutines: small things, done regularlyA routine is something your child does every day or every week, like reading or practice. Befundo counts the days it happened, never the ones it didn't.
Family lifeYour child's page, and their classesEvery child in your household has a page of their own: their day, their classes, their progress. Here's how to get there, and what you can change on it.
How children learnProgress and reports: where to find themBefundo doesn't issue report cards. What it keeps is a record: attendance, the teacher's notes, the work set, and what the course has covered. Here's where each one is.
Choosing activitiesWhat to look for in a first classThe first session tells you more about the teacher than about your child. Here's what to watch, and how changing your mind works on Befundo.
Running classesTell every family at onceClosed for the holiday, a room change, a reminder that matters today: an announcement reaches every family and notifies them. Here's when to use it, and when a post is better.
Choosing activitiesQuestions worth asking before you enrollNine things that are awkward to ask afterwards and completely normal to ask first — and which of them the class page already answers.
Running classesKnow who has paid, without chasingBefundo doesn't take payments. It keeps your ledger: what each family owes from your class prices, what's arrived, and a way for families to tell you they've paid.
Choosing activitiesWhen to let a child quit"We finish what we start" is a good principle and a bad rule. How to tell the difference, and how stopping a class works on Befundo.
Running classesHandling requests to join and to leaveSome classes let families register straight away; others ask you first. And once a class has started, a family asks to leave. Here's where those requests land and how to answer.
Choosing activitiesReading a class listing properlyAge ranges, class sizes and "all abilities welcome" — what they usually mean. And for providers, the fields that answer a family's questions before they ask.
Running classesHomework families actually doSet work from the class with a type, a due date and something to do. It lands on each family's Tasks page, and you see who's done it.
Running classesPut your classes on your own websiteYour business gets a public page with all your classes, and a widget that shows them on your own website. Both link families straight to registration.
Running classesWhy registers matter more than you thinkTaking attendance is two minutes that answers a dozen questions later — including some you would rather not have to answer.
Product notesAsk Befundo for your businessOn the Growth plan and up, Ask Befundo drafts a class from a sentence and answers questions about the classes you run. Nothing is saved until you approve it.
Running classesWriting an end-of-term report parents will readSpecific beats glowing. A short note about one real thing beats a paragraph of adjectives — and on Befundo, the family reads it where they already look.
Running classesBringing in another instructorInvite an instructor by email, assign them to the classes they teach, and they can run those classes day to day. The business-wide things stay with you.
Running classesFilling a class that is half emptySix things that work, roughly in order of how quickly they work — starting with the families you already have.
Safety and trustPhotographs, permission, and the group chatConsent for photos is easy to collect and easy to get wrong. How Befundo's one photo permission works, and why a no never costs a child their place.
Safety and trustWho can see what about your childA plain account of which adults — and which other families — see which information about your child, and the one setting that changes it.
Safety and trustReporting a concern, and what happens nextMost concerns are small and easily resolved. Raising them early is what keeps them that way — and on Befundo, a report about a message goes to Befundo's own moderators.
Safety and trustWhy we ask providers to verify their businessVerification on Befundo is optional, and nothing depends on it. What each check establishes, what families see, and what it is not.
How children learnPractice is not the same as repetitionTwenty minutes of thinking beats an hour of going through the motions. What that looks like at home, and a routine to hold it.
How children learnThe quiet child in the back rowThey are not disengaged. They are the ones most likely to drop out without anybody noticing — and the record you keep is how you notice.
How children learnProgress you cannot see on a certificateGrades and belts measure one thing. Here's what else is worth noticing, and where on Befundo the record of it lives.
Product notesWhat a class summary may and may not sayAI summaries are built around one rule: they describe what was observed, and nothing else. Who can use them, what families agree to, and what is kept.
Family lifeTwo children, two activities, one carScheduling for siblings is a logistics problem with a fairness problem hiding inside it. A shared calendar helps with both.

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