Bobbin is the Lesson delivery system that works alongside TutorCruncher. As a Tutor, Bobbin is where you'll prepare for and deliver your Lessons, complete Lesson Reports, and track Student progress - all in one place.
Bobbin enhances each Lesson with AI-powered tools. After every session, Bobbin automatically transcribes the Lesson, generates insights into what was covered, and helps you write your Lesson Report. Everything is designed to reduce admin and give you more time to focus on teaching.
Connecting Bobbin to TutorCruncher
If your organization uses TutorCruncher, your Lessons are created and scheduled there as normal. When it's time to complete a Lesson Report, instead of doing so in TutorCruncher, you'll be redirected to Bobbin to complete it. Once you finalize the report in Bobbin, you'll be sent back to TutorCruncher and the Lesson will be marked as complete. See Completing a Lesson Report.
You can also access Bobbin directly at any time to prepare Lesson plans, review past Lessons, or check Student progress.
Not every agency uses TutorCruncher. If yours runs Bobbin on its own, everything below works the same way — you'll just sign in with an email address and password rather than through TutorCruncher.
What Tutors can do in Bobbin
As a Tutor, you have access to the following in Bobbin:
Dashboard — see today's Lessons, who has joined the ones that are running, and anything requiring your attention at a glance
Lessons — view, prepare for, deliver, and complete all your Lessons
Courses — view the Courses you teach and manage Course Outlines
Students — view the Students on your Courses and Lessons
Calendar — your Lessons laid out by date, in your own timezone
Resources — your own library of files, plus anything your agency has shared, ready to open inside a Lesson
There's also a search box covering your Students, Lessons and Courses, which only returns things you're able to open.
Note: Tutors only see the Courses and Lessons they are assigned to. Administrators see everything across the organization.
The Bobbin mobile app
Tutors are the only users with a mobile app. Sign in by tapping Sign in with TutorCruncher, and the app keeps you signed in for 30 days. It's built around the day-to-day job of running Lessons and writing up notes, and if your agency has opted into the in-person beta it's also how you record a face-to-face Lesson to get a transcript and insights from it. See Recording in-person Lessons with the Bobbin app.
The app can send you a daily notification summarizing the Lessons you have that day, if your agency has enabled it.
Choosing your emails
You can turn off the Lesson ready for review and Transcript ready for review emails under Notifications on your profile.
Teaching for more than one agency
If you work with several organizations that use Bobbin, use the Organization menu at the top of the sidebar to switch between them. Your Lessons, Recordings and Calendar show the Lessons from all your agencies together, labeled by agency, and you can filter them by agency. A Student you teach at more than one agency appears once in your Students list. Your review emails can be switched on or off separately for each agency. See Working with more than one agency.
Connecting an AI assistant
If your agency has turned it on, you can connect Claude or a similar AI assistant to Bobbin and ask it about your Courses, Lessons and transcripts. It only ever sees what you can see. See Connecting Claude to Bobbin.
Keeping your account secure
Because you sign in to Bobbin through TutorCruncher, your password, sign-in email and two-factor authentication are all managed in TutorCruncher rather than in Bobbin.