SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Paper, an online tutoring application, is an accessible tool for East Side Union High School District, including Silver Creek High.

Online tutoring platforms like Paper is a useful tool to help students after-school hours. With Paper available anytime, students are able to keep up with their work, review confusing and difficult ideas, and better retain their knowledge. But true success is determined by how actively students will choose to use it and take advantage of it.

The platform offers help for all subjects ranging from mathematics, science and even writing. It can find students reviewing class materials using it or go through practice problems and specific questions. This kind of support makes Paper a potentially strong resource in the way of students wanting to improve their learning skills. Paper is free! You can access it at any time of the day through Arms. 

Jennifer Le, a freshman at Silver Creek, typically uses Paper when she has big writing assignments. “It helped me on my English essay because I needed revisions on it.” Demonstrating how Paper is a super helpful tool that students should take advantage of for extra help with English, which a lot of people struggle with. 

Thinh Quoc Nguyen, a junior at Silver Creek, emphasized how he doesn’t see many students using it despite the extra assistance it gives. This lack of usage can be for many reasons such as, lack of motivation, not being sure about how to take full advantage of the platform, or believing extra help is not needed or even that it’s not useful. 

Increasing the promotion of Paper, schools could encourage students to use and try the platform and show them just how it might support their academic and education goals. Paper is a great resource for students so in conclusion students should take advantage of this amazing tool.