Teacher FAQs

TeacherPresto is an online teaching platform that connects groups of (max 10) learners with teachers offering a variety of English courses via live group video chat.

With an internet connection and access to a computer, camera and microphone, you can teach from anywhere.

We offer a platform for teachers to organize, promote and deliver online English classes to groups of learners all over the world. This includes:

• Access to our global community of learners
• Student level testing prior to joining your groups
• Responsive support through email and video call
• Payment management and payments when you need them.
• In-platform direct communications with individual students or groups

We take care of the admin and logistics so you’re free to concentrate on teaching time.

It’s entirely up to you! When you create your course, you can choose from a wide range of pre-set class topic options, or create your own.

While TeacherPresto doesn’t require formal teaching qualifications, previous teaching experience is recommended. If you plan to teach children, we will require a criminal background certificate. The exact certificate required will depend on your country of residence and/or origin. You can consult a list here.

You do not need to be a native speaker, but at least C2 level is necessary.

Publishing courses is completely free, and the price for any course is set by you. We take a fee of 18% only after a student has enrolled in your course, so we only get paid after we’ve successfully brought students to you. Since the classes are for groups of up to 10, you may need to pay a fee to your video platform provider. Check our list of free and paid platforms and what they include here.

TeacherPresto works with different payment providers to get your money to you. The main payment methods we use are:

• Bank Transfer
• Wise
• PayPal (EU only)
• Bizum (Spain only)

(While at TeacherPresto we do NOT charge any fee for your transfers, you may be subject to fees from your receiving entity if your currency is other than EUR.)

You can request your payment from TeacherPresto at any time during the month for classes that have already been given. We give you your money whenever you need it.

Your earnings depend entirely on how many courses you offer and the price you set. There is no limit on the number of courses you can offer at TeacherPresto and many of our teachers teach full-time with us. We do limit student numbers to 10 per group to ensure quality attention for our learners.

You need a laptop or desktop with camera, microphone, and a strong internet connection. Local or cloud storage is also recommended, if you plan to offer class recordings to absent students.

You are free to use whichever video conferencing platform you prefer. However, given that the classes are group classes, there may be some restrictions to consider if you do not have a paid subscription to a platform. Here is a list of the most popular videoconferencing platforms and what they may cost for group classes:

Plan details and prices are taken from the supplied FAQ document and should be verified before publication.

While not a strict requirement, we highly recommend that you record your classes, in particular if a student has paid but cannot attend a class.

You can choose how to share, whether it be via Google drive, Dropbox, or any other cloud storage. However, for privacy, it’s very important that the recordings cannot be downloaded, only watched.

All communication with the group is through the course noticeboard, which will appear after you’ve created your course, or direct messaging inside the TeacherPresto platform.

We understand that things can come up, so if you do have to cancel a class you’ve scheduled, you should cancel it in the TeacherPresto platform with as much prior notice as possible, let your students know either by direct message or on the class noticeboard, and drop a quick email TeacherPresto.

The following actions are not permitted on TeacherPresto and may lead to your account being disactivated:

• Accepting payment outside of TeacherPresto.
• Accepting students into a group who have not registered and joined the group through the TeacherPresto website.
• Sharing your own, or other users’ private contact information, such as email addresses, phone numbers, IDs, usernames etc. and includes social media accounts and channels, blogs, websites etc.
• Showing disrespect, engaging in obscenities, theft of personal information, purposely causing offense to other TeacherPresto users, and any other behaviours that can contribute to disharmony inside the TeacherPresto platform or in any class.
• Creating a false profile, or providing inaccurate, misleading, or false information anywhere in the TeacherPresto platform
• Promoting language services from TeacherPresto competitors
• Engaging in negative or defamatory behaviour towards TeacherPresto