Learning Connection Center
Welcome to the Learning Connection Center!
The Learning Connection center is located in Building 600 on the 2nd floor and offers FREE drop-in tutoring for Business, ESL, Social Sciences, or World Language classes and tutoring appointments for select courses across subjects. We offer both on-campus and online tutoring with Peer Tutors and ESL Faculty Tutors, along with other resources and services to support student success. The Learning Connection is here to help!
Tutoring
Drop-in Tutoring
- No appointment necessary! Drop in with a quick question or meet with a peer tutor for up to 20 minutes during available hours.
- Drop-in tutors in the Learning Connection center are available for Business, ESL, Social Sciences, or World Language classes
Appointment Tutoring
- Appointments are for 50 minutes.
- Students can schedule one-time and weekly recurring appointments for selected classes.
- Both online or in-person/on-campus appointments available.
- Appointment tutoring is only available during fall and spring semesters.
Making the most of your tutoring session
Please read through the suggestions below to help you make the most of your tutoring session, whether drop-in or appointment:
Tutors are not allowed to do your work for you. But they CAN help you understand and apply the material so you can learn how to do the work yourself. For example, English tutors are not allowed to proofread your papers for you, but they CAN show you how to proofread.
See your instructor when you need help that the tutor isn’t able to provide.
When meeting with a tutor, you should:
- Be ready with specific questions about the material being covered in the session.
Keep the following in mind:
- Your tutor will:
- Help you make sense of what you don’t understand.
- Show you how to find the right answer.
- Review homework you’ve completed.
- Help you learn to read your textbook for understanding.
- Your tutor will not:
- Teach the material or act as your instructor.
- Give you answers or solutions to questions and problems.
- Do your homework for you.
- Explain passages from a textbook you haven’t read.
All tutors are peer tutors; they are students, just like you.
- Do as much of the reading and the homework as possible.
- Come prepared with questions.
- If you have not had time to read and try the homework, bring your text and the assignment to the tutoring session. Bring class notes as well.
With the tutor, set a goal for the tutoring session. Sample goals might be:
- Review the assignment
- Make sure you know how to break down problems
- Start the homework (on your own) so you can ask the tutor specific questions and complete the homework on your own
- Review for a quiz or test
- Look over a quiz or test you have had returned to you
- Better understand a difficult reading passage
- Discuss ideas for an essay
Work towards accomplishing the goal you and the tutor have set for the session and give yourself a few minutes at the end of the session so you can:
- review what you accomplished
- make plans for the next session
- what you might do to prepare for your next session
If you have questions about any of the information above, please come talk with any of our staff. We are here to help!
Computers and Printing
We offer FREE computer access and printing to currently-enrolled students. Students who use computers in any of our centers must adhere to the District Policies regarding computer and network use, as described in Board Policy 3720.
- All student computers in the Learning Connection provide FREE printing; printing is
available in black & white only (no color printing).
- For color printing, students can use the color printer on the 3rd Floor of Building 600, in the Student Computer Lab.
- Printing from our computers is intended for schoolwork and is limited to 20 pages.
- Mobile printing available at chabot.goprint.cloud.
- Student-access copiers may be found on the first floor of Building 600 and in the STEM Center (Bldg. 3900, Rm. 3906). Copiers are equipped with coin/cash capabilities.
- Photocopying costs $0.10 a page in black and white, $0.20 a page in color. The copy machines can take cash.
- For scanning, students can use the scanner on the 3rd Floor of Building 600, in the Student Computer Lab.
More Resources
- Study Rooms: we have 6 study rooms available for students to reserve:
- 5 Medium Study Rooms (max capacity: 4)
- 1 Family Study Room (max capacity: 2)
- Social Sciences models: we have brain and bones models for Anthropology and Psychology courses
- Study supplies: need index cards, scantrons, blue/green books, pens/pencils, or highlighters to help you study? We've got you!
- Study spaces: there are a number of desk spaces and soft seating that also include outlets for laptops or tablets. No need to sign up; just come settle in and study during our open hours anytime!