Kessler Station for Student Success strives to empower students in the Division of Games to succeed in their college career and beyond. Our services are here to help students struggling in core major courses succeed, develop professional skills, and create community amongst undergraduate students.
KSSS provides free, individual support for students in GAMES 3010, 3710, and 3720. Individual tutoring is available to all currently-enrolled University of Utah students.
Appointments can be scheduled for 30 minutes or 60 minutes and may take place in person (Kessler Station, bottom floor of Building 72) or via Zoom.
By scheduling a tutoring appointment, you agree to our policies as outlined below.
If you have any additional questions, please contact the Kessler Station Program Manager Miranda Klausmeier at mklausmeier@utah.edu
CURRENT TUTORS
By scheduling an appointment, you agree to abide by the Kessler Student Success Station and Division of Games policies as laid out below.
- Kessler Student Success Station services are available to currently-enrolled University of Utah students.
- Students must be enrolled in the course for which they are receiving tutoring.
- You can schedule up to 120 minutes of tutoring appointments each day.
- Appointments must be scheduled at least 12 hours in advance. Navigate will not show open appointment slots within 12 hours of their start time. KSSS staff will only schedule an appointment for you within 12 hours of the start time if you have the written consent of the tutor.
- Give the tutor as much information as possible regarding your needs so they can adequately prepare. Example: If you are scheduling an appointment for GAMES 3010, do not just write GAMES 3010 or 'Help'. Instead include the specific topics you want to cover.
- Tutoring must take place at Kessler Station or virtually through Zoom.
- Tutors are not required to meet with students beyond the scheduled session time. Sessions may end early or run long based on student need and tutor availability.
- Tutors and student users are expected to inform the Program Manager of any issues concerning the tutoring sessions (no-show, late cancellations, conflicts, engagement, etc.)
- Tutors have the right to deny services to students who make them feel uncomfortable, unsafe, or make any inappropriate comments.
- Tutors have the right to deny services to students they suspect are cheating. This behavior will be reported to
Division of Games staff, professors, and any other appropriate entities. The Division of Games takes academic integrity very seriously.
The Division of Games, and Kessler Station adhere to the University of Utah’s Academic Honesty Policy and the Academic Misconduct Policy from the Dean of Students. In general, we assume that all work brought to us is the student user’s original work and that they are allowed to engage the help of a tutor in completing their work.
- Tutors will not complete any portion of a student’s homework for them.
- Tutors will not help students with any exams or quizzes without the permission of the instructor.
- If a student is suspected of cheating or plagiarizing their work, this will be reported
to Division of Games staff, professors, the Dean of Students, and any other appropriate entities.
Guidelines on Academic Integrity
The following definitions can also be found in Policy 6-410: Student Academic Performance, Academic Conduct, and Professional and Ethical Conduct:
- “Academic Misconduct” includes, but is not limited to, cheating, misrepresenting one's
work, inappropriately collaborating, plagiarism, and fabrication or falsification
of information, as defined further below. It also includes facilitating Academic Misconduct
by intentionally helping or attempting to help another to commit an act of Academic
Misconduct. - “Cheating” involves the unauthorized possession or use of information, materials,
notes, study aids, or other devices in any academic exercise, or the unauthorized
communication with another person during such an exercise. Common examples of cheating
include, but are not limited to, copying from another Student's examination, submitting
work for an in-class exam that has been prepared in advance, violating rules governing
the administration of exams, having another person take an exam, altering one's work
after the work has been returned and before resubmitting it, or violating any rules
relating to academic conduct of a course or Program. - Misrepresenting one's work includes, but is not limited to, representing material
prepared by another as one's own work, or submitting the same work in more than one
course without prior permission of both Faculty Members. - “Plagiarism” means the intentional unacknowledged use or incorporation of any other
person's work in, or as a basis for, one's own work offered for academic consideration
or credit or for public presentation. Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to,
representing as one's own, without attribution, any other individual's words, phrasing,
ideas, sequence of ideas, information or any other mode or content of expression.
- Cancellations made at least 24 hours before a scheduled appointment via Navigate will
be processed without a penalty. - Rescheduling an appointment must be done at least 24 hours before a scheduled appointment
or it will be considered a late cancellation.
- Tutors and students are required to wait 10 minutes for a 30-minute appointment and 15 minutes for a 60-minute appointment.
- No-show appointments will result in cancellation of your appointment.