The Academic Program Tutor works under the coordination of the Program’s Chair and is responsible for guiding and monitoring students during their formation, taking direct and proactive actions to offer solutions to the challenges that could arise during the course of studies.

The Academic Tutor performs the following tasks:

• Monitors online learning and how it is structured in terms of delivery and interactive teaching and self-study activities;
• Monitors the methods for developing educational interaction and the ways in which professors, subject tutors, and students are involved, as well as the activities carried out by students.
• Monitors, coordinated with the Program’s Chair, the appropriateness of the e-tivities (problems, reports, case studies, simulations, etc.) developed for each subject;
• Guides students on the degree programs;
• Acts to prevent drop-outs;
• Supervises, in coordination with the Program’s Chair and the support of the Teaching Division, the work of the different Subject Tutors;
• Collaborating with lecturers and subject tutors to organise e-tivities, with the specialist support of the technical tutor;
• Organising training and refresher courses for subject tutors, with the support of the Teaching Division, with a view to improving online teaching;
• Maintaining continuous contact with students on the degree programmes through the communication tools provided by the e-learning platform and other services available to the University, ensuring a prompt response.

Subject tutors, who play an important role for students, are responsible for:

• maintaining a dialogue on the topics studied with those enrolled in the various degree programmes;
• creating study groups for exam preparation;
• developing the educational programmes and specific topics through webinars;
• supporting students in any learning difficulties related to individual subjects.

Students enrolled in level I and II master’s programmes are supported in their learning by the following tutors in addition to their lecturers.

For a number of years now, UnitelmaSapienza has been appointing a process tutor: an expert professional who supports individual students not in terms of subject content but rather in terms of analysing learning difficulties, any setbacks in their studies and their initial orientation through the reception service.

The areas of intervention are:

• management of inactive students;
• integrated drop-out management;
• customer care;
• reception desk;
• disability and SLD desk.

The process tutorship is overseen by a dedicated Organisational Unit managed by Dr. Vincenzo D’Onofrio.