Christian, I'm not sure how this comes across as an "idea"? Although I stand by my personal opinions, I don't feel it appropriate that you felt it necessary to post my private message to you on the idea board without asking my permission. I thanked you for your comments and suggested that if there is something you would like to see implemented then use the Idea Board. All you have done is say how you disagree with my opinion, which really doesn't help anybody. If you have an idea for eduFire it needs written clearly, positively (i.e. "why" it's a good idea) and concisely. Thank you.

Christian, there's no way for eduFire to judge how good a teacher is before eduFire. Sure, you can put things up in your profile, etc., but if we had a point system based on how much experience a teacher has before eduFire, the teacher could just be lying, and there's no way for eduFire to verify anything. As for price, you can set whatever price you want. I charge $25 a lesson, and I do 10+ lessons a week. Recently I decreased my students to about 10, because I didn't have time for more. If I wanted, I could increase my rates, and people would still come, but I don't do that because I enjoy teaching and want to help my students. My point is, I charge more than a lot of people, and I still have plenty of students. If students know you are a good teacher, then they will be willing to pay more for that quality (not saying I'm a good teacher, but I try). eduFire tutors are responsible for making themselves stand out amongst the other tutors. Sure, we are doing are best to bring new students in, but the question is, how can you stand out compared to the other tutors in your niche? That's what makes eduFire so great, it is an open platform, and it really is full of great teachers who want to teach because they love teaching. That's why I'm here. I enjoy every moment of it (and other sites I've looked at just seem like a bad environment). To summarize, there is no way for _edufire_ to know what your previous experience is. That's _your_ job. You can do that via your "about me" section. You can do that by blogging, and showing you are an authority in your language. You can do youtube to _show_ people that you are good at that language, and that you would be a good teacher. That's so much better, and so much more accurate than anything eduFire could do in terms of a point system for showing your experience. Also, I think you're missing something. The actual point system, that shows how many points you have...That's based on how students have rated you. If they give you a good score, you get a point. If they give you a low score, you lose a point. If they give you a medium score, you stay the same. This is different than the "sessions completed" part, too. Hopefully that helps clarify some things, and also expresses my heated opinion ;)

It's a good and argumented comment ! I have nothing to say ! I would suggest to put on the platform "rated on edufire" or rated 85 %. I will adapt to this system by giving free possibility to interested people to intend a course to make their own opinion; Edufire is not a bad system. Nethertheless as it is payd on % on global number of lessons * price of these lessons, the interest of Edufire is to increase the global income of teacher which is the stream of it's prosperity. There is an optimum to find for student, fore Edufire and for teachers. Microeconomy should find the best price; I am not sure that the "invisible hand" does it by itself. Nethertheless thanks for argumented response