This concept is being used by Tutor4U founder Jason Hart.
"We connect amazing tutors with motivated students in every subject at all levels, right across New Zealand," he said.
Mr Hart helps harness the intelligence of students by providing a website where they can offer their services as tutors.
He formed the idea last year when he noticed people’s academic study was being affected by Covid-19.
"Not everyone adapted to lockdown learning very well."
A second challenge was students did not have the same opportunities to generate extra income to sustain themselves during study.
"I thought if you could attach the brains of the university students with those who needed help academically and connected those two populations, then it would be a match made in heaven."
Tutor4U was a private tutor marketplace that enabled easy connections.
"Tutors can jump into our login portal, update their details, create a profile, and then on the front end, their profiles get displayed."
Students looking for a tutor were able to search by a number of parameters including subject, tutoring level, location, gender and lesson format.
Tutors were police vetted to ensure safety, and he had plans to check academic transcripts to ensure tutors were verified, Mr Hart said.
"The tutors who are published, they will get a blue tick saying that they are verified."
The tutors could set their own hourly rates and funds went directly to them.
"We say don’t charge less than minimum wage," Mr Hart said.
The financial relationship for Tutor4U was just with the tutors.
"We charge them to be published on our website, and then the relationship between the tutors and the students is between them."
He was talking to student associations across the country and as the platform gained traction he expected more traffic on the site.
"It just allows students to work on their own terms with the knowledge that they already have," he said.
