[Review] Superstar Teacher

There have been keen interest among parents on Superstar Teacher. I'm on my 4th year as a Superstar Teacher subscriber (subscribed P2, P3, P4, P5 for J), so I would like to share with you more about Superstar Teacher.

If you are keen to try it out, I strongly encourage you to sign up a trial account to see if you like it.  If you sign up using my referral link, and later you decide to subscribe, you will get $50. 

(Here's my short review and comparison of Superstar Teacher, Geniebook, 88Tuition and Koobits, if you haven't read about it)

Before I was a subscriber, I always see their booth at Popular bookstores, but never really check them out. I knew it was sort of a e-learning provider, but at that time, "tuition" wasn't what I was interested in yet since J was still young.

It was towards the end of Primary 1 that I got curious and signed up for a trial account to take a look. I realised the benefit of watching the videos at our own free time because it is more flexible. It also meant lesser stress for me as a parent because although J didn't attend any tuition, we signed her up for various enrichment classes and bringing her here and there and waiting for her was no joke.

And so I signed up for a P2 English and Math. She enjoyed watching the videos, so when it came to end of P2 and there was a good promo, we signed up for P3 English, Math, Science, Chinese. 

Then came P3 when I thought it would be nice to have additional help on English compo. I contacted my account manager to inquire but ended up getting Compo + P4 4 subjects as well, because there was a promotion of free Samsung Galaxy Tab at that time.

Nearing the end of P4, account manager told me they were going to revise the pricing soon. So after discussion with husband, we decided to get the P5 3 subjects package.

So this was how we kept subscribing year after year. If you are keen, do check with your account manager for the latest promotion! We are really happy to get the Samsung Tab as it is super useful for online lessons, HBL, Zoom and stuff, not just Superstar Teacher. It came at the right time.

One thing to note about subscribing is that you can't do it directly on their website. You will have to contact their customer service or account manager to confirm what you are subscribing, and they will generate a Star Code for you to enter in your Parent account, and then proceed with payment from there.

Yes, parent and child have separate account, parent account for the admin stuff like purchasing, activating, assigning tokens, while child account do the studying and redemption of toys. 

Accounts can be logged in via mobile app or desktop. Personally I prefer desktop version because there are some features that are not available in app. App can access lesson videos, more for learning while travelling, however, desktop can access Barry's Mart (toys redemption) , for example.

Here's a run-through for the child's account:

HOME - dashboard for the account.

LEARN - access lessons from here

Within the topic, we can choose to "Master" or "Practise".

"Master" is to go for video lessons

I like it that whenever they have additional info during lesson, the video will auto pause, and the right bar will pop out to give supplementary note, for example, a photo in this case, to show the child what the teacher is describing.

The right bar will also appear once in a while to ask questions in the middle of the lesson, according to what the teacher is saying, so as to prevent the child from daydreaming.

And I really really like Teacher Monica (aka Mrs Leong). She teachers English and Math. She's very clear with her explanations, and use funny examples or shares her experiences to make the lessons interesting. Amazing teacher! 💓

After learning, the child can proceed to "Practise" to answer questions.

REVISE - exercises and quizzes

ASK - If the child has questions or need homework help, and parents/siblings unable to help, he/she can use this feature to ask a teacher question. Do note that 1 question requires 1 token, tokens are given upon subscription, and can be purchased separately or redeemed from Barry's Mart if you require more.

I usually guide J on her work, but there are times when I don't know how to answer. We will then use this feature to get answers. System will assign teacher to answer the question in real time, and they are not the teacher you see in the lesson videos (just in case you are wondering).

REDEEM - most exciting place for J. There are many things here to redeem, but recently she's into lucky draw instead. 😅

That's about it.  If you are keen to try it out, I strongly encourage you to sign up a trial account to see if you like it.  If you sign up using my referral link, and later you decide to subscribe, you will get $50.