About Us
The Reading & Writing Center (RWC) at Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus is an academic support center that received the 2020 Exemplary Practice Award by the Association of Florida Colleges. We serve currently enrolled MDC students. Tutors are available in person and online to help students with their writing, grammar, reading, and speech delivery skills; their transfer and scholarship application essays; and their assignments for any reading, writing, or speech class and any other course that is reading/writing intensive.
Our tutors can share feedback and clarify the next steps for a particular assignment or help students assess where they are in their reading and writing skills and recommend what they should do next. Tutors can assist in answering questions students might have about assignments, course papers, and other reading and writing tasks and guide them through the process, better equipping them with the necessary skills to succeed in class and beyond.
Scheduling an Appointment
To schedule an appointment, students can call us at 305-237-7023 or 305-237-3466 during our hours of operation or they can visit mdc.navigate.eab.com and select a tutor from "Wolfson - Reading & Writing Center/Learning SPOT."
Please keep in mind of the following before making an appointment:
- Appointments at the Reading & Writing Center are an hour long.
- Students can only schedule one appointment per day at the RWC.
- Students who do not show up to their RWC appointment within the first 20 minutes will be marked as a no-show.
- Students with four no-shows within a span of 90 days (no matter which tutoring center has marked them as no-shows) will be blocked on Navigate from making more appointments. Students who experience this must contact the lab manager or coordinator of the tutoring center that has marked them as missed to discuss a solution.
- Students who make an appointment at the RWC should email the assignment instructions and their latest draft (if any) to their tutor prior to their appointment.
Read the step-by-step guide below on how to schedule an appointment directly on Navigate. Watch the video that follows for further guidance.
How-to Guide
1. Go to the MDC Student Navigate homepage at https://mdc.navigate.eab.com. Click on the Login with your myMDC account button, and enter your MDC student username and password.
2. Once logged in, click on the Appointments tab on the navigation panel.
3. In Appointments, you can see any upcoming and past appointments. To schedule a new appointment, click on the Schedule Appointment button.
4. On the new page, select the Purpose and Service.
To see a tutor from the Reading & Writing Center:
- select "Tutoring Appointments" for the question "What is the Purpose for your Appointment?";
- select either "01. Writing/Reading - Tutoring" or "08. Speech - Tutoring" for Service, depending on the nature of your assignment and for what class;
- and, lastly, select a Date.
Once every field is completed, click on the Find Available Time button.
5. The new page will display alphabetically all the MDC centers that offer tutoring appointments in the chosen service and on the selected date. On this page, you can change the date as well as use various filters to narrow down the results.
To view availability at the Reading & Writing Center, you can use the Location filter and select us or you can scroll down the page and find us. We're listed as "Wolfson - Reading & Writing Center/Learning SPOT." Alternatively, if you know the name of the RWC tutor you wish to see, you can use the Staff filter.
Whether you find us using the Location filter or you scroll down to us, select our center.
6. Once you are on our center's page, you will see all the availabilities for the upcoming days. You also have the option to view the schedules of individual tutors by clicking on the People link at the top, which will take you to a new page where you can select a tutor. Once you have settled on a time, click on it.
7. In the Review Appointment Details and Confirm page, you can review the date and time you selected and see our location and the tutor you'll work with during the session.
Complete the form by:
- selecting from the dropdown menu in the "How would you like to meet?" field what modality (in-person or virtual) you want, and
- writing in the "Would you like to share anything else?" textbox the assignment you are working on.
Once the form is filled out, click on the Schedule button.
8. You now have an appointment at the Reading & Writing Center! A message will pop up informing you that the appointment has been successfully scheduled.
You can click on the View Appointments button or on the Appointments tab and see the appointment you just scheduled in the Upcoming section.
You should have received an automatic confirmation email with your appointment's details. These details will include the name of your tutor and his/her email address. If the appointment is in person, it will state our location (room 2301 at the Wolfson Campus), and if it's online, the Zoom link for the appointment will be included. (If you need help in logging into Zoom in order to join us, check out this step-by-step guide.)
Video
Watch the video below for a demonstration on how to make an appointment on Navigate.
Schedule with One of Our Tutors
Click on one of the buttons below to see the schedule of the selected tutor. You will be asked to sign into Navigate and choose a service (writing/reading or speech) before seeing the tutor's availability.
CONTACT US
If you are still struggling with making an appointment, please call us at 305-237-7023 or 305-237-3466 during our hours operation.
Hours of Operation
- Monday – Thursday 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
- Friday 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
- Saturday 8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
- Sunday CLOSED
How to Reach Us
- Physical Location: room 2301, The Learning SPOT, Wolfson Campus
- Online Location: Virtual Front Desk (You must first log into your MDC Zoom account in order to enter. For guidance on how to do this, read this how-to.)
- Telephones: 305-237-7023 | 305-237-3466
- Emails: LSWolfson@mdc.edu | RWCWolfson@mdc.edu
- Websites: English and Communication Department Wolfson | YouTube | Navigate
If you have any questions regarding our services, please contact Giselda Aguiar, Reading & Writing Center/Learning SPOT Manager, at 305-237-3770.