Mathematics Department Help Centre

During the summer, our virtual help centre will be open Monday to Friday until the August exam period for free drop-in help – no appointments are necessary. The help centre is staffed by graduate students from the department of mathematics. The help centre officially opens for the summer term on Tuesday May 20^th 2025.

Virtual Hours:

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 1:00pm to 5:00pm on MS Teams (see link below)

Tuesday and Thursday, 4:00pm to 8:00pm on MS Teams (see link below)

Note: students using the help centre outside of the above times can expect their questions to be answered during the next scheduled synchronous time.

Joining the Virtual Help Centre

It is recommended that you install Microsoft Teams on your computer. The browser based approach further below has limitations, (as does mobile).

After installing Microsoft Teams on your computer and logon to your Western Office 365 account. After you have done that return to this tab and click on the link below:

Virtual Help Centre

Clicking this link should enroll you in a Microsoft Team, if it doesn't try restarting Teams and clicking the link again. Clicking on the "Teams" tab in Microsoft Teams should produce a lovely rainbow coloured circle with the heading "Mathematics Department Virtual Help Centre".

Clicking on that rainbow coloured circle will bring you to the Mathematics Department Virtual Help centre. For information on how to use it click on the "General" tab and then click on "How to use the..." at the top of the page.

 An alternative method (browser based)

Log on to your Western email, i.e. Office 365. From the office home page search for the Microsoft Teams page.

You can join the team (see top right browser window) with the code: arl8xza

Private Mathematics Tutors

As a service to those students seeking private tutors for university mathematics courses, the Department of Mathematics is displaying the following list of persons who have expressed an interest in private tutoring. The Department of Mathematics is posting this list without commenting on the qualifications or on the quality of tutoring by those persons named on this list, nor with fees that may be charged.

See Private Tutor List

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