Learning Centers & Tutoring Services
FCC learning centers staff assist, encourage, and empower students to develop the academic skills and confidence to achieve their goals. Take advantage of free tutoring, academic coaching, and study skills workshops to help you build good study habits and succeed in foundational courses.
STEM Learning Center
For help with introductory science, technology, engineering, math, accounting, or economics courses:
On Campus - Drop In
2nd Floor Braddock Hall, room B-212
Current Hours
Online - By Appointment through Blackboard
Step-by-Step Guide to Online Tutoring.
Schedule Online Appointment
Tutoring & Writing Center
For help with any writing in all courses, research, study skills coaching, and beginning American Sign Language or Spanish:
On Campus - Drop In
Linganore Hall L226, in the Gladhill Learning Commons
Current Hours
Step-by-Step Guide to Online Tutoring.
Schedule Online Appointment
Can’t find FCC tutoring to fit your schedule?
ThinkingStorm® Online Tutoring via Blackboard: Current students are allotted 15 total hours of tutoring per semester. This national company conducts sessions over chat on-demand 24/7, or by appointment, depending on the subject. To access, students must log into Blackboard and open the Tutoring tab (top right-hand side of the page). Learn how to get started, submit a paper to the Writing Center, or make an appointment.
See How it Works
Interested in working as a peer or professional tutor? Find out more here.
Improve study habits and build confidence to achieve your academic goals.
Workshops: On Campus - Coming Soon.
Workshops: Online
Self-paced, interactive, available 24/7.
- How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse (and College) With a Growth Mindset - Train your brain to navigate academic challenges with a growth mindset--and outwit the zombies! (20-25 minutes)
- Give Test Anxiety the Axe - Learn to use the biology behind test anxiety to your advantage, make the most of your memory, and prepare for a successful test day (20-30 minutes).
- Slaying the Procrastination Monster - Learn to combat procrastination and break down overwhelming assignments to get them turned in on time (20-30 minutes).
- Close Encounters of the Math Kind: Dealing with Math Anxiety - Learn what causes math anxiety and ways to successfully deal with it (20-30 minutes).
- Read Faster, Note-Take Smarter - Learn proven reading, annotating, and note-taking methods that will make studying easier (45-50 minutes).
- All Learning Center and Library Tutorials - More to help master studying, researching, citing, and more.
- Quest for Success - The Quest for Success: An Introduction to the Academic Support Services at FCC
An online escape room that will orient students to the important academic support people, places, and resources that will help them be successful in their courses at FCC. Takes 10-15 minutes to complete.
Online Resources
STEM Learning Center
Orientation/Tour (10 minutes)
Online Synchronous or In-Person
Class Visit (20-40 minutes)
Online Synchronous or In-Person
Request Form
Tutoring & Writing Center
Orientation/Tour (10 minutes)
Online Synchronous or In-Person
Class Visit (20-40 minutes)
Online Synchronous or In-Person
Embedded Writing Workshop (50-75 minutes)
Online Synchronous or In-Person
Request Form
Learning Centers & Tutoring Overview
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ThinkingStorm® Online Tutoring
Orientation Video