Mentoring on StrideHub

Each program has 1–2 mentors. Your job is straightforward:

• Assign tasks to your enrolled students — pick from the curated library or write your own
• Review submissions within ~48 hours and give an honest grade + 2-3 sentences of feedback
• Be reachable if a student is stuck — they message through the platform, you reply when you can

Most mentors spend 3-5 hours per week across all their programs combined. It scales linearly with student count, not program count.

1. Sign in via Google or GitHub
2. Pick “Becoming a Mentor” on the role screen
3. Fill in your mentor profile — bio, expertise, years of experience, optional LinkedIn
4. Wait for admin approval — usually within 24 hours, you'll get an email
5. Once approved, an admin assigns you to 1-2 programs that match your expertise

After approval, you'll land on /dashboard/mentor. The page shows:

• Pending review count — submissions waiting on you. Aim for zero by end of day.
• Reviewed count — total submissions you've graded
• Tasks created — your contribution to the program
• Paid students — number who've completed and earned a certificate under you

The sidebar gives you fast access to Students, Tasks, Task Library, and Submissions.

A “task” is one unit of work for a student — description, deadline, submission type. Most programs have 4-6 tasks total spread over the duration.

You have two ways to create tasks:

The library at /task-library has every approved template for every program you mentor. Templates are tagged by:

• Difficulty — Easy / Medium / Hard
• Type — Text submission / File upload / Link
• Estimated days — guideline for how long the task should take

You can also build a sequence — pick 4 templates in order, then bulk-assign to a student with auto-spaced deadlines (every estimatedDays apart). Saves a lot of clicking when onboarding a new cohort.

Submissions show up in /submissions under the Pending tab. Open a submission to see:

• The original task and its acceptance criteria
• The student's text/file/link submission
• Optional: their description, PDF report URL, GitHub repo, video demo URL, thumbnail
• The student's university and skills (for context)

You give a grade, write feedback, click submit. The student gets an email with your feedback inline. If you graded F, the form auto-unlocks for them to retry — no extra action needed from you.

Use this rough rubric — calibrate to your program domain:

Don't inflate grades. Students compare notes — fair grading builds trust in the program. We'd rather see a student get a B and improve than an A and stagnate.

Most students on StrideHub are undergraduate or recent graduates from Indian universities, balancing this with classes, exams, or job hunts. Be patient with deadline slips — they're usually exam-week slips, not effort issues.

If a student goes silent for >7 days:

1. Send a short check-in via the platform's messaging
2. If still no response after 3 more days, ping the admin team — we have escalation tools

The platform automatically nudges students about deadlines via email; you don't need to do it manually.

Three commitments when you take on a mentee:

• Review within 48 hours

  The platform tracks your average review time. If it drifts past 5 days, the admin team gets an alert and may step in.

• Be honest in feedback

  Don't pass mediocre work to avoid confrontation. Honest feedback is the whole reason students pay for mentorship.

• Tell us if you need to step away

  Life happens. If you can't mentor for >2 weeks (vacation, deadlines, etc.), email admin@stridehub.tech and we'll redistribute your students temporarily.

• admin@stridehub.tech — anything platform-related, escalations, dropping a program, etc.
• Help Center — quick answers to common questions
• Mentor Slack — coming soon. We'll invite you once we hit 10+ active mentors.