Naturally, this comes out after I’ve already graduated….
I met Ross Blakenship, the founder and CEO of StudyHall.com, last semester at Dean and Deluca. He shared with me the idea behind the website and I provided some feedback from student’s perspective.
I know, all too well, how much technology plays a role in collaborating and studying with other students. I’ve written entire group papers using Google Documents. (I’ve even been in a class where four of us used a Google Document to take shared notes.)
Ross says, “The idea for StudyHall came from my experiences at
Cornell using many different technologies to achieve one simple goal: getting better grades in class. I thought why not make studying
and collaboration simpler, easier and a better experience for students?”
Cornell using many different technologies to achieve one simple goal: getting better grades in class. I thought why not make studying
and collaboration simpler, easier and a better experience for students?”
At Georgetown, we pretty much relied on Blackboard for all student collaboration… and if anyone else uses that platform, you probably have shared some of the similar frustrations that I did. Unlike Blackboard, StudyHall.com was built by students. The programming team consists of college students from Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, MIT
and Cornell. I love this!!!
My favorite features:
Course Pages | Every class has its own page with a great questions and comment
section for students to ask each other for help or talk about class easily with
one another. All your classmates are listed on the page as well, so it’s easy
to find a study buddy, or organize for group projects!
section for students to ask each other for help or talk about class easily with
one another. All your classmates are listed on the page as well, so it’s easy
to find a study buddy, or organize for group projects!
Documents | You can not only take notes directly on the platform, but
you can also upload old documents, and all of this information is stored on
your own personal cloud, so as long as you have internet you’ll be able to
access your notes anytime, anywhere.
you can also upload old documents, and all of this information is stored on
your own personal cloud, so as long as you have internet you’ll be able to
access your notes anytime, anywhere.
Study Sessions | Study Sessions are an
easy way to study with classmates instantly via a video chat with synchronous
document editing, so no matter where your group project
members are, you can all chat together while working on the same document
simultaneously. I love this because no one can use the “I’m out of town” excuse!!!
easy way to study with classmates instantly via a video chat with synchronous
document editing, so no matter where your group project
members are, you can all chat together while working on the same document
simultaneously. I love this because no one can use the “I’m out of town” excuse!!!
xoxo
PS Great news! If you want to sign up for StudyHall.com, you can get EARLY (and free-for-life!) access by using the code “prepster” during sign up!
This would be so useful!
We use blackboard and Sakai at UNC. Ugh. I hate them both – they make everything so difficult for students, and they're constantly crashing.
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I think I ran into a glitch, everything I click leads me back to my profile page. If you know how to fix it or can get me in contact with someone else who can it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Wow, this is such a great idea! I'm a junior in college and am SO happy that you posted this. We used to use Blackboard in my High School (we follow our college) then when LSU switched over to Moodle, we followed suit. I'm loving Moodle a lot more than Blackboard, that's for sure!
I really like this page! There's only two of us from UGA on it as of now!
I'm a student at LSU Health Sciences Center and as brilliant and wonderful as this idea is, it may be considered illegal at some schools! LSUHSC has a pretty intense policy about sharing notes and things from the teacher. I encourage everyone who looks into this website to check your school's (or class') policy on sharing materials. It may be different because it looks like it's based only on student-produced material, but I would hate for someone to get in trouble because of this!
Anyway I LOVE LOVE LOVE your website and visit almost every day! 🙂
This looks so cool, I can't wait to check it out for myself!
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