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How to Stay Connected in College
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Below you will find a four-part video series that will introduce you to CircleIn.
Short videos to help you learn how to use each studying feature within CircleIn
Learn how easy it is to stay connected with your classmates on CircleIn.
Learn how to create study decks and the different ways CircleIn helps you study.
CircleIn loads all of your classes automatically. See how they're organized on CircleIn.
Learn how to take notes on CircleIn and keep all your notes organized.
Learn how to create or upload different content on CircleIn to share with your classmates.
Learn all about our points and rewards to start earning and winning.
Learn how to create tasks on CircleIn to help you stay organized and manage school workload.
Note: MVP criteria is subject to change every semester. This is due to new features, product updates, user feedback, and launch date.
An MVP is a digital trophy that gets awarded to students who earn 200,000 points or more in one given week.
MVP’s are important because in order to become eligible to win a scholarship, you have to earn at least eight MPVs in one semester.
After you earn eight MVP’s, you will automatically be entered into our scholarship giveaway.
Don’t stop there..
The more MVP’s you earn, the more entries you get towards our scholarships giveaway. Every MVP you earn after the minimum criteria increases your odds of being selected as a winner.
Keeping track of your points is easy.
Option 1: Go the the Leaderboard tab and search for your name
Option 2: Go to your profile. If you're on the web version, this will be located on the top right hand side of your screen. If you're on the mobile app, It will be on the top left hand side once you open up the side panel menu.
Your account is tied to your courses for a specific term. When you graduate, you no longer have any active classes and will not be able to view or participate in CircleIn’s study features.
Every term the previous courses and content shared is refreshed and is no longer available for view or participation.
Your account is tied to your courses for a specific term. Every term the previous courses and content shared is refreshed and is no longer available for view or participation.
Note: Courses participating in CircleIn may change every semester/term. This is due to requests from professors/students, contract sizes, or other reasons.
Courses offering CircleIn as a resource varies from school to school. Some schools use CircleIn as a way to introduce first-year students to healthy study habits and other schools use CircleIn for more advanced courses that require a lot of collaboration with classmates in order to achieve success.
Once you log into CircleIn, click on the My Classes tab. All of the classes that have access to CircleIn will appear here.
If you have not received your gift card it could be for a couple reasons:
Uploading your notes is a great way to share studying tools within CircleIn, as well as get a new perspective on a class lecture by viewing the notes you classmates share.
Every time you upload your notes, you earn 10,00 points!
Flashcards have been proven to be an effective way to study because they allow you to test your knowledge and your ability to recall information.
Ever find a super helpful website or video that fits perfectly with a course you are taking? Share those helpful links with your classmates on CircleIn and earn points towards a gift card or scholarship!
Earn 5,000 points per link you share (daily limit for earning points on links is 5)
Workflow is an awesome organizational tool that allows you to keep track of your assignments and school related tasks, all in one place.
You earn points for both creating tasks (1,000 points) and getting tasks done (1,500 points).
Video Chat allows you to connect with your classmates for those deeper conversations and more complex problems.
If your video study session goes over 10 min, you will earn 50,000 points.
Have access to your entire class, message a specific classmate, or create a study group with several peers! Group chat allows you to do it all.
There are two ways you can access the group chat:
Within the flashcard study tool, use Study Mode to review decks you have created and practice memorizing any terms or information you have added to them:
CircleIn’s in-app tool provides a Note-Taking experience for students to provide convenience by allowing them to type and store notes in one place.
Creating Notes
Key Highlights
**This tool is currently only available on the web version.
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