Study groups

• Started by

  Study group

  Any student

  Class

  A teacher

• Who runs it

  Study group

  Its owner, with the members

  Class

  The teacher

• Joining

  Study group

  Code, invitation, or a request the owner approves

  Class

  Code, or a request the teacher approves

• Tests

  Study group

  Challenges between friends

  Class

  Class tests, marked and ranked

• Certificates

  Study group

  No

  Class

  Yes

A group is not tied to a subject. Share anything from any subject into it.

Dashboard, and My Groups

1. Create one

   On your dashboard, give the group a name and, if you like, what it is for, a grade and a country. Tick List in Group Discovery if other students may find it and ask to join.

2. Or join one

   Type a group's 6-character code to join at once. Accept an invitation when a member invites you. Or browse Discover Groups and ask to join; the owner lets you in.

3. Bring friends in

   Any member can press Invite peers and invite someone by name. They get a notice to accept or decline.

• Press Share to group on a problem, quiz, lab, note, test, course or discussion. The button shows once you are in a group.
• Share a link to anything off the site. YouTube and Vimeo videos play inside the group.
• The group has its own discussion. Only members can read and write in it.
• Other members get a notice when something is shared or posted. Recent Activity on the group page shows it all in one list.

A challenge turns a test someone shared into a race between the members.

1. Share a test

   A published mock test or question set, or a practice test someone built.

2. Make it a challenge

   On the shared test, press Make it a challenge, set a deadline if you want one, and press Create Challenge. Every member is told.

3. Take the test

   Each member takes it in their own time. Your best attempt counts, so a retry can only help. Everyone is told when a member submits.

4. The deadline

   About a day before it, members who have not taken it get a reminder. Attempts after the deadline do not count. When it passes, every member is told who won.

With more than one challenge, Overall Standings counts each member's medals and average across all of them. Past challenges fold away under their own heading, with a search box once there are many.

The top three in a closed challenge win gold, silver and bronze. Your medals from every group are under Group Achievements on your dashboard. Only you see this. Medals stay even if you leave the group.

The person who creates a group is its owner. The owner can:

• let in, or decline, students who asked to join from Discover Groups;
• remove a member (they are told);
• hand the group to another member with Make Owner (they are asked first, and everyone is told);
• ask for the group to be deleted (an admin reviews it, and every member is told).

A member who is not the owner can Leave at any time. The owner hands the group on, or asks to delete it, instead of leaving.

A group's discussion and shared items are for its members. Moderators can read a group to act on a report, and a reported item can be removed.