We’d like to thank Caroline Tseng for participating in the interview. Caroline is an NYU Senior, GradeGuru user and author of the fashion blog street-spotted.com. We’ve also like to thank Fox 5 Tech Guru Brett Larson for his great reporting!
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“BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana University students looking to make up lost ground ahead of finals week have made IU one of the nation’s top users of a new notes-sharing Web site. Last weekend, IU’s Bloomington campus ranked third out of the 322 registered schools in terms of the number of contributors and the quality of content on GradeGuru.com. The McGraw-Hill Education startup site posts students’ notes taken during classroom lectures.
More than 250 IU students used GradeGuru during the weekend, ranking IU behind Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania in terms of users.”
Article: Cornell students using GradeGuru.com to their advantage
“Cornell University students are among the nation’s top five percent of college kids participating in an up-and-coming new study tool.
GradeGuru, a McGraw-Hill Higher Education startup that allows students to upload study materials to receive peer feedback, recognition and rewards, is a new Web 2.0 venture focused on digital note-sharing. With more than 100 new registrations by Cornell students in the last 90 days, the university is fifth on the list of top universities – ahead of 321 other schools including Boston University and Yale University – from which college students are exchanging notes and study materials and get cash and gift cards in return.”
“So far Cornell students who have uploaded notes have collectively earned over $1,200 from their notes. In addition to having paid over $20,000 to students from Cornell and other top schools across the country, GradeGuru is rewarding the top student contributor this semester with an academic scholarship of $1,500 in recognition of their hard work and contribution. So far several Cornell students are front-runner for the scholarship, although there is some stiff competition from Duke University, the University of Pennsylvania, and many other top universities.”
GradeGuru made it to Mashable today!
LINK: “GradeGuru: Collaborative Note Sharing for College Students”
Author: Ben Parr
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UPDATE:
This comment was just posted on the Mashable by a student:
i’m a college student and i think it’s really helpful…i painstakingly take pages and pages of notes every class but sometimes the professor goes too fast and I miss the 3 or 4 sentences that just happen to be the most important part of the lecture. Or I’m trying to keep up & can’t read my writing. Or sometimes I just don’t understand why I wrote something down. My friends in my classes and I share our notes before exams because sometimes the way someone else wrote something down just makes more sense.
Also, after nearly every lecture when I come home and am reading over my notes there are always things that I need to know in more detail, or just need to hear it a different way to really get it, so I end up spending hours researching whatever the topic is online, and sorting through the thosands of articles in my school’s databases. Having one place where I can search for the topic will be really helpful to fill in the blanks that I might have in my notes.
I know my friends and I plan to use GradeGuru before finals to share our notes with eachother so we can save paper and not photocopy different pages for different people, etc.
Also, it’s a good place for me to STORE my notes…right now I have boxes and boxes of file folders overflowing.People who use GradeGuru maliously won’t get anything out of it in the end anyhow. I see people cheat in class all of the time and maybe that gets them a high A when I studied super hard and barely got a 90%. But when I have my MPH and then my Phd and they couldn’t even get into a good grad school….well, then cheating won’t seem to them like it was worth it.
