August 26th, 2009
We’ve beefed up StudyBlue for the Fall semester by drilling deep on the features you love and doubling down with more great study tools. What hasn’t changed? You can still search and view all the content on StudyBlue for free. We believe that sharing is caring, so we want to encourage everyone to keep teaming up and helping each other study smarter, not harder – for free!
What has changed? A lot. We’ve made it easier than ever to add/remove classes. We’ve also eliminated some clutter, so you can get right down to business. Whether it’s using Notes or Decks or connecting with classmates, the options are more accessible than ever.
We also recently added a new Premium Package. For a minimal fee students can have access to even more value and tools from StudyBlue. You will always be able to study, print and download your own content for free. However, we’ve added some more killer study features that Premium Users are sure to love. Don’t worry, we added some great features for all users as well.
Premium Users get some added goodies:
- Study Routine – Let us set a schedule for you based on when your test is and what you need to learn. We’ll track your progress and update you along the way. Check it out under the ‘Study’ section.
- Merge Decks – Search and combine cards from all Decks on the site to make your own super-awesome-all-knowing-mega-huge Deck.
- iPhone / iPod Touch App – Take all your notes and flashcards on the go with our new iPhone/iPod Touch App. Bookmark any Note or Deck you see on the site, and it instantly appears in the app.
All users will be able to take advantage of these new tools:
- Printing Decks as Flashcards – Now you can print all your Decks in case you want the hard copy. In addition, Premium Users can print all public Decks.
- Test Your Knowledge with Brain Games - Now you can study your Decks using popular Memory and Match games. In addition, Premium Users can play Brain Games with all public Decks.
- Audio and Video Notes – Create audio or video notes. Practice a speech, record a lecture, teach your friend something new, the possibilities are endless.
- Audio Decks – Add audio content to your cards when creating a Deck. Great for language classes.
- Password Protect Your Stuff – Now you can password protect any Note or Deck to ensure only those who you want to see it, can.
Can’t wait for what’s next!! We aren’t going to unveil everything all at once, but we’ve got even more cool tools coming down the pipe:
- Quizzing – Study your Decks in quiz format. We’ll generate the quiz for you automatically, you just have to get ‘em all right.
- Ask the Expert – Stumped on that Biology question? Need help with supply and demand curves? We’ll have trained experts on hand to answer your questions.
We hope you like the new digs. As always let us know what you like and don’t like, in addition to what you want to see next. Oh yeah, I almost forgot Rewards is on its way, so stay tuned!!
Tags: New Features, Premium