PSE students given access to academic resources through universityjunction.com

Exam season is fast approaching for University of Alberta students, who’ll soon be on the hunt for resources that can provide immense amounts of academic information. With that in mind, a new free online network for undergraduate students called universityjunction.com has been created to supply information to students ranging from class notes to lectures.

Students are able to log onto the site using their university email address, and are then prompted to add their classes, which enables access to notes, research papers, and anything else other users have uploaded that has been deemed useful in approaching prior tests and assignments. There are also chat forums where students are able to message one another to both ask and answer questions.

“We felt that if we could cut down on the time students spent searching for information and put it all into one spot so that students could collaborate, then […] that pretty much closes the education gap and gives students the opportunity to study more efficiently,” said Liz Mitchell, a recent McGill University graduate student and co-creator of universityjunction.com.

“Right now, we’re running this program. It’s online tutoring and it’s completely free. What happens is […] students can go onto our site, and they can post questions in either the class forums or the global forums, and we have professional tutors answer them for us or for the students,” Mitchell added.

The next steps for the site include expanding the network of 1200 current users and adding to the 1.1 million pieces of class resources available. The website is now accessible to students on 56 campuses across North America, including the U of A.

“Right now we’re actually focusing on campuses across the US and Canada, we’re really focusing on getting users started with our website,” Mitchell said.

“We have many, many different features that we’re going to be rolling out until the end of the year.”