Do you want unlimited access to past exams, notes, and other assignments from your courses?
I’m just going to take a wild guess here and say your answer is, “yes”. After all, what student wouldn’t want to make a class much easier. The practice of passing around old notes, quizzes, tests, and study guides is no new concept. College students have been doing this for a long time now. The problem is, in the past many people were missing out on these excellent resources. That all has changed now thanks to a website called Koofers.com.
What is Koofers.com?
Koofers’s philosophy is to “level the playing field” for all students.
It is an online community where students can share all of their old assignments from past courses. On the site, you can connect with students in your class, as well as with students in equivalent courses nationwide. Koofers.com doesn’t only provide you with a great place to find past quizzes, notes, exams, and other assignments, the site has some other great features as well.
Features
- Share exams, quizzes, and other assignments.
- Create & review flashcards online.
- Rate & review your professors.
- Read reviews on courses.
- Grade Distributions.
- Create & print the perfect schedule.
- …& more.
How Koofers.com is Useful.
I am a firm believer of putting in as little effort possible while still making good grades. Koofers.com helps a lot with this. You can find notes, quizzes, and old notes that students have posted. This takes some of the workload off of you, which makes it easier to study, since the materials you need are readily available.
Another way studying is made easier with Koofers.com is the ability to make flashcards online. It is very simple to make flashcards for an upcoming test or quiz that you have. Once a set is created, you can review them online with an easy to use interface. Not only can you create your own set of flashcards, but you can review sets other students have created as well.
I don’t know of a more versatile way to collaborate online with other students. With features like note sharing, professor ratings, and course reviews, it’s a wonder why all college students aren’t using it.
What Next?
Once you sign up for your free account on Koofers.com, it’s time to get started.
You start by plugging in all of your courses, which is very easy to do. After you get that knocked out, you can go on exploring all the great features Koofers.com has to offer. Be sure to check to see if any of your classmates have an account with Koofers, and if not, spread the word. The more students using Koofers.com, the more useful the site is to everyone.
While you’re at it, why not check to see if there is a campus rep position available at your school?
Share Your Experience
Have you used Koofers.com before? If so, what do you think of it? Share your experience in the comments below.
James
It may be useful and students may do it anyways, but sharing tests is cheating whether its online or not. That’s professors’ work they are ripping off. Do you have to obtain professor permission for this?
Dan Northern
If a professor lets you keep a test, I would assume it is then yours, and you can share it with others. Not sure though. Koofers has an Academic Integrity page where you can check this out further.
Groups have been going this for a long time now, and as far as I know, Universities have done little to stop it.
JR
Permanently returned materials are generally fair game for sharing & studying. The Auburn policy is one example of many, but clearly states:
Student Academic Honesty Code
CHAPTER 1201 Violations:
3. selling, giving, lending, or otherwise furnishing to any other person any material which can be shown to contain the questions or answers to any examination scheduled to be given at some subsequent date in any course of study, EXCLUDING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FROM TESTS PREVIOUSLY ADMINISTERED AND RETURNED TO A STUDENT BY THE INSTRUCTOR;