Friday, October 23, 2009

Freetestbank.com Adds Facebook Connect

New website to study better and learn more. The website using facebook connect to connect student's facebook account and sign in people to the website. Students can add there course's exams to freetestbank.com and download other students' exams. A list of professors are listed for the college your attending and the exams they come up with. Hopefully, they add prizes to the website

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Downloading Files From StudyBlue.com Without Premium Service

You can’t download notes, then use print screen option to download pages from studyblue.com to print them out. I understand this method will take a while, but its the way to go instead of paying for premium service.

When you are looking at a file, press screen icon by the StudyPaper logo on to the top right of the file window. After opening the file in full screen, then center the info you want to print by using the zoom from + and - and using your scroller.

Here's How:

o Print Screen Options for Mac
• Capture Entire Screen to File
1. Command + Shift + 3
2. Saves Entire Screen as a File on Desktop
• Capture Entire Screen to Clipboard
1. Command + Control + Shift + 3
2. Captures Entire Screen and Copies Screen to the Clipboard
• Capture Selection to File
1. Command + Shift + 4
2. Cursor Changes to Crosshairs
3. Use the Crosshairs to Capture the Dragged Area
4. Dragged Area is Saved as a File
• Capture Selection to Clipboard
1. Command + Control + Shift + 4
2. Cursor Changes to Crosshairs
3. Use the Crosshairs to Capture the Dragged Area
4. Dragged Area is Copied to the Clipboard

o Print Screen Option for Windows
• Capture Current Active Window
1. Capture by Holding Down ALT + Print Scrn
2. Open MS Word, MS Photo Editor, or Adobe PhotoShop.
3. Paste Current Active Window by Holding Down CTRL + V
4. Save the File
• Capture Entire Screen
1. Capture Entire Screen By Print Scrn
2. Open MS Word, MS Photo Editor, or Adobe PhotoShop.
3. Paste Current Active Window by Holding Down CTRL + V
4. Save the File

Then you can print the file......Good Luck!!!

StudyBlue.com Showing It's Green

StudyBlue.com users used 3 million flashcards and 2 million pages of notes, which helped saved 10 thousand reams of paper or an acre of trees from being destroyed.

Nice Job StudyBlue

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Changes to Wisecampus.com

Logo
Isleptthroughclass.com logo now containes "wisecampus.com" and "Previously isleptthroughclass.com"

Support
Now wisecampus.com has live chat support along with a phone number to call for added support (Chat can be live during certain hours and then users can leave a message when no one is available)

Video
A brand new wisecampus.com video can be watched

Profile Page
No new changes yet, but VIP members do get a gold badge ("VIP" in a gold circle) under there photo and name

Blog Page
The blog is now divided into 5 categories (Homework Help, In the News, Slept Site, Student Life, Study Group Set Ups)

Points
No point changes yet, but hopefully there are more ways to gain points.

Reward Catalog
A VIP Section in the reward catalog has formed for VIP members. Currently four rewards are available in the VIP section. $5 paypal gift card for 4500 points, $10 paypal gift card for 8500 points, $25 paypal gift card for 19000 points, and a $25 starbucks gift card for 19000 points.

StudyBlue.com's Fall 2009 Reward Program

StudyBlue's Royal Blue Program

Royal Blue Program gives users that use quality files to give crowns to the student that uploaded the file. Everyone can see the number of crowns you have earned and will show your royal status. There is also a leaderboard for your school and the entire StudyBlue.com network. The crowns are different for the number of users that find the quality files valuable. The student earns 1 crown for every 3 users that find the quality file valuable [3 or 4 stars] . Crown chart shows different crowns for 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 50, 100, and 500. The top 3 students in each school earn $100 at the end of the semester.

Fall 2009 Jump Start Rewards Program

Incentive for students to share study material and invite friends to the site. The limit for each student this semester is 300 dollars. There is a weekly limit on the amount of money the school users can earn, so at the end of the week the amount of money in the weekly cash pot is low. For every 3 classmates giving positive rating [3 or 4 stars] or earning 1 crown gives $0.50. An online that has auto-generated flashcard decks earns double bonus. There is a limit to the number of bonus per note or deck, which is 2 Bonuses. No content limit. Referrals for classmates earn you $1.00, but an extra $1.00 is also given if the classmate converts to Premium Services within 48 hours. Invite friends using your code through flyers and email. The balance can be cashed out when the student reaches $25.00 and it takes up to 15 business days for completion of Paypal transfer.

There are specific criteria for both programs:
1. Must attend one of these schools:
Arizona State University – Tempe, Belmont University, Brown University, Cornell University, Duke University, Illinois State University, Iowa State University, Marquette University, Michigan State University, Middle Tennessee State University, Ohio State University – All Campuses, Rutgers University – New Brunswick/Piscataway, Stanford University, Tennessee State University, University of Alabama – Tuscaloosa, University of Georgia,  University of Iowa, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, University of Tennessee – Chattanooga, University of Tennessee – Knoxville, University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Vanderbilt University, University of California – Berkeley, University of Washington – Seattle Campus, Pennsylvania State University – All Campuses, University of Arizona, Texas Tech University, University of Colorado-Boulder, Kansas State University, Syracuse University

2. Positive rating from a classmate. What's a classmate defined by:
A. User enrolled in same school as the student receiving rating.
B. User enrolled in the course the quality file is part of.
C. User has to have the same course in the StudyBlue.com profile when he or she rates the file.
D. The rating must be the first and only for the user for that file.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Isleptthroughclass.com Transfers Users to Wisecampus.com with VIP Program

Isleptthroughclass.com is finished as every user is being transfered to wisecampus.com.

Wisecampus.com has a VIP program for students that pay an annual fee of $9.95 to get special features and better recognition to the staff and classmates. VIP program has a reward catalog giving special amount of points for paypal transfers. (Probably lower points compared to regular members) VIP members have unlimited note requests, complete access and ability to get email alerts for notes.

I think the idea toward paying programs is the result of the slow economy and price of ads being down. Small ads can't pay for big sites like these, so no more big rewards for notes. I think this is going to lead to users leaving the site for better note sharing websites.

Monday, August 31, 2009

Wisecampus.com has a VIP Section in the Reward Catalog

After looking at the rewards catalog at wisecampus.com, I noticed a VIP section in-addition to the 4500 points, 8500 points, and 19000 points categories when comparing the reward catalog to isleptthroughclass.com. I hope they have some great prizes to give out like monthly prizes or most points during the year.

ShareNotes.com Users Fraudulently Acquiring Points

Some users on sharenotes.com have been acquiring points fraudulently and all users could lose the ipod giveaway due to the fraud. The site is asking all users to stop the fraud immediately or the site could possibly run out of money and be abandoned. The site is working on the fraud, probably to find the suspects involved and try to set things straight. The site will change because the fraud has taken a heavy toll on the site. The site is asking anyone to contact site administrators for any information on the fraud.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Koofers.com Site Preview

1. Koofers.com connects yourself with other peers in the courses as well as similar courses around the United States
2. Create and share course materials including study guides, exams, syllabus, etc.
3. Create and study interactive flashcards with Wiki suggest, which can import information from wikipedia. Flashcard decks can be private for 30 days, then the deck probably becomes public.
4. Instructor and course ratings plus detailed word ratings and grade distributions
5. Professor Rating with Five Star Ratings on Knowledge, Enthusiasm, Preparation, Communication, Fairness, Availability and Overall.
6. Professor Rating on difficulty and number of exams, difficulty and number of projects, difficulty and number of quizzes/pop quizzes, difficulty and frequency of homework, and how much homework is graded, how much of a grade curve?, how much extra credit?, and how much of the book is used in the course?
7. A schedule maker to view your schedule and create the perfect schedule for yourself.

ShareNotes.com Getting Ready to Giveaway a MacBook Air

ShareNotes.com is coming out with a Back to School Raffle to giveaway a MacBook Air. Few details for now, but once the first week of September goes by, the site will be filled with users that want to win the MacBook Air. A small info box on the home-page shows the upcoming promotion.

Good Luck to All

Founder of Isleptthroughclass.com/Wisecampus.com's Success Story

Ryan Sapp is the founder of islepthroughclass.com and the new site called wisecampus.com. Ryan Sapp is looking for anyone to do a story on the website for publicity. Based on the forum, wisecampus.com has 25,500 colleges students with a possible growth to 18 million college students.

Ryan Sapp's success story started at age 14 with his first business and then started investing in the stock market at age 16 by selling his car. Sapp then used the money from the stock to buy his first house. Currently, Sapp is 22 and the owner of islepthroughclass.com/wisecampus.com and rsapp leasing. Apparently, Ryan Sapp is in the running for Global Student Entrepreneur Award.

What a great success story and a I hope Ryan Sapp's success continues with the site and future endeavors.

Wisecampus.com is Accessible After Being Unavailable for Couple Weeks

Wisecampus.com was inaccessible for a couple of weeks probably of updates on the site. When I typed wisecampus.com into url bar, the site would reroute to islepthroughclass.com. Today the site went straight to wisecampus.com and the home-page had the new video about wisecampus.com.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

List of Note Sharing Websites Giving Away Rewards

1. Isleptthroughclass.com / Wisecampus.com
2. Sharenotes.com
3. Knetwit.com
4. Gradeguru.com
5. Studyblue.com
6. Freetestbank.com - Login and earn points for chance at monthly prizes (Available Soon)
7. Makeupnotes.com - Launched in August 2009 and giving away $500 for student that registers and verifies email address by September 30, 2009

One of the Reasons Why Isleptthroughclass.com Is Changing the Site Name

Isleptthroughclass.com is becoming wisecampus.com after the site was disqualified (unfairly) from University of Dayton Business Competition for the "connotation of its name." Isleptthroughclass.com was among 5 finalists for a $15,000 prize when the site was disqualified in January because it conflicted with University of Dayton's values.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

StudyBlue.com Study on College Students by SurveyU

StudyBlue.com wanted to conduct a survey in-order to meet the demands of both high school and college students. SurveyU conducted the survey for StudyBlue.com. Study shows that college students are 60% likely to spend 3 or more hours studying online while 26% likely to spend time on social networks like facebook.com and twitter.com. The study also proved that 84% of college students were helped by the Internet and 54% of college students plan to spend more time compared to last year. I would have come to the same conclusion before the survey.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Koofers.com Goes National

Koofers.com is expanding nationally after starting at Virginia Tech and spreading to surrounding colleges. Sign up for great new features like average grade received by students and professor evaulations by students. Other neat features include how many times the professor uses the book, if the professor gives extra credit and other things. Hopefully the site has a reward program in the works.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Wisecampus.com Opening Video

I found this opening video for wisecampus.com on youtube.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v23yexmiQoY

I watched it once and found some interesting stuff in the video.

Isleptthroughclass.com and Wisecampus.com Upgrade Caused Site Downtime

Both isleptthroughclass.com and wisecampus.com were unavailable over the weekend due to upgrades made to both sites. The sites went back up Monday morning, but the sites didn’t have any new features.

Hopefully wisecampus.com will be ready soon, but I was hoping that they announce the new features. Confusion has risen because of the two sites among users.

StudyBlue.com Premium Service

StudyBlue.com recently updated the site with new tools and features plus the addition of a premium service for a fee. Premium service is split into monthly service for 9.99 and annual service for 59.99.

StudyBlue.com users are not going to pay for notes, especially when the similar level of service is free everywhere else. I think that free users are going to change to the other note sharing websites. StudyBlue.com may think they have enough course material for students to pay for, but I think only a small percentage of students will pay for the files. Students are just going to upload there content to other note sharing sites, where they can exchange lectures, exams, outlines, presentations, study guides and other forms of media for free. I have figured out a way to download pages of the files without premium service. More on this later.

A brief summary of the new tools and features is described below:
Premium users can now import flashcard decks using excel file and even merge multiple decks into one deck. Premium users can study with flashcards, quizzes and brain games with a study schedule. Premium users get RSS feeds for updates from StudyBlue.com delivered to user’s inbox. Students can now upload multiple files and even record audio and video notes for review later on StudyBlue.com. Files and flashcards are now downloadable and printable for premium members only. The premium service gives iPhone and iPod Touch users a StudyBlue app, which enables college and high school students to access study materials from StudyBlue.com anywhere you go. While walking to class or riding the bus, one can review notes and breeze through flashcards while the app automatically syncs with your StudyBlue.com account. The app enables downloading and reviewing of notes, images, audio and video files. StudyBlue.com users receive text messages to remind users when to study based on the study schedule.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Top 5 Note Sharing Websites with Reward/Prizes

1. Studyblue.com
2. Isleptthroughclass.com
3. Gradeguru.com
4. Sharenotes.com
5. Knetwit.com

1st Post - Introduction

Hello and Welcome to the Blog for Making Money with College Notes.

I have started this blog to provide tips and tricks to making the most money out of the notes one takes in college. I’ll provide a list of note sharing websites along with the pros, cons and the amount of money per note on the websites. I’ll also write blog posts on new features and updates to note sharing websites along with promotions and bonus points going on.

I have made over 2300 dollars in cash, awards and prizes over 6 note sharing websites. I want students to take advantage of the immense amount of resources to get good grades in college. I used the multiple opportunities to pay for food since the beginning of 2009 and shopping for gifts.

I encourage people to leave comments/concerns/advice and to know the agreement/disagreement/anger/excitement/etc. about the issues facing both the users and different note sharing websites.