{"id":17320,"date":"2021-02-03T01:42:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T09:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=17320"},"modified":"2021-02-03T01:42:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T09:42:11","slug":"western-launches-new-study-group-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/western-launches-new-study-group-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Western launches new study group app"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Western has expanded its online academic support network through an app called CircleIn<\/em><\/p>\n

Sydney Carpenter<\/strong> | News Editor<\/span><\/p>\n

Western has announced their new partnership with an established educational support app known as CircleIn.<\/span><\/p>\n

Founded in 2017 by Chief Executive Officer Gerald Meggett Jr., CircleIn was originally created to address the discrepancies in college graduation statistics for African American males and minorities across the country. However, the app is useful to all students pursuing higher education, according to an article written by Meggett.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last spring, Western surveyed students about the challenges they are facing in online school.\u00a0 Following up, Western reached out to CircleIn after original contact had been established in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCircleIn automatically connects students with their classmates so they can form study groups, share useful materials and ask questions,\u201d said Dean of Library and Academic Innovation Chelle Batchelor.<\/span><\/p>\n

The app provides students with study tools to manage their workload, prioritize assignments and keep organized. After students log in to the app, they are provided with four color coded rectangles labeled \u201coverdue,\u201d \u201cupcoming,\u201d \u201cin progress\u201d and \u201cdone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo help with motivation, CircleIn is gamified,\u201d said Batchelor, \u201cwhich means that as students complete various tasks and activities in CircleIn, they can earn points for rewards such as gift cards and scholarships.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In the app, students can select from 26 major brands to earn rewards for, including Target, Spotify, Taco Bell and Starbucks.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI already made $10,\u201d said junior education major Elijah Thompson.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prior to CircleIn, Thompson used to write assignments down as a reminder, and now the app CircleIn rewards the behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy printer just ran out of ink and now I might be able to afford more,\u201d said Thompson.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to a virtual planner, CircleIn automatically syncs to a student\u2019s schedule to form study groups for all who are in the class. Batchelor stated that Western is currently exploring the idea of adding tutors within the group to provide additional support for online learning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Students interested in the CircleIn app can download it on their phones or go to the website <\/span>circleinapp.com<\/span><\/a> and access the services with no paid membership required.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Contact the author at scarpenter18@mail.wou.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Western has expanded its online academic support network through an app called CircleIn<\/p>\n

Sydney Carpenter | News Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":17290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[650,143,569,538,164,146,145,418,39],"class_list":["post-17320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-circlein","tag-news","tag-online","tag-online-school","tag-study","tag-sydney","tag-sydney-carpenter","tag-tech","tag-wou"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}