StudyMate Campus for Learners

StudyMate helps you create and use flashcards, self-assessments, and learning games to review course material. If this is enabled in your course, you will find it in your "course navigation." This tutorial will show you how to:

• Access StudyMate in Canvas
• Create and use study activities
• Track your progress

Start a New Project

Each set of definitions, games, or flashcards is contained in "Projects". To create a new project:

1. Select Create New Project 
2. Provide a name for your project
3. Provide a description. You and the course participants will identify the activity by these are the identifying factors. 
4. When you're finished, select Save

Edit a StudyMate Project

When you're working on your StudyMate project, you can add three types of content: Facts, Definitions, and Questions. You can enter the information manually or import it from an external source. Depending on the type of content you add, you will get different activity options, providing participants with a variety of study options. To add content, simply click on the "Edit" button located next to your project.

Add Facts to a Project

Facts represent objective information about the content you want to cover. Activities that course participants can use with Facts are:

• Fact Cards.
• Fact Cards Plus.
• 'Show All' Flashcards

Within the editing menu of a project:

1. Select the Facts tab and choose Add Fact.
2. Enter the fact. 
   • You may include a photo by using the camera icon.
   • You may associate your fact with a topic by using the Add Topic option.

Add Definitions to a Project

Definitions typically clarify the essential characteristics or features of the thing being defined, helping course participants understand its nature or purpose. Activities that course participants can use with Definitions are:

• Flash Cards.
• Fill-in-the-Blank.
• Matching.
• Pick a Letter.
• Crosswords.
• Glossary.
• 'Show All' Flashcards.

Within the editing menu of a project:

1. Select the Definitions tab and click Add Definition.
2. Enter a term for your definition.
3. Define your Term.
4. Save or Add More to your definition.

Add Questions to a Project

Questions allow you to add one or more incorrect or correct variations on a term or topic. This may be beneficial for participants to truly understand how to distinguish the topic from near-identical terms or definitions. Activities that course participants can use with Questions are:

• Quizzes.
• Challenges (Jeprody-like study activity).
• 'Show All' Flashcards.

Within the editing menu of a project:

1. 1. Select Add Question.
   2. Provide your Question.
   3. Enter either multiple-choice or single-answer choices for your question.
      1. You may include a photo by using the camera icon.
      2. You may associate your fact with a topic by using the Add Topic option.
   4. Save or choose to "Add More" to your Question.

Study with StudyMate Project

1. Open StudyMate (course navigation) from within your course

2. Click "Continue to StudyMate"

3. Locate and click on the project you want to study. 

Note: If it is a project created by your instructor it will be at the top and you just need to click on the name. If it is a project created by you, you will need to click the Study button on the right. 

4. Use the various studying tools to review the content within the project. 

Share StudyMate Project with others

Once you've organized your project content, you can share it with students via a URL or the StudyMate Canvas menu. If you choose the URL, students will participate anonymously, and you won’t be able to track usage. To track participation, it's recommended to use the 'Make Available in Course' option.

Sharing a Project with a URL

1. Open the StudyMate menu.
2. Select the arrow icon next to 'Study'.
3. Select Share.
4. Select 'Copy URL' or choose 'Send via Email'.