You learn more with other people.
Studying alongside coursemates helps you understand deeper, spot what you've missed, and stay motivated. Desk is built to make that the default, not the exception.
You learn it twice.
Explaining a concept to a coursemate forces you to organise it in your own words. The moment you teach it, you understand it far more deeply than reading it alone.
You spot your blind spots.
Comparing notes and answers surfaces the gaps you'd never notice on your own — where your understanding is shakier than you thought, and where a coursemate can fill you in.
You actually keep going.
Studying with other people keeps you accountable and motivated. Shared deadlines and a group counting on you make it far easier to show up than going it alone.
“Students who learn in small groups score, on average, in the 70th percentile — those who study alone, the 50th.”— Johnson & Johnson, cooperative-learning research
Your coursemates, a message away.
The moment you add your course and modules, Desk drops you straight into the group chat for each one. Alongside that, use normal chat for private instant messaging with coursemates — or start your own group chat for a study group of your choosing.
Built for study groups.
Create a shared space for a class with the classmates you invite: co-write notes together in real time with live cursors and @tags, pool notes and materials, share access to an AI chatbot, build task lists and assign work to one another, and sit shared quizzes to test what the group knows. Nobody joins until they accept.
Jess is editing the shared notes — live.
Built for group projects.
Create a shared space scoped to one assessment or group project: co-write notes together in real time with live cursors and @tags, pool notes and materials, share access to an AI chatbot, build task lists and assign work to one another, and sit shared quizzes together. Access is by invite only, once accepted.
Built for discussion.
A shared feed for your subject that reaches beyond your own campus — connecting you with students studying the same thing at universities all over the world. See what they're reading, jump into the debates they've started, and post a question for a global cohort to weigh in on. The conversations that usually stop at the seminar door — now open to everyone studying your subject, anywhere.
Feed is on the roadmap and not yet available at launch.