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Discover notes across cohorts

Some of the best resources for a course were made by students who took it last year. The Notes across cohorts view gathers every shared note for a course you can see — this year's and earlier — grouped by cohort, so a great summary from a past year surfaces without you having to track down whoever wrote it.

Before you start

A note appears here only if its author left Visible across cohorts on when sharing it (it's on by default for class groups). Cohorts are scoped to your school — notes never cross between schools.

  1. Open Resources, then click Shared resources in the left panel.

  2. Filter the list by the course you're interested in, then click Browse notes across cohorts.

  3. The Notes across cohorts page opens, with a section per cohort headed Class of its year. The most useful notes sit at the top of each section.

    Screenshot coming soon
    The Notes across cohorts page with a section per cohort headed Class of its year, most-useful notes first
    Capture spec (for maintainers)
    {
  "id": "web.notes-and-resources.discover-notes-across-cohorts.cohort-list",
  "platform": "web",
  "route": "/resources/activities/{activityId}/shared-notes",
  "actions": [
    {
      "waitFor": {
        "testId": "shared-notes-activity-list"
      }
    }
  ],
  "clip": {
    "testId": "shared-notes-activity-list",
    "pad": 0
  }
}

  4. Click any note to open it, just like in the main list.

tip

Sharing something you'd have loved to find yourself? Keep Visible across cohorts on when you share it — see Quick-capture a resource — and it becomes part of next year's class's discovery view.