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Important!!!
Due to screen size constrain, some of the features described in this document are not supported on mobile devices. To get a complete experience of the product try accessing it using a regular laptop/desktop.

I. What You See When You Sign In

The Dashboard
1. Use the icon, next to your name, to manage your profile settings. You can update your name, password and profile picture here.
2. Use the search bar to search for theories that you want to add to your bookshelf. Refer to this section to know more about customizing your bookshelf.
3. Go to the section to practice previous years' question papers of well known Olympiads and other exams like JEE.
4. Once you have completed your study session, use the icon to sign out from your account. As a good security practice, do not close the browser or leave the computer without signing out from your account.

II. Customizing Your BookShelf

The Theory Bookshelf
1. The theory bookshelf appears on the top of the page as shown here.
2. Theories are organised topic-wise. The shelf display bar shows the current category.
3. You can use the mouse scroll wheel or the keyboard arrow keys to navigate through the bookshelf content.
  For touch enabled devices just swipe accross the bookshelf to browse through it.
4. You can also use the , , , buttons on the bookshelf display to navigate through the shelf content.
  The , buttons will take you to the next or previous book while the , buttons will take you to the previous or next topic.
5. Clicking on any of the books will open the book for reading.
Adding Theory/Concepts To Your Bookshelf
1. Search for the theory you are looking for using the search bar.
2. If the searched theory is not present in your bookshelf, the will appear on the cover page of the book. Use this button to add the theory to your bookshelf.
3. If the searched theory is already present in your bookshelf, you will see on the cover page instead. Use this button to remove the theories you have completed.

III. Using The Theory Booklet

The Theory Booklet
1. You can refer to a theory booklet by clicking on the booklet on your bookshelf or a search result.
2. The booklet can be opened by clicking the top/bottom right corner of the booklet or by clicking the button in the toolbar below the booklet.
Active Widgets In The Booklet
1. Wherever applicable, the booklet contains interactive widgets which you can try and experiment with. A widget is marked with the icon on the top.
2. Click the icon to maximize the widget to full screen mode, and the icon to know more about how to use the widget.
3. You can access this example booklet right now to get a feel of these widgets by clicking here.
Automated Rapid Practice In The Booklet
1. For relevant topics, the booklet provides you with in-theory rapid practice feature. These are auto-generated questions to help you pick up calculation speed.
2. These are not included in your final performance statistics.
3. You can view a sample of such a practice feature for computing determinants of matrices by clicking here.
Planning Your Revisions
1. After completing each theory, you should plan your revision at a suitable interval. You can do this using the scheduler provided on the inside front cover of each booklet.
2. It is recommended that for complex topics you plan several revisions, each with an increasing period of gap. This helps your retention of the topic.
3. You can schedule a revision of a topic by opening the topic and selecting a suitable date in the schedular.
4. Then you can set the reminder by turning on the knob and then clicking the button.

IV. Creating & Managing Your Personal Notes

Taking And Managing Notes
1. Taking notes while studying is one of the most powerful aspects of learning. You can use the smartboard to take your personal notes in an easy-to-organize manner.
2. For taking handwritten notes, a touchscreen laptop/tablet or digital writing pad with a pen is recommended.
3. While reading a theory booklet, you can use the button in the booklet toolbar to activate the built-in smartboard.
4. Use the various controls on the top of the smartboard to create your notes. Once you have created your notes, you can use the button on the whiteboard toolbar to save these notes.
5. The notes you create are saved on a per-theory basis. Whenever you open a theory booklet next, you can retrieve your notes using the button on the whiteboard toolbar to access these notes.

VI. Organising Live Group Activities

What Is A Group Activity
1. A live group activity is where each of the participants sign in at the same time and compete in the same activity. During the activity each student can see the progress made by all other participants. At the end of the group activity, each participant can view how the others performed in terms of time and accuracy.
2. Every student can form atmost 3 groups. Each group can contain a maximum of 12 members.
3. To be able to form or join a group, a verified student email address is required. All group activity related communications are sent to this email address.
4. Once your email validation process is complete, you can create a new group using the button, which appears on your dashboard.
5. Summaries of all the groups you have created or joined appear in the Group Activities section like:
  Clicking the name of any group will open the Group Manage section, where you can invite friends or schedule group activities.
Setting Up A Group Activity
1. Click the button to show the activity setup menu.
2. Use the dropdown to select the number of questions for the group activity.
3. Use the calendar control to select the date and time of the the activity.
4. All members of the group are automatically sent the invitation for the activity.
5. Additionally, you can invite guest participants for an individual activity by entering the email addresses and names of the participants. A group activity can have atmost 12 participants including regular group members and invited guests.
6. Once you have completed selecting your guest invitees, and setting up the date/time for the group activity click the button to complete setting up the group activity.
Participating In A Group Activity
1. To participate in a group activity, sign-in to your account at least 5 mins before the scheduled exam time.
2. Guest participants can join the activity by using the OTP sent to their email address.
3. Once you have signed in to your group activity, your activity starts automatically at the scheduled time.
4. During the activity you will be able to see the progress made by other participants. You will be shown how many questions they have attempted so far, but you will not be able to see whether these are correct or incorrect attempts.
5. Once you have submitted your own paper you will be shown a graph containing your result. You will also be able to view the performance of all those who have submitted their papers.
6. As other participants keep submitting their papers the performance graph will be updated with their submissions.
7. Once you have submitted your group activity paper, you are shown a chat window, which you can use to discuss various problems/solutions with the other participants of the activity.
8. To leave the group activity click the button.
Interpreting Group Activity Result
1. After all participants have submitted their group activity papers, each will receive a detailed comparitive analysis of the group activity performance.
2. For each question, you will be able to see the following data:
  - How many of your friends got the problem correct
  - How much time you took for the problem.
  - What was the minimum time amongst all correct attempts of the problem in the group.
  - What was the average time for all correct attempts of that problem.

VI. Interpreting & Improving Your Performance

Viewing Your Performance
1. You can track your performance for a selected time period of your choice. This performance is shown to you in the form of a pie-chart. You can view these charts on a per-topic basis, which allows you to focus on topics that you are less strong than you would like to be.
2. Use Select-Period dropdown to select a suitable period of time for which you want to view your performance.
3. Each pie-chart shows your performance in a particular topic. The green slice shows the number and percentage of correct attempts, the red slice shows the number of incorrect attempts and the gray slice shows the number of problems you did not attempt.
4. Clicking any of these slices shows the details of your attempts for each of these topics.
5. Clicking the Quick Revision button will allow you to attempt a set of questions for the particular topic.