Q: What is UniversityLyfe?
A: UniversityLyfe is an interactive online publication. Look at us like a magazine with local news, events, directories of local businesses, student organizations, nonprofit organizations, sports teams, and Greek organizations - just like a traditional magazine. However we also stream content added by organizations registered in our network as well as provide event coverage, and highlight popular news that people comment on.
As a Student whether you are in College or High School you can use UniversityLyfe to interact with your friends through our social-network, just like on Facebook; we offer a variety of more features though such as Personal Calendars for maintaining your schedule, Projects, and Courses - interactive pages you can create and invite friends to contribute to the Projects' goal or discuss things going on in your classes - among many other uses.
UniversityLyfe is what you make it, hence the concept for the name "Your University Life", or in other words, YOU put the Y in Lyfe.
Q: How does it work?
A: Once you register for an account you can immediately start using all of the features and services for free. The Help Center (which you are currently at if you are reading this) provides quick tutorials on how to use the many feature-sets. The best way to learn how to use UniversityLyfe is play around with it!
Q: How do I navigate my account?
A: UniversityLyfe has a very simple and easy to navigate interface. Depending on your accout type this interface may vary slighlty with different menu options and terminology.
Account Types
- Members are classified as either enrolled or not enrolled in a College/University.
- Organizations consist of General Non-Profit, Student, Greek Fraternities, Greek Sororities, and Sports Teams.
- Businesses are classified as Places.
Account Structure: Members
- Desktop: Your home page
- Profile: Your friends can interact here
- Community: The college you attend or live closest to
Account Structure: Business/Organization
- Desktop: Your home page
- Fan Page: Your fans or members (orgs only) interact here
- Community: The closest/main particpant-customer base you serve (i.e. if there is a major university and a community college in your area, the university should be your default community)
UniversityLyfe Toolbar
The toolbar featured here is from a General Members' account.
- Easily navigate to your Desktop, Profile, Default Community, Account Settings, the Help Center, or Log Off. Clicking Feedback will let you email our Support team.
- The orange RSS icon alerts you of any notifications such as an Invitation, Suggestion, or Comment Approval.
- The mail icon will redirect you to your mailbox and will alert you (shown here) when and how many new messages you have.
- The calendar icon will redirect you to your Personal Calendar and you can drag and drop calendar events onto the calendar icon to RSVP for them and add them to your Personal Calendar.
- The Explore menu navigates you to all your accounts features where you can manage things like Friends, Photos, Documents, Projects, etc...
- The Shortcuts menu allows you to quickly add content to your account
- Enter a query into the search bar and search anything from People to Events.
*Most websites support our intersite browsing feature, which allows you to navigate other websites within the UniversityLyfe Toolbar so that you can quickly jump back and forth when you have new messages and notifications!
Q: How do I use the Help Center?
A: Using our Help Center is really simple - look for the keyword in your question or what you are trying to do in the Category Menu to the left and then look for the answer within the list of questions (FAQs)... Questions are answered with a tutorial basically or the information you desire. There are three main types of "answers" to a "question", for instance:
How-To's
If you want to know how-to add events to your Personal Calendar, click on the Calendar category then click on "How do I add events to my Calendar?", this will explain ALL the different ways you can do so.
Functionality
If you wanted to know what document types you can upload to your Documents folders, click on the Document category then click on "What type of documents does UniversityLyfe support?"
Can I's
If you could not figure out something, check for a "Can I" question under a topic. For instance - "Can I message someone a document?" Go to the Documents section and look for such a Question/Answer.
Q: What browsers are supported?
A: UniversityLyfe is designed to be used in the following browsers:
- Internet Explorer 8+
- Mozilla FireFox 3+
- Safari 4+
- Google Chrome
*Most Smartphone Mobile Devices support UniversityLyfe (Android, Blackberry, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) HOWEVER please note that our Drag & Drop Calendar functions are still in BETA and may not work on ALL mobile platforms!
Q: Finding Your School
A: Finding your school is easy as typing the name in and selecting it from a drop down list. If your school does not load in the list of school's then no one has created a Community for it yet - once you register UniversityLyfe automatically will create a new Community.
1. Begin typing the name of your school, then wait for the loading icon to appear after you have finished typing the FULL name of the school. Once the list loads the icon will disappear and you can proceed to step 2. This normally only takes a second or two from the last keystroke.
2. A list of schools that match the text you entered will load - click on that school.
3. Once the list disappears and your school is in the text field, click Go.
4. You will be redirected to your schools' publication home page
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