Amazingly Useful Website You Never Knew Existed

Docsity is an online Social learning (social pedagogy) network for worldwide students and professionals. Originally launched in 2010 exclusively for Italian students, it became an international website in mid-2012 by opening to worldwide students. It is advertisement-free and user-generated.

Features

• Document sharing: students can share their study notes and all their university-related documents for other students to search, view and download.
• Networking: it help students to meet with other students through friendships, have fun studying, interact on each other's walls and get notifications on friends' activities.
• News and Blogs: students can read various articles on everyday student life and become authors by submitting blog posts.
• Video sharing: students can share and catalog academic videos from YouTube or upload their own videos for other students to view.
• Q & A section: students from around the world can interact and help one another by answering questions and voting others contributions.

Docsity has around 300,000+ study notes shared by students, 400,000+ Questions and Answers, 500+ published articles, 2,000+ academic videos and 500,000+ university students 


 Docsity allows its users to upload, download and share notes (including .doc, .pdf, .ppt and popular image formats). Its question and answer section allows students to ask and answer questions, and to vote, rate and comment on the answers. The video section offers videos catalogued or uploaded by students and can be searched by subject, course and type. The news and blog section contains news articles by university students on numerous topics related to education and everyday student life.


 Docsity is free to use, but in order to increase the users' contributions it has a points management system. Users are awarded points for sharing content and contributing to Docsity. These points are used to download content and gain a reputation on the website.