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What students ask us before they sign up.
Is the toolkit really free?
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What do I actually get?
A searchable library on this site. Each entry tells you what the resource is, the questions it answers, and where it opens: a Google Doc you copy into your own Drive, a YouTube tutorial, or one of our written guides. You can browse by type or search for the thing you are stuck on.
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Can I share it with my classmates?
Please do, by sending them to this page. The library unlocks in the browser you signed up from, so a link straight into it will ask a friend to sign up first. That takes a moment and means they get their own access rather than borrowing yours.
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