okay i thought there was already a idea posted which said about sharing notes! so think of somethin dude!

Some schools/communities already have something like this. I know for law school, there are a few sites which have libraries of case briefs (for free) and pay contributors (not much, but real money).

How are you different?

I'd do it.

These sites exist indeed.
Tommy

Well...

I still want it done.

I would want the grade that student got in that class along qith days absent posted next to their notes.

cute but not great!

Hey, if you want it done, it doesn't matter how many sites already do it. Make it the way you want it. If people think yours is better, then they will use yours.

If you build it, they will come. I would use this, but I already know everything.

Please, if you do this, stick to the ethics guidelines you laid out at the start. It is one thing to share notes, quite another to share tests, essays, etc.

And beware. Professors own the IP to the notes they create for their classes, and it would be wrong for students to pass those off as their own.

There is a risk of liability if users don't follow the rules. Hard to say whether the liability would flow through to the site owner. The best protection is probably complete transparency. Note suppliers have to identify themselves in full and verify the originality of their notes.

Even then I think some colleges and universities, and individual professors, might have a problem with the IP being transmitted outside of their actual class.

It would be worth your while to find out the policies of a few of the institutions you have in mind before you start posting stuff.

mabye you could do something like a facebook.com and keep everything in networks

i dunno

i'm gonna revise and reenter it

I believe this was facebook's original business model.

However it is still possible. Go for it!

Like others have said, it's been done, but still lots of room to innovate here. Maybe a very targeted site featuring notes from a specific school, or notes from classes based on specific textbooks? Or maybe a site where the notes from a language class are read by a beautiful French woman? :)

This idea could be quite strong if it had the buy-in of the participating instructors and educational institutions. I.e. package it as a user-generated learning aid and let universities buy it or not, include a template where professors can customize the rules if they so choose.

Or work entirely outside the formal system like Coles Notes (I think they have a different name in the US - the canned versions of Shakespeare's plays, for example).

Then it starts to be like lulu.com - self-publishing.

I think you are on to something. You can strengthen it a lot by incorporating the ethical standards of the universities right from the start.

there might be an interesting play if you made it a facebook app - there's already tons of university/college students who are users so you'd have the traffic already. Plus then you could tie in to the actually school networks that already exist (i.e. show me all notes from University of Calgary Computer Science)

To upload or download notes, you'd have to install the NoteHeaven Facebook application. If you upload notes, you only get paid if somebody downloads your notes.

Just an idea... :)

Keep the ideas comin
mr innes

I like the idea, ut you need to find a way to make your service better than anyone else's. Good Work!

How's this for a slogan: "We Put The 'NOT' in Note"

ahahaha yes!

I like it, mind if I use it?

Can the "Note" be protected? WOnt this be some sort of short cut in doing assingments instead of burning the candle err monitor all night long?

It would be the same as sitting up looking at wikis on the subject all night except the notes are filtered so all the crap information is gone and just the usable info is there.

agree w/ Christine- definitely make it into a Facebook application to tap into their distribution. is this a service that you think students would pay for? if not, how do you monetize it?