# StudyBlue Reviews **Vendor:** Chegg **Category:** [Study Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/study-tools) **Average Rating:** 3.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 13 ## About StudyBlue StudyBlue is a collaborative learning ecosystem that empowers more than 7 million people to master any subject. Students can connect with others who are on a similar learning journey through a shared library of more than 250+ million pieces of user-generated content. ## StudyBlue Reviews ### 1. Not perfect, but a helpful study tool for classes with a lot of new vocabulary **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2017 **What do you like best about StudyBlue?** It's easy to get started using StudyBlue and to help students find our class. I love that I can create flash cards including multimedia instead of just text. **What do you dislike about StudyBlue?** I hate sending students to yet another tool where they need to create an account and sign in. Thankfully, this tool allows students to login using an existing Google account, and we use Google Apps for Education at our university. **Recommendations to others considering StudyBlue:** StudyBlue is a great addition to my online classroom where students often encounter more challenges motivating themselves to study or collaborating to create materials for study. I love that there are options for mobile users, too, since most of my students use mobile devices to connect to our online class every week. Rote memorization isn't the same thing as learning, so I don't recommend using this tool as a stand-alone solution. But it is an excellent tool for a modern student's arsenal. **What problems is StudyBlue solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's an inexpensive classroom supplement that I can customize to my students' particular needs. ### 2. Robust study tool with great crowd sourced resources **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2018 **What do you like best about StudyBlue?** The flashcards feature has come in handy several times when studying for undergrad and graduate courses, presentations, and projects. It is a great collaborative tool when looking for new ways to create study tools. **What do you dislike about StudyBlue?** I feel the user interface could be updated and look more polished/responsive. Some menus are a static list on desktop. Others menus more robust such as on iPhone/mobile. However, this doesn't take away from the usefulness of the tool. **Recommendations to others considering StudyBlue:** Explore the tools fully and give yourself time to learn how things work to take full advantage of StudyBlue. **What problems is StudyBlue solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is worthwhile to integrate into classrooms/curriculum given the effort to onboard and get access to technology. ### 3. Tremendous resource **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hayley C. | Regional Recruiter, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2017 **What do you like best about StudyBlue?** I like that StudyBlue provides quick and useful information for any class you may be taking. **What do you dislike about StudyBlue?** There is truly nothing I dislike about the StudyBlue program. **Recommendations to others considering StudyBlue:** I highly recommend using StudyBlue for additional study materials. You can easily search specific classes and get extra study resources all in one place. StudyBlue has helped me not only earn higher grades in courses, but to truly understand the material I'm learning and use in the real world. I access this program frequently. It has been extremely beneficial for me to get real resources from real students. **What problems is StudyBlue solving and how is that benefiting you?** StudyBlue is extremely helpful in aiding additional study materials for my more challenging courses. ### 4. Making Studying More Collaborative **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2018 **What do you like best about StudyBlue?** I typically don't like to re-read the same things over and over and I like doing practice questions to make sure that I've understood what I'm studying. When I had extra time, I would use Study Blue for both of these purposes and just to see how the subjects I'm currently studying are taught in other schools/universities. **What do you dislike about StudyBlue?** There's not much to dislike, except of course, the cost for subscribing/making an account. **Recommendations to others considering StudyBlue:** Encourage your classmates to use it too, so you will have a huge pool of study material and can divide the work! **What problems is StudyBlue solving and how is that benefiting you?** I haven't used this for anything business related, as I am the "consumer" of this product in this particular case. Benefits of this platform, however, are that it's easy to collaborate with people from your class and school, and also get the benefit of having others' study materials as resources as well. ### 5. Collaborative, multi-platform digital flashcards **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lisa B. | Social Studies Teacher, Education Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2017 **What do you like best about StudyBlue?** As a teacher, I can see what the students have created to study. As a student, they can share with each other to increase the studying resources. **What do you dislike about StudyBlue?** There are more ads on the website than there used to be. The free version looks like it limits you to a 5 card preview of features, which would not be productive for students. It would especially be frustrating if they put the time into creating the flashcards and then couldn't actually use them. **Recommendations to others considering StudyBlue:** There is both a free and paid version. The paid version is expensive compared to other similar tools, but the free version still offers a lot of benefits. Explore it before paying. **What problems is StudyBlue solving and how is that benefiting you?** StudyBlue provides what it says it does: a studying platform. It allows people to study where they are, with whatever device they have. ### 6. Great tool for class documents. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2017 **What do you like best about StudyBlue?** It pools resources from previous students and can help you study. **What do you dislike about StudyBlue?** The unlocks can be a bit tedious and expensive and finding classes that actually use the platform. **Recommendations to others considering StudyBlue:** Great resource for classes if people in your school use it. Good crowdsourcing platform. **What problems is StudyBlue solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps more with classes than business, but it can provide resources to learn about content. It also has a flash card feature so you can build decks. A business would need to create resources and basically build its own content from the ground up for its employees to use. Where study blue does shine is its crowdsourcing features, so if other employees have additional resources or items they found helpful, the platform is a great sharing tool for that. ### 7. As a grad student **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2018 **What do you like best about StudyBlue?** Easy to navigate, great collaboration between computer and mobile phone **What do you dislike about StudyBlue?** No way to change private profile to public **What problems is StudyBlue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used to provide resources for students while I was a teaching assistant. This is a helpful study tool with a good mobile platform ### 8. Convenient Study Software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2017 **What do you like best about StudyBlue?** It's very straightforward and easy to use **What do you dislike about StudyBlue?** I wish it had more functionality. It can be hard to get the notecards to look how you want them to look. **Recommendations to others considering StudyBlue:** It won't give you a ton of functionality, but it will meet basic needs and is very user friendly! **What problems is StudyBlue solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes it very easy to create and share study materials. ### 9. Got this for school. **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2018 **What do you like best about StudyBlue?** The concept is good. Having information available allows for quick studying and preparation to answer advisor's questions and research tasks. **What do you dislike about StudyBlue?** Wanted complex mathematics flashcards for retention, but the flashcards available were very basic. **Recommendations to others considering StudyBlue:** Be sure that the information you want is available before getting it. Find someone with the application prior to investing yourself. **What problems is StudyBlue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Memory recall is important when working through research projects effectively. Need upper-level flashcards to promote better studying skills and accelerate learning. ### 10. simple flash card platform **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2017 **What do you like best about StudyBlue?** it is easy to use (barely any learning curve). Finding other public card sets from similar classes is easy. **What do you dislike about StudyBlue?** adding images can be difficult at times. **Recommendations to others considering StudyBlue:** It is definitely an easy plat form to use if you are not tech savvy. Also, the paid features are even more useful, but not necessary to get a good experience. **What problems is StudyBlue solving and how is that benefiting you?** educational benefits for helping students. ### 11. Not really impressed. **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2018 **What do you like best about StudyBlue?** To be honest, did not really find it user friendly or useful - did not really enjoy anything from it or find it useful. **What do you dislike about StudyBlue?** Not really user friendly at all. Unbearable to use. **Recommendations to others considering StudyBlue:** Stay away. Unbearable to use. Not user friendly. Expensive. Not much to learn from. **What problems is StudyBlue solving and how is that benefiting you?** None. Discontinued use with StudyBlue. Did not add to my knowledge. ### 12. Great tool to use on the go without the clutter of notecards **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Practice | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2018 **What do you like best about StudyBlue?** Keeps me organized so I don't have to carry around notes. Can take my studying anywhere and any time **What do you dislike about StudyBlue?** I wish it was free to access others decks or preview them more before purchasing **What problems is StudyBlue solving and how is that benefiting you?** Passing board exams and studying on the go without the clutter of notecards ### 13. Average study organization site **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2017 **What do you like best about StudyBlue?** Makes students take responsibility for their material **What do you dislike about StudyBlue?** Not at all innovative. 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