Notes that answer a question
No blank boxes. Every note answers one specific question in 500 characters or fewer: how the grade is actually earned, what to do in the first two weeks, which resource saved you.
Built for Qatar University students
Choose your courses like someone who’s already taken them.
A private, verified commons for Qatar University students — short, specific notes about the courses your seniors have already finished: the real workload, where the marks actually come from, and what they wish they’d known in week one.
A @qu.edu.qa address is required for a founding place. Only useful updates, and you can unsubscribe from any of them.
The problem
The best advice on campus expires every May.
Course knowledge lives in three places: a senior’s memory, a group chat nobody added you to, and luck. It’s real, it’s specific, it’s worth more than any syllabus — and it vanishes the moment its owner graduates.
“does anyone know how the grading works for this one”
sent 11:47pm — registration closed at midnight
“ask Noor, she took it last term”
Noor graduated
“I’ll send you the details later”
never sent
What’s inside
Written knowledge, not opinions traded.
Everything here is shaped to make a useful note easy to write — and an unkind one hard to even conceive of.
The course fingerprint
Closed, checkable questions answered by tapping and shown as counts, never averages: 9 of 11 said attendance is recorded. Nine of eleven is a fact. 3.7 out of 5 is an opinion wearing a number’s clothes.
Arabic and English, equally
Not a translation layer. Every interface string is written in both languages side by side, every note carries its own language and direction, and counts localise. Neither language is a translation of the other.
How it works
Three steps, then you’re done.
Prove you’re a student
A six-digit code to your university inbox, once. That’s the entire wall — no forms, no approvals, no waiting.
Read before you register
Open any course and read what the people who took it left behind: workload, where the marks sit, resources, what to do in week one.
Leave what you know
Ninety seconds at the end of term, while your memory is still sharp, stocks the shelves for the next cohort.
The founding hundred
One hundred places. Then the door closes.
Atrium opens to its first hundred members before anyone else. Founding members aren’t just early — they set the norms the platform inherits.
The founding offer
A year free,
then 70% off for good.
Course notes stay free for every student, always. When Atrium’s paid tools arrive, founding members get them free for a full year — then keep 70% off the student price for as long as they’re at Qatar University. It is the lowest price Atrium will ever offer, and it is never granted again.
Atrium·الأتريوم
Founding member
No. 001
of 100
atriumuni.com
2026
A printed card carrying your place number, handed to you once your place is confirmed.
- A full year free — every paid tool that launches is free to you for its first year.
- 70% off, locked — the lowest price Atrium offers, for as long as you’re a QU student.
- The founding card — printed, numbered to your place, issued once and never reissued.
- Early access — the full platform before the public launch.
- Your courses built first — tell us what you’re taking and those pages get built ahead of the rest of the catalogue.
- Steward eligibility — founding members are the only ones who can apply to steward, the role that reviews held notes.
How a place is kept
A place is claimed with an email and kept with a contribution.
Atrium is worth nothing empty. So a founding place doesn’t go to whoever signed up first — it goes to whoever writes first. The condition is small, and it’s stated up front rather than sprung on you later.
Claim
Leave your address now and a numbered place is held for you immediately. Nothing else is asked of you today.
Confirm
When Atrium opens, write three notes about courses you’ve already finished, within fourteen days. One completed Debrief counts as all three.
Keep
The pricing, the card and the place become permanently yours. Places left unconfirmed roll on to the next person in the queue.
The terms, in plain words
- Course notes are free for every student, founding member or not. Anything paid, later, will be for extra tools — never for reading.
- The paid tools don’t exist yet. What they include and when they arrive may change. The free year and the 70% will not.
- The discount attaches to you, is not transferable, and lasts while you are a student at Qatar University.
- We email you about Atrium and your founding place, and nothing else. No data sale, no sharing with third parties, and every email can be unsubscribed from.
- Atrium is an independent student project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or speaking for Qatar University.
What Atrium is not
Not a rating site. On purpose.
Atrium helps you prepare for a course. It does not help you judge a person. Every design decision here descends from that one sentence.
No stars, no scores, no leaderboards
There is no rating anywhere in the system. Numbers attached to humans become leaderboards, and leaderboards become the product. The only vote on a note is one-way: Useful. You can help a note rise. You cannot bury one.
Anonymous outside, accountable inside
No note ever displays its author — not a username, not a pseudonym, not an avatar, not “Student #382”. Signup still requires a university inbox, so accounts are real even though names are never shown.
Notes about courses, not people
A note that reads like it’s about a person isn’t blocked — it’s politely interrupted before publishing, with a chance to rephrase. And every note waits a short cooling period before it appears. Anger has a half-life; a genuine tip loses nothing by waiting.
Private by default
Atrium is not indexed by search engines, and nothing meaningful is readable without a verified university account. It isn’t a public forum and was never meant to be.
Questions
The ones you’re about to ask
Who can join?
Any student with an address on the Qatar University mail domain (@qu.edu.qa). Verification is a six-digit code sent to that inbox, valid for fifteen minutes. Other universities come later — serving one campus well beats serving ten badly.
Is it free?
Yes. Founding places are free, and reading and writing are free. No ads, no data sale, no paid tier waiting behind the signup.
Will anyone know I wrote a note?
No student can. No read path in the platform joins notes to accounts for display. To be honest about the limit: that’s an operational promise, not a cryptographic one. The database links notes to accounts, so whoever runs the server could look. We say so plainly, because saying it is part of deserving the trust.
Where does the university stand?
Atrium is an independent student project, not affiliated with or speaking for the university. It is deliberately built to be something a university has no reason to object to: no instructor ratings, no course materials changing hands, no public forum. Study advice between students, written down calmly and kept in one place.
What if someone writes something unfair?
Four layers before a human is involved: the specific questions and the 500-character limit stop most of it being conceivable; then the cooling period; then a polite interruption for anything that reads as being about a person; then two flags from separate accounts hold a note for review. Stewards are the last line, not the first.
When does it open?
Founding members first. We’ll write when your place opens, and after that only about Atrium itself.
Take a place
A hundred students set the tone for everyone who follows.
Leave your address and we’ll write to you when your place opens.
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