FocusBridge

For instructors

Ten minutes in week one, and every student leaves with a planned week.

If you teach a first-year seminar, a student success course or a learning-center workshop, or advise athletes on their required academic hours, this free kit helps your students set up Campus Focus in class. Each student leaves with their whole week of focus time planned from their own course calendar.

Campus Focus opens to every college student on iPhone and Android in late November 2026. Sign up now and we'll send the kit before your semester starts.

The ten-minute activity

  1. 1 min

    Ask one question

    Ask students to name every due date in the next two weeks without looking. Most can name only a few. That gap is what the activity closes.

  2. 2 min

    Get the app

    Students install Campus Focus from the App Store and pick their institution from the list. It needs no account and no sign-in.

  3. 3 min

    Connect the course calendar

    Students copy their calendar link from Blackboard, Moodle, Canvas or Brightspace and paste it into Campus Focus. The handout has the taps for each.

  4. 2 min

    See the week

    Every due date across every course becomes this week's focus blocks. Students move a block that clashes with work or practice.

  5. 2 min

    Plan tonight

    Each student picks the first block they will start tonight and says it to a neighbor. Saying it out loud is the commitment.

What's in the kit

  • This activity, with timings, to run in the first week of the semester.
  • Three slides to show while students set up.
  • A one-page handout students can follow on their own, with the taps for each course system.

The kit is free. Using it in class doesn't make you part of any research, and nothing comes back to you about your students.

Good to know

  • Students choose to use it. It's never graded, and it reports nothing about them to you.
  • Campus Focus arrives on iPhone and Android together in late November. Until then, students can follow along with a classmate.
  • It reads calendar links from Blackboard, Moodle, Canvas or Brightspace today. Other course systems are on the way.
  • FocusBridge is a research-based approach to focus. It isn't a grade-booster, and we won't claim it is.

Get the kit

Tell us where you teach, and we'll email you the slides and handout.