[2][3] The company launched as a peer-to-peer learning platform[4] whose claimed goal was to change higher education[5] by providing a virtual space in which students could collaborate.

Studyhall members would add their classes to their profile each semester, and were connected to other students in the same courses.

Students were notified of other members’ activity on the website through updates on their account homepage.

[10][11] Studyhall.com accounts had a word processing feature for members to record, share, and organize class notes.

Each account had video-chat capability for interactive study sessions, in which notes could be shared between two members on a collaborative “whiteboard.”[12] Studyhall.com officially launched in September 2012 at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, where the company was a Startup Battlefield Finalist.