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Conversations carry what you would expect — text, pictures, files, voice notes — and one thing you would not: a question, shared straight out of an exercise. Send it and it arrives as the question, not as a screenshot of it, so the person reading it can see the options, the figure and the marks it was worth.

• Sending without signal — A message written on the metro sends itself when you surface. It sits in the conversation with a clock beside it until it is really gone, so you are never guessing.
• Delivery marks — You can see when a message has reached the other person's phone and when they have read it.
• Searching a conversation — Every conversation is searchable, back to its first message — useful when somebody explained something properly three weeks ago.
• Pictures and files stay put — What is sent to you is kept in the conversation and downloaded to your phone when you open it, so it is there the next time without another trip to the network.

Messages reach your phone as notifications, and you can reply to one from the notification itself without opening the app.

Everyone has a handle — a short, unique name you choose — and a profile at it. Search for someone, send a request, and once they accept, you are friends on both sides at once. Clinicoid also suggests people from your own year, which is usually where the person you are looking for is.

If you would rather not be found, that is a setting, and it is respected everywhere: somebody who has your phone number still cannot see you if you have said you do not want to be visible.

The leaderboard ranks your year — every student in your grade, whatever module they are on this week. It is deliberately not a module board: your year is the group you are actually measured against, and a board that reshuffled every time somebody switched module would not mean anything.

A place on it is earned by the marks you take in practice, not by how long you spend in the app or how many questions you tap through — so it cannot be climbed by opening the app more often.

The timetable is one of the few things in Clinicoid tied to your year rather than your module, for the obvious reason: your faculty runs the week, and it does not care which module you happen to be revising.

Another student sees the name you chose, your picture, your handle, your year, and the achievements you have earned. That is the whole of it.

Your marks are not on it. Neither is your accuracy, what you got wrong, what you asked Coid, your email address, your phone number, or how long you spent studying last night. Nobody can look up how you are doing — the leaderboard is the only place your work is visible to anyone else, and it shows a position, not a paper.

Block anyone from their profile. It stops their messages and their friend requests immediately, and they are not told.

Report anything that breaks the rules from Menu › Contact us. Tell us who and where, and we will act — we may remove content, warn an account, suspend it, or close it.

A patient's photograph, notes or details are on that list for a reason worth saying out loud: a group chat is not a clinical record, and the person in the picture did not agree to be in it.