Campus Manual: Recordings, Sharing, Resources & Records

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This chapter covers everything about capturing a moment on campus and coming back to it later, or handing it to someone else: call recordings and their playback, bookmarking lecture highlights, the Akashic Records library of shared resources and papers, your private learning journal, and the handful of ways campus content gets turned into a public, shareable link — book reports, and (behind the scenes) weekly project updates and monthly financial transparency reports.

Call recordings

Requires: faculty or admin role to start a recording. Once one is running, anyone in the call can stop it, and every participant automatically gets access to the finished result.

Recording itself — the Record Call button in the call toolbar, the pulsing red "recording" indicator, the 5-minute grace period if everyone steps away, and Byte's automatic summary/action items — is covered in Proximity Video Chat & Calls. This section covers what happens to a recording afterward: browsing it, playing it back, and who's allowed to.

The Recordings panel

Where: hotbar/menu → Classes & Meetups group → Recordings (🎤 icon).

Opening the panel loads every recording you were a participant in. Two view modes are available via the toggle at the top:

If you have no recordings yet, the panel just tells you to start one during a call.

Recording detail view

Selecting a recording opens a detail screen with:

• Header — the date, start time, total duration, and a status badge.
• Participants — everyone who was in the call.
• Video player (if available — see below) — the recorded call itself.
• Three tabs:

Click ← All Recordings to go back to the calendar/list.

Recordings without video

Recordings made before video capture existed on Campus ("legacy" recordings) have no video file. For these, the detail view shows a note explaining the video isn't available, but the transcript, summary, and action items are still fully preserved and browsable.

The video player and link expiry

When a recording does have video, it plays in a standard HTML5 video player embedded in the detail view (play/pause, seek, volume, fullscreen — whatever your browser provides). Behind the scenes, the actual video file lives in cloud storage and the player is handed a temporary, time-limited link to it rather than a permanent URL.

• Links are valid for roughly a day. If a link expires while you're mid-playback (you'll see the player briefly fail to load), the player automatically fetches a fresh link and resumes exactly where you left off — you don't need to do anything.
• If the player can't load the video at all, you'll see a Try again button.

Who can view a recording

• Anyone listed as a participant of that specific recording can view its detail page and video.
• The person who started the recording can always view it, even if they later left the call.
• Faculty and admins can view any recording's video, regardless of whether they participated.
• Everyone else gets an access error.

Bookmarks

Where: the bookmark icon (star/flag) shown on individual notes, slides, and detected Q&A items inside the Lecture panel (see the lectures/classes chapter for how lecture notes and slides are generated).

Click the bookmark icon on any note, slide, or Q&A entry from a lecture to mark it as a favorite for that lecture session. Toggle Show bookmarked only in the Lecture panel's filter bar to narrow the view down to just what you've bookmarked. Bookmarks are saved to your account (not just your browser), so they follow you across devices and survive clearing local storage. There's no separate "all my bookmarks" browser — bookmarks are scoped to the lecture session they were made in and surfaced through that lecture's own notes/slides/Q&A views.

Shared links (chat link sharing)

Whenever you paste a URL into class chat, local (proximity) chat, or a DM, Campus quietly records that you shared a link and awards you a point the first time you share any particular URL in a given session (duplicate pastes of the same link don't earn extra points). This is a lightweight way of recognizing people who bring outside material into conversations — no separate submit step, just chat normally.

• Your running point total and full link-sharing history are attached to your profile.
• Other players can see your shared-link history and point total on your public profile, the same way they can see your own.

This is a different mechanism from the Akashic Records resource library below — sharing a link in chat earns points and shows up in your history, but doesn't submit it to the library or make it browsable by others as a resource. Use the Akashic Records flow (via the Sphinx) if you want a link to become a searchable library resource.

Public share links (reports)

Some content you create on Campus can be turned into a public, no-login web page with a single click — a compact, shareable summary that anyone with the link can view, even if they've never logged into Campus. The clearest example of this today is Pizza Book Club reading reports:

1. Log a book report (title, author, summary, how much you read, and a fun rating) from the Pizza Book Club panel.
2. Open the History tab and click 🔗 Share on any report.
3. Campus generates a short, permanent share token for that report (reusing the same token if you share it again) and copies the public URL to your clipboard.
4. Anyone who opens that link — logged in or not — sees a small public page with the book's title, author, your summary, your fun rating, your username, and the date, plus an invitation to join Multiverse Campus.

Reports you mark private when logging them are excluded from the monthly leaderboard, but a share link can still be generated and shared for any of your own reports regardless of the private flag — the privacy setting only affects leaderboard visibility, not whether a report can be individually shared.

Related: the reading program itself (streaks, pizza slices, badges, the monthly leaderboard) is part of Pizza Book Club, not detailed further in this chapter.

The Akashic Records (resource library)

Where: walk into the building named The Akashic Records on the map. The panel slides in automatically while you're inside and slides back out when you leave.

The Akashic Records is Campus's shared library — a searchable collection of papers, tutorials, tools, videos, and blog posts that anyone can browse, and that anyone can contribute to.

Browsing the library

Inside the panel you can:

• Search the library by typing in the search box (matches title, description, tags, and category; results update automatically shortly after you stop typing).
• Filter by type using the chip row: Papers (📜), Tutorials (📖), Tools (🔧), Videos (🎬), Blogs (📝). Click a chip again to clear that filter.
• Page through results with the Prev/Next controls at the bottom once there are more results than fit on one page.
• Click any resource card to expand it and see its full description (or an excerpt if no longer description exists), its source URL, and its tags. An expanded card also shows a 💬 Talk to The Sphinx about this prompt, reminding you that The Sphinx (the librarian NPC stationed in the Akashic Records) can discuss the resource, explain it, or quiz you on it.

Only approved resources show up for regular users — items awaiting review aren't visible to you unless you're an admin.

Adding a resource

There's no upload form in the library panel itself — you add a resource by talking to The Sphinx and giving it a URL. The Sphinx can accept a link to a webpage, a PDF, a YouTube video, or a GitHub repository. Behind the scenes:

1. The Sphinx submits the URL for you.
2. Campus detects the resource type and downloads/extracts its content: PDF text, a webpage's main article text, a YouTube video's captions (or an automatic transcription if no captions exist), or a GitHub repo's README and metadata.
3. An AI pass tags the resource and assigns it a category.
4. Trusted academic sources (arXiv, Nature, IEEE, ACM, PubMed, Google Scholar, PLOS, bioRxiv/medRxiv, SSRN, JSTOR, Springer, ScienceDirect, and a few others) are auto-approved and appear in the library immediately once processed.
5. Everything else lands in a moderation queue with status submitted, awaiting an admin to approve or reject it (admin-only, from the library's admin review tools — not exposed in the regular player UI).
6. If you submit a link to a PDF that isn't from arXiv, full-text extraction is held back unless you're faculty — non-faculty PDF submissions outside arXiv are recorded but not downloaded/extracted until a faculty member or admin follows up.
7. You're limited to submitting 3 resources per hour.
8. If you submit a URL that's already in the library, The Sphinx tells you it's already there (and whether it's approved yet) instead of creating a duplicate.

Approving a resource also feeds the submitter's pets and logs a research contribution for them — a small reward for contributing to the shared library (see the pets chapter for what pet feeding does).

Reading, discussing, and quizzing on a resource

Once a resource is approved, The Sphinx can pull its full extracted content back up for you: summarize it, discuss it, or quiz you on it with a few comprehension questions — just ask while you're near The Sphinx.

Fishing for papers

Where: the shoreline on the main campus map — walk to the water's edge and press E when the "🎣 E to Fish" prompt appears.

Research Fishing is a small minigame tied into the resource library: casting a line "into the knowledge ocean" pulls up a real paper from arXiv, presented as a catch with a rarity (common, uncommon, rare, legendary) and a fish name/emoji. While a catch is surfacing, press Space (or wait — it auto-reels after a few seconds) to reel it in.

• Each catch shows the paper's title, authors, abstract, and arXiv categories, with links to view it on arXiv or download the PDF.
• Your catches are saved with a read status (unread / skimmed / read / studied) you can update as you work through them.
• A catch can be submitted to the library, turning it into a proper Akashic Records resource (with its own resource ID) rather than just sitting in your personal catch list.
• Fishing tracks a daily streak; a 7-day-or-longer streak improves your odds of a rare catch.
• Click any recent catch (or the fish list at the bottom of the fishing panel) to reopen its full detail view at any time.

Learning reflections (Bubble Wand)

Where: interact with the Bubble Wand sculpture on campus.

The Bubble Wand asks a simple prompt — "What did you learn today?" — and lets you write a short reflection (up to 500 characters). Submitting one blows a burst of bubbles as a small celebratory animation and adds the reflection to Your Learning Journal, shown right in the same panel, newest first, with the date and time you wrote each one.

Reflections are personal: there's no sharing or public-link mechanism for them (unlike the book report share links above) — they're a private running journal of your own learning moments, tied to your account so you can scroll back through past entries whenever you revisit the sculpture.

Behind-the-scenes records (not directly user-facing)

A few kinds of "records" exist mainly for faculty/admin or platform transparency rather than as a panel you open yourself:

Weekly project reports

Every week, campus NPCs Hive and Chorus write a short status report for each active project ("garden"). Faculty-sponsored projects get a report direct-messaged to the faculty sponsor summarizing overall progress and each member's contribution; student-run collaboration projects get a lighter peer-style update logged for the team. There isn't a dedicated in-app panel for browsing this report history today — faculty encounter it as a Matrix DM from Hive or Chorus.

Monthly transparency reports

Where: Store → Where the Money Goes tab.

Campus publishes a monthly breakdown of where revenue actually goes: total revenue for the month, and its allocation across teacher compensation, server/API costs, a mutual aid fund, and a research/expansion fund (roughly 50/30/10/10 by design). Gem purchases are called out separately since gem revenue is a pass-through straight to AI model costs rather than school revenue. This tab is visible to every player — it's the one place ordinary users see aggregate financial records rather than their own personal history.

Community observation journal ("Madame Leaves")

The campus NPC Madame Leaves periodically studies aggregate community behavior — students lingering after lectures, organic friend clusters forming, quiet co-presence in certain rooms, generosity patterns, dorm neighbors bonding, and so on — and writes short narrative "observations" about what she noticed. This is exposed via a read API but no dedicated in-game panel was found in this codebase; it likely surfaces only through conversation with Madame Leaves herself, if at all to regular users, so treat it as background/admin-facing rather than something you should expect to browse directly.

An unrelated shoreline curiosity: messages in a bottle

Where: the beach at low tide (watch for the "🌊 Low Tide" banner), walking on wet sand tiles.

This isn't a recording or a shared record — it's a small ambient easter egg included here only because it lives in the same stretch of shoreline as fishing. Occasionally walking on a low-tide beach tile washes up a bottle containing a short self-care reminder or a security tip, shown in a one-off popup with a running count of how many you've found. Press Escape, Space, or Enter (or click Close) to dismiss it. There's nothing to save, revisit, or share here.

Permissions summary

Related chapters

• Proximity Video Chat & Calls
• Getting Started

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