Chapter Four: Study Groups
Review, reflect and refine! Three crucial steps, which are needed to improve with each chapter. With those chapters the way how the Syncademy evolves, shall be maintained. Growth, promotions, activity and knowledge are some of the things, which are heavily connected to the chapters. These shall help to keep track of the Syncademy's evolution.

Review! The Syncademy has grown by large amounts over the last chapter and even tripled the member size.
During that period also two more most reliable members have been added to the ranks of the faculty members to help cover that growth rate, which were especially needed to hold up to three course groups at the raid evenings.

With the conclusion of the ARR progression and a perfect example of sharing the knowledge by getting 13 firstkills at T13 with rotating group members over three attempts, the Syncademy celebrated the victory by organizing a Community Choice Week and made its way to Heavensward. All Extreme Trials of HW already got laid down low at least on synced, while progress has been made into Alexander and Eden Savage on MIL+Echo. In addition to that the first round of the MIL Crystal Tower Alliance Raid series got completed.
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Reflect! To maintain the (re-)progress and sharing the knowledge over the fights, the rotation got invented for the Friday and Saturday courses. By using a difficulty ramp up approach for having reasonable encounter difficulties to learn on and limiting the rotation weekslot extensions, we managed to not get stuck in encounters anymore. The overall strength of the members also has been increased over the last chapter, which further supported quicker firstkills and sharing the knowledge about those fights.

With the constant growth of the Syncademy and a solid foundation of its regular courses an environment got created for the first smaller study groups, which have been formed to cover more ground and deepen the knowledge in different synced aspects of the game.

Refine! To support the further evolution of the Syncademy new channels and roles have been introduced.
First of all a new #study-groups channel got added for an easy and faster way of creating or finding parties within the ranks of the Syncademy on a more spontaneous basis next to the regular courses in our #calendar.

Next to that volunteer mentors got added, who'll maintain the #job-overview channel and try to answer questions in the #job-training channel. This shall further support existing and new members of the Syncademy to get into different roles and jobs.

The future of the Syncademy looks bright and the goal has been set to progress further into Heavensward while also giving previous achieved fights their space as part of our rotations for further continuing to share the knowledge.

Let's continue the studies in groups!