Feature catalogue
What the staging version of Tangle Campus offers, grouped by area. Each entry shows its current status.
This guide describes the staging version of the product, which can differ from what students see in production. Available and Beta are available in that version. Not yet available means the capability exists but is not switched on. Planned is intent, not a commitment.
Getting started
Welcome tour
A short introduction shown before sign-up or log-in.
Log in with your phone number
Log in with your mobile number and a one-time code sent by SMS.
Create your account
Choose your country and university, add study details, your name, date of birth and a profile photo, and confirm your phone number. Interests and a few fun facts are optional.
Verify your university email
Confirm your university email with a six-digit code. Verification links you to a home university.
Campus community
Switch between circles
Move between your university, large-event circles and associations you belong to.
Campus feed
See posts from your circle, with a strip of highlights on top.
Posts and polls
Share text, photos, videos or polls with your circle. Posts can be anonymous, shown under a nickname.
Highlights
Curated posts and announcements shown full screen. Admins choose what is highlighted; students can like and comment.
Groups
Create and join groups with their own chat, events and members. Groups can be public or private, with an optional member limit, join requests and paid membership.
University chat
Every university circle has a public chat for all of its students.
Marketplace
List items to sell and browse what other students offer, with chat between buyer and seller.
Events
Discover events
Browse upcoming events in your circle.
Create events
Organise an event with a date, time, location, description, attendee limit, waiting list and a free or paid price. Events can be private or require approval to join.
Join events and check in
Join, request to join, or join the waiting list. Going attendees get a QR ticket and organisers check them in.
Pay for events and memberships
Pay for paid events, clubs and groups in the app.
Receive payments for events
Organisers set up a payout account so paid events pay out to them or to their club.
Clubs and associations
Discover and join clubs
Browse clubs, join open clubs instantly, request to join others, or pay a membership fee where one applies.
Create a club
Propose a club with a description, category, privacy and membership settings. A new club starts as pending approval.
Club officer positions
Clubs assign positions (president, vice president, treasurer, secretary, events officer, membership officer, communications). Each position unlocks specific actions.
Second-officer approval for paid club events
Paid club events wait for a second finance officer to approve them before payments open.
Join associations
Join a cross-university association, directly or by officer approval, and claim an officer position.
Paid association membership
Paid membership types for associations.
Mentorship
Mentorship space
Mentorship programme members get a feed, events, chats, member and mentor lists, and information documents.
Meet and connect
Meet: event matchmaking
When a large event runs matchmaking, opt in, review candidates, and mutual matches get a table and time slot with RSVP and a post-meeting check-in.
Discover students
Browse other students in your circle, filtered by degree type and gender.
Connection requests
Send and accept connection requests. Accepting opens a chat.
Find contacts on Tangle
See which people in your phone contacts are students in your circle.
Paper plane
Send a note or photo, anonymously or named, to a randomly chosen student, who can keep it and chat or release it.
Ask-it: anonymous questions
Ask other students questions, optionally anonymously.
Chat
One-to-one chat
Message connections with text, photos, video, voice notes, documents, location, contacts, GIFs and reactions.
Group chat
Chat in groups, clubs and mentorship programmes, with replies, pins, forwarding and group events.
Chat translation
Translate a message or a whole chat into your preferred language.
AI assistant
AI assistant
Ask questions about campus events, clubs, mentors and connections, with chat history kept on your device.
Account and safety
Profile and settings
Edit your profile and photos, change your phone number, verify your university email, report a problem and read the privacy policy and terms.
Report and block
Report posts, profiles, groups and messages, and block people from chat.
Photo memories
Share photo memories from events.
Staff app
Staff sign-up and approval
Staff and Student Assistants sign up in the Staff app and wait for an administrator to approve them.
Staff home
See your programmes, mentees who need a reply, and your events.
Staff chats
Message mentees one to one and in each programme group chat.
Staff mentorship tools
Post to the programme feed, create programme events and add information items.
Staff events
Staff with the organiser permission create and edit their own events.
Dashboard
Dashboard sign-in
Administrators sign in to the web Dashboard with email and password.
Campus analytics
Overview, engagement and event analytics for a university circle.
Club approvals and moderation
Approve, reject, suspend or restore clubs, invite a club president, and pause payments for a club or event.
My clubs for officers
Club presidents and treasurers see their club, its officers and takings, and review paid events created by members.
Mentorship programme management
Create and manage mentorship programmes, information cards, members, events and feeds.
Matchmaking events
Create, edit, publish and close matchmaking events and view live analytics.
Staff approvals
Review staff sign-ups, then approve with a role and programmes or reject with a reason.
Student approvals
Review and approve or reject pending student sign-ups.
University email settings
Require students to use an official university email and manage accepted domains.
Roles and admin users
Define roles with permissions and manage administrator logins.
Content moderation
Review automatically flagged posts and comments and manage the banned-word list.
AI knowledge sources
Add websites and files that the AI assistant can draw on.
Circle management
Create university, large-event and association circles, set join policy, and activate or deactivate them.
Association board tools
Review join requests, manage members and positions, and set the join policy.