How to make a student submission?
Although, we don’t want to drive differentiate and have biases between the student body of work vs professional work but it bodes well, if you know what content is been driven through which channel. As it helps set the expectation with people and also gives perspective as to what lenses to look the projects from.
Guidelines for Submission
1 The steps to getting your articles are below but there are a few additional things that students must know / should complete before submissions which are below.
- Complete your registration here.
- Follow the page
- Send your submission in the whatsapp group (If your registration is complete, then this would be
- Wait for your enrollment to be complete on medium (We add you as a writer, you should get a notification.)
- Submit your article to the publication
- We will publish it out on the next chance we are online.
Check the link above if you want to know a detailed article. If your registration is incomplete, your ariticle will not go through and your enrollment on the medium blog would not be allowed, or will be revoked if already given.
2 Submissions Disclaimers. Student work submissions can be both group or solo efforts, so taking that into account, it is necesary that the all the participating students are mentioned below the article.
Example —
This is a group academic project by a student group. Below are the students involved in the same.
- Santosh Kumar— Communication Design, UID Ahmedabad
- Simran Kaur — Fashion Communication, NIFT Mumbai
- Shekhar Som — Communication Design, NID Bangalore
3.Submission Types: This is not a portfolio site but a learning page where others can learn and grow from your content. So that said, we would prefer to have opinion pieces, case studies, reviews and also interviews of design leaders.
4. Tags: Each article can use 5 tags in total to help Medium segreate content basis those. We also use the same to segregate. As a student, your tag should have “Design Student” as one of the tags, as it helps to then be placed at the right places in the publication.
5. Benefits: There are general benefits being a part of the community but they apply differently to the student body.
Distribution: This will be on a case to case basis and also distribution mediums. In general, all articles gets shared throught the Linkedin platform while the better ones, in whatsapp groups across India.
Feature: This again is based on quality and reception of the aritcles. Mostly the top panel is reserved for the best of articles, but often articles that are trending on the second set of articles.
6. One Article, One Publication Medium follows this rule where it only allows article to be published into one publication alone. Once you have published your article with us, you wouldn’t be able to do that.
- As a policy, if you are submitting an article with us, we are expecting you to keep the article on our platform for a minimum period of 3 months. If the article is removed or duplicate articles are found, we would ban the person from the design led & associated networks.
- The long and short of it, is below. Incase you are looking to putting the same article twice on medium.
