Yellowdig drives meaningful connections throughout the student experience, from admission to alumni, with a community-building platform driven by Yellowdig’s paradigm-shifting pedagogy. The platform leverages gameful learning principles that encourage meaningful student participation. This active engagement leads to deep learning as learners form real connections with their peers and instructors while they dig into course-related conversations, support each other through challenging material, and explore ideas that make the course relevant to their lives. This critical sense of belonging and camaraderie that is formed in course communities also carries into communities outside of courses, thus helping to drive retention and student success.