Your first week
Welcome. First Six is here for exactly what its name says: the first six weeks, when everything is new and it is easy to fall behind before you have found your feet. This page gets you set up in about ten minutes.
You do not need to do everything at once. Three things in week one will carry most of the value: your timetable, your first check-in, and knowing where help is.
Set up your timetable
Open the Timetable tab. You can add classes by hand, but the fastest way is to import them.
Most universities publish your classes as a calendar feed. Paste that link into Timetable → Import, and First Six keeps itself up to date as your schedule changes. If your university does not offer a feed, add classes manually once and they will repeat each week.
Once your classes are in, the Today view shows what is on, what is next, and where you need to be, with a line that tracks the current time so you can see at a glance whether you are early or running late.
Do your first check-in
Once a week, First Six asks how you are going. It takes under a minute.
The check-in is a few light questions, not a form. There are no wrong answers, and you can skip any question you do not want to answer. The point is to notice how a week actually felt, which is surprisingly easy to lose track of when every week is busy.
Staff see patterns across a whole cohort, not your individual answers line by line. The page What staff see (and what they don't) explains exactly where that line sits.
Know where help lives
If a week gets hard, you do not have to figure out the right door. Open Help and raise a request in a sentence or two. It goes to the wellbeing team at your institution, and you will get a real reply.
If you are in crisis, do not wait for a reply. The Help screen has a "right now" option that surfaces immediate support, including the crisis lines your institution has set up. You can use it any time.
What happens next
That is week one. Over the following weeks the app introduces a little more as you go, following a six-week arc designed to match what tends to be hard when. You do not need to read ahead; it will meet you where you are.
When you want to go deeper on any one piece, the rest of the student guide is here, and search (press /) will jump you straight to it.
The fastest answer is usually one question away.