DebateAddict (10) User Subscription

Since 2001, DebateAddict has been the best and most efficient way to manage your team's electronic research. DebateAddict centrally stores all of your cards, briefs, and other materials, making them instantly and securely accessible to any member of your team via the internet. Although designed originally for policy debate, DebateAddict is now also in use by teams competing in LD and Extemp. Starting with the 2008-2009 school year, DebateAddict is aggressively cutting its prices with the goal of becoming the best value in third-party products and services available to your team.

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Each user from your school is assigned a unique login name and password. Using that account, students and coaches can cut individual cards, or upload entire documents to the DebateAddict website. Cards and other materials can easily be sorted into topics and folders, and can be edited, underlined, or modified by other users with permission from the person who originally posted the material. DebateAddict automatically keeps track of the user who cut the card, the date it was cut, and the changes made each time it is modified, allowing changes to be "undone" an unlimited number of times. DebateAddict also counts the words in each card, allowing it to estimate the time needed for each user to read the card based on the user's individual speaking speed.

Cards can be printed directly from DebateAddict, sorted into briefs online, or downloaded into a word processor for further manipulation. Because DebateAddict stores each part of the card (author, source, etc) separately, each of your users can select the DebateAddict card layout that best suits their individual needs, or you can create your own layout from scratch. If you adjust your layout from time to time, DebateAddict automatically applies the changes to every card in the system.

DebateAddict is designed for speed. It is specifically tailored to allow the user to cut more cards in a shorter period of time than any other system (including basic word processors using cut-and-paste). After a user enters a card, DebateAddict streamlines the process of entering another card from the same source. With one click of the mouse, DebateAddict brings up a "New Card" form with every field populated based on the previous card, except for the Tag and Card Text fields. Using this system, an experienced user can enter their first card in as little as 30 seconds, and their second, third, and subsequent cards, in as little as 10 seconds each. DebateAddict similarly makes it easy to correct mistakes in card citations. If a user changes the author, credentials, source, article title, article date, or topic of one card, DebateAddict allows the user to apply those changes to all cards cut from the same source.

DebateAddict has become an indispensable tool for coaches because it allows them to keep track of student productivity. Coaches can use DebateAddict to determine the number of cards cut by each student within a specified timeframe, and they can view the cards cut by each student to correct quality issues before they become major problems. Many coaches now assign students to cut a weekly quota of cards using DebateAddict, which simplifies the grading process. Students can also access the reporting tools, which spurs friendly competitions among teammates to cut the most cards.

DebateAddict also includes a rich set of other features, including file uploads, sharing with other schools, case lists, topicality, automatic backfiles, a robust security & permissions system, and more.

Since its launch in 2001, DebateAddict has become the premier choice for online debate research collaboration. At the time of this writing (June, 2008), DebateAddict users had cut over 145,000 cards in 12,000 topics, with the numbers growing faster each year. Now that debaters and coaches have easy access to smart phones, wireless internet cards, laptops, and ubiquitous Wi-Fi internet connections, DebateAddict can be used in more places than ever before, even on the road while traveling to a tournament.

DebateAddict is a subscription-based service that is licensed to individual schools, priced based upon the number of users at the school. Each individual user must have a separate username (the same username cannot be used to access DebateAddict simultaneously from more than one computer). Besides the requirement for individual usenames, a DebateAddict subscription has no limits. Each user can save unlimited cards, briefs, topics, etc., and there is no limit to the amount of backfiles that you can accumulate.

Many loyal customers have gladly paid $499 year after year for their DebateAddict subscriptions; however, DebateAddict is now aggressively priced at just $99/yr for a 10-user license, or $199/yr for a site license allowing unlimited users at one location. DebateAddict also offers a FREE 30 day trial subscription, which is available through DebateChamps in the "Free Products" area and on the Policy Page.

All DebateAddict subscriptions are subject to the DebateAddict Terms & Conditions found here: https://secure.inkwater.com/manage_account/license.php

(You will receive a confirmation PDF download upon purchase, but will receive your subscription information within 48 hours)