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Short answers for posting work, picking up tasks, submitting deliverables, and redeeming opportunities. Sign in to your portal when you need to take an action.

Getting started

  1. Create an account as a student, business, or university. Students can start immediately. Companies and universities sign in right away; posting tasks and buying U-Bucks unlock after an XpandU admin verifies the organization.
  2. Sign in and open your portal from the top bar (Student, Company, University, or Admin).
  3. If you forget your password, use Forgot password. We email a reset link.

Students

Find and accept a task

Open Browse tasks. Each briefing shows the company, duration, skills, what you will learn and accomplish, resume lines, checkpoints, videos, and Zoom or Teams meetups. Check the commitment box, then accept. The company still has to confirm you before you can submit work.

House rules

After you accept, you must read and agree to XpandU house rules before you can submit. Every task uses the same list — companies do not write their own.

Submit work

When the company confirms you, upload a file or paste a link on My Tasks. You will see a confirmation popup. The company can accept, ask for changes, or decline. Accepted work pays U-Bucks and shows as verified on your XpandU resume.

Resume

Accepting a task adds an in-progress line with the resume objective the company (or AI) wrote. When the company accepts your work, those outcomes move to completed experience.

Opportunities

Redeem U-Bucks for interviews, conferences, internships, and other perks. Photos from the business appear on each card when they uploaded one.

Companies

Post a task

Write the title, overview, and what students will build and do. Click Tailor learn, accomplish & resume with AI. Edit anything before you publish. If you skip AI, we still fill those fields from your description when you publish.

Add final deliverables so students know exactly what to turn in. Drafts save in this browser as you type — you can leave the tab and come back. Do's and don'ts are XpandU house rules; you do not write them.

After you publish, a popup confirms the task is live. You can still add videos and Zoom or Teams meetups on the task page.

Students who pick up your task

Confirm or decline on Submissions. Confirm is a two-step check; you can undo shortly after. Send a welcome message from the template — nothing is sent automatically.

Opportunities

On Opportunities, describe the perk and attach a photo (JPG, PNG, or SVG, up to 6 MB). An admin reviews it before students can redeem. You will see a confirmation popup after you submit.

Universities

Verify which students belong to your campus, message them, offer opportunities (with optional photos), and buy U-Bucks after XpandU verifies your organization.

XpandU house rules

These apply on every task. Students agree to them after they accept work.

Do

  • Treat the company’s files, data, and brand as confidential unless they say otherwise in writing.
  • Ask questions in the XpandU task thread early if anything in the brief is unclear.
  • Meet checkpoints and the final deadline, or message the company as soon as you know you need more time.
  • Submit only your own work. Credit any tools, templates, or teammates you used.
  • Keep communication professional — on XpandU, Zoom, and Teams.
  • Follow the company’s requested file names, formats, and sharing method.

Don't

  • Don’t share internal documents, customer data, or login details outside the task.
  • Don’t post about the company or this work on social media without their approval.
  • Don’t skip checkpoints and jump to a final file if the brief asks for staged work.
  • Don’t ghost the company. If you cannot finish, say so in the thread so they can reassign the seat.
  • Don’t use the company’s name on your public resume as a full-time job — list it as XpandU project work until they approve other wording.
  • Don’t bill extra hours or ask for payment off-platform. Rewards are U-Bucks on XpandU only.

U-Bucks

Companies and universities buy U-Bucks, then reserve a reward when they post a task. Students earn that reward when work is accepted, and spend U-Bucks on opportunities. Rewards must sit in the min/max range for the workload (light, medium, or heavy).

Account & password

Use the email you signed up with. Reset links expire; request a new one if yours is old. Admins can verify companies and universities, approve catalog items, and review the email outbox.

Still stuck? Email your XpandU contact or sign in and use Messages in your portal.