 Hi guys, my name is Bhagya Goddakanda and in this video I will explain to you how to properly create and join a roommate group and search for potential roommates on your housing application for the next academic year. Once you get to the next steps portion of the application there'll be a brief text including all the instructions that you would need to know. However, I will walk you through the steps one by one in this video. When you get to the roommate profile it will ask you a brief question name which will be used to find potential roommate matches which I will show you in the next step. The name that you wish potential roommates to see is going to be a username by default. The description is very important. My recommendation to you is be thorough and be descriptive as much as possible. Make sure to include any of your interests, your school habits, anything that you would like others to know about yourself. And finally make sure to tick the box if you wish to be included in the roommate search process. Here you would be able to create a roommate group. You can fall under two categories. One if you already have a roommate group identified or if you're going to be searching for potential roommates. If you already know who you want to live with and have a friend group you would need to communicate with each other and appoint a group leader. The group leader will then go into the application and hit on create group and then here you would make a group name and give it a password. I've done this before so it has pre-populated for me so let's go ahead and do that. And then you want to make sure to check this box and hit save group. The group leader will then share this information with the rest of the team. Right now it's just myself but once other people join the group it will show you the names underneath. I will briefly explain you these three options. Every time a new group member joins the group you would have to verify the group and that's going to be the group leader's responsibility. Delete group is when let's say the group leader gets a request from somebody else to join their group then you the group leader will need to delete the group because you will not be able to maintain two groups at the same time. Edit group is just to edit the group name or the password. So for this video purpose I'm going to delete the group for now and if I was another member of the team I would click on join group type the group name and the password and hit join group. In this case it's not going to work because I just deleted the group. Let's go back and if you're in the second category of looking for potential roommates you can use these three options to look for the roommates. You can search for roommates by the details like their username. You can search for roommates by profile so basically you just like mentioned any of the the answers that you gave initially like how important is cleanliness to you, same gender, tobacco preferences, vegetarian vegan lifestyle etc and you hit search and the system will show you matches. Or you can simply hit suggest roommates and you will see other students and you can see the matching rate according to the way that you answered your questions and here you'd be able to send them messages and communicate internally as well. Once you communicate and come into an agreement then you can invite them to join your group or you can join their group. Again the same process you just have to share the username and the password to join a group. Now let's go back one more time. That's really about it. Once you join a group and verify a group you should be good to go. However I do want to emphasize on two main points before ending the video. Once the room selection opens the group leader will be responsible for assigning the entire group into a room or or apartment. So make sure the group leader is on top of it and that they have the earliest time slot and second discuss the room location type and price point amongst all the students before room selection starts. This will make the room selection process a much smoother and my recommendation is to have at least four options in your mind when it comes to room selections. That's about it and if you have any questions or concerns contact UC housing you can email them at uc housing uc.edu or give them a call at 513-556-6465.