5 Resources Online College Students Can Use For Studying
- Grammarly
- Evernote
- Purdue OWL
- GoConqr
- SlideShare
Anyone who has just signed up for an online degree program should be aware of the most useful study resources for online college students. What constitutes “most useful” is somewhat subjective, in that certain resources may be extremely useful to students studying certain subjects while being useless to a student in another discipline. The following are five useful resources for students no matter what they are studying.
1. Grammarly
Grammarly is a free browser extension available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. It is a writing assistant that checks for spelling, grammar, punctuation, and phrasing issues. It is especially useful for writing e-mails and posting within online portals, which students pursuing a degree online will do more frequently than their traditional counterparts. Students who use this tool to learn from their mistakes will become better writers, which makes it extremely useful for students who feel they are not especially strong writers, to begin with. Research papers and other major assignments can also be checked with Grammarly in apps such as Google Docs.
2. Evernote
Evernote is one of the most significant note-taking apps available. It is heavily in use in the business world and highly useful for college students as well. Online college students are more likely to take notes digitally, which makes Evernote an even better resource for them than for traditional college students who prefer to take notes on a laptop during class. Evernote has additional features that are useful to students, such as document scanning, clipping sections of web pages, organizing notes into notebooks, syncing notes across multiple devices and more. It also connects with many other popular apps such as Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, Google Drive and more.
3. Purdue OWL
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) from Purdue University is one of the best online study resources available for writing papers on any subject. It has detailed information and examples on how to format citations for every major style guide. This includes in-text citations, citations in footnotes and citations in a bibliography. It provides information on correct paper formatting, such as title pages, in different styles. The OWL also has information on formatting formal letters and cover letters, which will help students successfully appeal to employers and land a job after obtaining their degree.
4. GoConqr
GoConqr is a multifaceted digital learning tool for students, making it a great study resource for online college students. Its standout feature is mind-mapping, which allows students to connect and group ideas in ways to help them better grasp concepts. Other features include note-taking ability, the ability to make flashcards to aid in memorization, a digital library with resources on a wide variety of subjects and more. The sheer flexibility GoConqr offers allows students to use it in ways that will fit their own learning style. GoConqr also has a browser extension for Chrome and is available as an app.
5. SlideShare
SlideShare is a slideshow hosting platform owned and operated by LinkedIn. Although much of its content is aimed at professionals in the business world, a significant amount of the information contained in the millions of uploaded presentations can be useful study resources for online college students. Because individual users upload their own slideshows, there are slideshows on just about every subject imaginable hosted on the site, including art, environment, marketing, technology and more. Another potential benefit is demonstrating to students who may need to give online presentations themselves on how to create and format slides properly for an engaging multimedia presentation.
Students pursuing a college degree online have need of slightly different resources than traditional students, although there is some overlap. It is important to explore the various available study resources for online college students.
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