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11 Must Have Apps for Students
Improve your productivity and mobile phone usage with this handy selection of apps and tools for students. Whether it’s making notes more efficiently, making sure you stick to your assignment deadlines, sources for cross-referencing or collaborating, there’s an app that can help you.
As per a 2015 study conducted by McGraw-Hill Education, 77 percent of students reported that using tablets and smartphones has helped improve their grades, and 62 percent said that tech helps them feel more prepared for class.
Improve your productivity and mobile phone usage with this handy selection of apps and tools for students. Whether it’s making notes more efficiently, making sure you stick to your assignment deadlines, sources for cross-referencing or collaborating, there’s an app that can help you.
Evernote
The Evernote app allows students to create a "note" which can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note. Notes can also have file attachments. Notebooks can be added to a stack while notes can be sorted into a notebook, tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, searched, and exported as part of a notebook.
Available on:
iOS, Android, Windows and as web based tool
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OneDrive
Microsoft OneDrive is a digital locker that allows students (and other users) to seamlessly back up and share digital files with other students – pdfs, images, .docs, ppts, etc. You can also collaborate on files, create unique sharing terms, and more with the support of the best word processor and productivity suite in the world in Microsoft Office. (Microsoft has made it’s Office Online suite available free as browser based tools.)
It also can back up your personal photos, files, and more so that it’s all seamlessly available to you on any device at any time.
Available on:
iOS, Android, Windows and as web based tool
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Photomath
Students need to simply point their camera toward a math problem and Photomath will magically show the result with detailed step-by-step instructions. Photomath supports arithmetics, integers, fractions, decimal numbers, roots, algebraic expressions, linear equations/inequations, quadratic equations/inequations, absolute equations/inequations, systems of equations, logarithms, trigonometry, exponential and logarithmic functions, derivatives and integrals.
Available on:
iOS and Android
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My Study Life
Students can now say goodbye to a paper planner. My Study Life is everything your paper planner is and more. Organise your classes, tasks and exams & never forget a lecture or assignment again. My Study Life remains focused on ensuring that all students have a simple, easy to use solution to organise all of their classes, tasks and exams as well as adding new functionality for teachers and schools.
Available on:
iOS, Android, Windows and as web based tool
More info:
Microsoft Office Mobile
Microsoft Office Mobile is the Office companion for phones running Android OS prior to v4.4. and available separately as Excel, PowerPoint and Word for Android 5 and above.
You can access, view and edit your Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents from virtually anywhere. Documents look like the originals, thanks to support for charts, animations, SmartArt graphics and shapes. When you make quick edits or add comments to a document, the formatting and content remain intact.
Available on:
iOS, Android, Windows and as web based tool
More info:
https://products.office.com/en-us/mobile/office-mobile-apps-for-android
Quizlet
Quizlet provides free study tools for students, teachers, and learners of all ages that can be used in and out of the classroom, on your own or with friends, and on the go. Quizlet offers offline access as well as six different study modes which can be used to study any subject.
Available on:
iOS and Android
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Pocket is one of the most popular programs for saving and reading web content on your mobile device. If students are to use the Internet to gather, evaluate, and use information, a tool such as Pocket is indispensable for keeping that content organized and available as needed.
Just think of it as the new age scrap-book where you can bookmark and save your research items for offline reference and reading.
Available on:
iOS, Android and as web based tool
More info:
https://getpocket.com/blog/2014/09/a-pocket-promotion-for-students-get-smarter-this-semester/
Tiny Scanner
Tiny Scanner is a mobile scanner app that turns your handheld device into a portable document scanner and scan everything as images or PDFs.
With this mobile app you can scan documents, photos, receipts, reports, or just about anything. This pdf document scanner app is lightning fast and designed for optimal use on both phone and tablet.
Available on:
iOS and Android
More info:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appxy.tinyscanner&hl=en
Focus Booster
Students can use Focus Booster to apply the pomodoro technique, overcome distractions, maintain focus, stay fresh and finish work on time. It allows you to time sessions and breaks, consecutively. It can track all the sessions you complete. It will automatically create timesheets and reports, allowing you to monitor your productivity. It is simple to set up.
Available on:
As web-based tool and desktop apps for Windows and Mac
More info:
https://www.focusboosterapp.com/
Tinycards
Millions of students use flashcards every day to memorize things, Tinycards from Duolingo has turned memorizing into a game where you have fun unlocking new levels. Tinycards uses spaced repetition and other smart learning techniques to help you remember new material. Create your own decks and share them with friends, or pick from a variety of ready-made collections by experts.
Available on:
iOS
More info:
https://tinycards.duolingo.com/
Mindly
Mindly was created to provide an effective tool to capture, organize and develop your ideas. The key focus is to allow the user to easily use the mind mapping technique or visual note taking. The tools is easy to use and does not require lot of typing, formatting or adjusting details.
Available on:
iOS, Android and Mac
More info:
http://www.mindlyapp.com/features