Student Innovator Research Apps
Need help researching? Struggling to get started with an assignment? Check out the apps below used by students, recommended by students!
Please feel free to add you comments below.
Apps to get help you get organised:
My Study Life
This is essentially the same as carrying around a notebook planner but on your phone. You can input your timetable, deadlines, homework, exams and holidays to keep yourself on track during the school year. For those just starting out at college you will soon learn that time management is vital because it is down to you to keep yourself on track as it is no longer your tutors’ jobs to remind you constantly like you may have had at secondary school. - Bekii, Student Innovator
This app has been reviewed and recommend by three Innovators! Read their reviews here:
Wunderlist
It is a good way to create lists, this has helped me to be organised. You can share lists which is good for group work tasks. You can sort the lists alphabetically, edit the list and add more people, I can also print off the list and email to people. I can create an account using Facebook and Google.
It is really useful to make quick to do on the go which can remind me to get tasks done!
Apps to help with your assignment:
RefME
It helps you to reference your sources, including textbooks and websites which is useful in college projects and essays. It also shows you how to Harvard reference which is often a new skill to most students. You can also put all your citations into a project folder to keep everything organised. It has helped me to understand what needs to be included in a reference and how it is presented.
This app has been reviewed and recommend by two Innovators! Read their reviews here:
Grammarly
This web page is a very simple grammar checking tool. The main selling point of this web page is that you are able to copy and paste paragraphs of text into this tool and it will check all grammar in those paragraphs for you with seconds and change the mistakes that you make. I found Grammarly very effective when writing my assignments as before submitting them for deadline I could check my paragraphs through Grammarly to remove any mistakes that I had made. Grammarly is also very easy to use.
This app has been featured in our monthly Tech Tips and has been reviewed by a Student Innovator, click here to read Hayley's review.
OneNote
This app will allow you to have different 'notebooks' on different subjects/ topics which is good as you can organise your notes you may have saved in different places. It uses your Office365 account that you got linked on your device (if you use other apps e.g. OneDrive), if not you can just sign in and it will link straight away, that means that your notes are available across all your devices.
Within each note you can have writing, lists or a photos, so it would be good for check lists, revision and notes in lessons. You can invite people to your notebook and you can copy a link to it in order to collaborate better, this will benefit you if you are working in a group. Also you can do voice recording if you find it hard to spell
Click here to read Liam's review.
Office Lens
Office Lens is a mobile scanner, you can take scans using your camera on your phone. You can choose the source you will scan from document, whiteboard, business card and photo. It allows you to import the scan into Word or PowerPoint, if your scan has text it will recognise this and convert into digital text. I can export it to a PDF, add to my Photo Library, email, Word, Powerpoint and OneNote.
Click here to read Liam's review.
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