Top Online Tools For College Students

If you’re an online student then you should work with online tools. Not only are online tools for college students usually free, they are readily available, easy to access and extremely useful.  Best of all, online tools for students come with all sorts of capabilities so that they can be useful no matter what you study. So; distance learning students unite; you can all benefit from using the same technology.

Google Documents – Google Docs is one of the best free student tools ever.  With Google Docs you can store documents, create spreadsheets, documents and more and then access them from any computer in the world. This means that you won’t need a USB stick to go and print off papers at the library anymore. You can also use Google Docs calendar to set up your school/home/play calendar. In fact, you can even set each calendar up separately and then sync to your smart phone should you chose.

CiteMe – CiteMe is a very cool Facebook App that allows you to find sources and citations for just about anything. You can type in the author, ISBN or title, press search and a formatted citation comes up. This is great if you’re just looking for one or two citations but don’t want to bother searching the web. You don’t even have to stop chatting with your friends to find citations with CiteMe!

Diigo – Diigo is a great app for organizing notes, writing documents, creating documents and sharing them across pretty much anywhere. However; Diigo’s main purpose is to allow you to bookmark and write notes and notations across any web page, anywhere. If you have ever used online research pages then you know how useful this can be. Best of all, if you make notes on a page and then turn off your computer, you can come back to notes that have been saved to the page.

EverNote – EverNote is another great organization tool that is extremely useful for students. The app allows you to organize, search and view pretty much anything you like. This includes your homework, to do list, shopping list, calendar, photos, recipes or etc.  EverNote is also available on nearly every smart phone, tablet and computer so you can download it and sync across all of your electronic devices. The normal version is free, however; for the premium version you can get a 50% discount for student groups of 3 or more.

There are hundreds of free applications available that students can use to make their lives easier. If you are looking for a program for your computer, your phone or your tablet, all you have to do is search it online. Chances are someone has come up with it and chances are there is a free version available somewhere.