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Great Apps To Help You Have A Successful College Year

Last Modified: January 24, 2022 Sabrina Quairoli This blog uses cookies. It also has affiliate links. We earn sponsored content income.

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Great Apps To Help With A Successful College Year

This is the first post of a school success series that is geared to different age students. This topic is near and dear to my heart. In this series, I hope to help students and their parents streamline their processes and help them make their school year that much easier to succeed. These days many schools do not teach organization options to students. So, I am going to go through various options from apps to paper management. This series will be released on Thursdays only so please come back each Thursday to check out another posts to help your children.

Here we go.

Great assignment and note-taking apps for a successful college year.

There are many students wanting to make life easier during their school year.  Below are apps that I found to be helpful. Keep in mind that each student must try the apps to truly see if it will work for them. They may want to add their class information when they get their schedule for the semester.

Keeping Track of Assignments Apps:

There are three apps that were interesting for time management and keeping track of assignments. (Note: These apps are NOT affiliates. I just thought they looked interesting and organized for a student to use.)

For Android: Studious by Brandon Young is an interesting one for people with an Android phone. It is a great way to manage your different assignments and additional information.  The app developer had a note stating: "***Do not use an app killer or task manager to kill Studious. Studious will not be able to silence your phone or give reminders if stopped by one of these applications.***"   I haven't tried this app personally. Click above and try it to see if it will work for your student. studiousFor IOS: There are 4 homework apps I like for student assignments. The only reason I have more IOS apps is that I have access to an IOS device. Feel free to click-through and download to test out the free apps. Each app uses similar content that you will need to add.

Pocket Schedule - Class Schedule, Homework Planner & School Organizer By Appxy

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The Homework App - Your Class Assignment & Timetable Schedule Planner By Kerman Kohli

the homework appClassManager - Student School Schedule Planner Tracker & Assignment List Homework Organizer App By Satyadev Mahalingashetty

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Note-taking Apps:

I love using my tablet with the keyboard while on the go meeting with clients or just waiting for one of my kids.  It works great especially if you have a data line or good WiFi connection. These apps below for creating notebooks, tabs, and pages and has a great search feature to find whatever notes you want.  You can also add checkboxes for easy list building too.

Here are some of the note-taking apps I enjoy using:

Microsoft OneNote App: I wrote about this app on my admin support blog for small business owners. Here is the link if you want to check it out for you. To understand how to use this app, here is a video from Microsoft on how you can use OneNote.

Evernote: I used Evernote initially and it worked well too.  It is very similar to OneNote. They have a free version just like Microsoft OneNote.  Here is the pricing for Evernote if you need more storage space.

These apps have free smartphone apps so you can edit on the go or while in class. Note: For both of these apps, you will need to set up a log in account. And there is some set up to make it the way you want it.

Tip: Set up your note-taking app on the computer and then download it on to your smartphone or tablet.  It's must faster that way.

For college students using a PC or Mac:

Not all students feel comfortable using their small tablet or smartphone to take notes digitally. I recommend a good quality computer laptop no more than 15 inches monitor. If you can afford it, try getting a laptop that turns into a tablet.

Tip: If the professor doesn't allow laptops note-taking in the classroom, type up the handwritten notes when you return from class. This way it will help you add any additional notes you may have forgotten when initially writing and hopefully, helps you retain even more of the information.

For laptop students, I like the Microsoft Office for Home and Student package for the PC computers. We purchased it for both our kids. While some teachers like to use Google Classroom, the Google Docs and Google Sheets does necessarily work properly all the time so having a backup way to write reports is a good idea.

I hope this helps your student get organized and have a successful college year.  Please leave a comment below if there are any apps you have tried and recommend.  I would love to hear from you.


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  1. Daria

    July 24, 2016 at 5:23 pm

    I will definitely have my daughter read this post as she is headed to college in the fall. I like the tip about her setting up Evernote (which I love!) on her computer then downloading the app for her phone. I love to tell her stories about my life in college-we had to go to Kinkos to get a copy of our term papers!

    • Sabrina

      July 25, 2016 at 9:43 am

      I hope it helps her, Daria. Their college experience will be so different than ours. When it comes to managing the tasks, they have it easy. Is that a good or bad thing, only time will tell. Thanks for stopping by.

  2. Janet Barclay

    July 24, 2016 at 9:47 am

    It's amazing how much technology has evolved even since my kids were in college (10+ years ago). I don't know if it makes things easier or more complicated!

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