We would all agree that tertiary academic life is very stressful; attending lectures, writing quizzes and exams, doing personal assignments, group works, project works etc. Thankfully, internet tools and software are making campus life easier. These are mostly known as productivity tools. Now, students are making good use of Artificial Intelligent Apps. Yep, AIs are becoming your personal assistants. This article will introduce you to 10 essential web tools and applications that make campus life easier and productive.
1. Grammarly
Grammarly is free online writing assistant for spell check, grammar check, and punctuation check. With comprehensive feedback on spelling, grammar, punctuation, clarity, and writing style, Grammarly is more than just a proofreader. It’s a tool that helps you write with confidence, find the best words to express yourself, and communicate your ideas with ease. You can download and install it on your browser or as an add-on in Microsoft Office Word. You can just search Grammarly on google, enter the website and register for free.
2. Google Drive
Google Drive is student’s companion for data back-up on Cloud (stored and accessed over the internet). Laptop theft, PC damage are very common issues among students. With Google Drive, you can back-up your essential project documents, thesis, lecture notes etc. You can retrieve or restore your data back-up on Google Drive anywhere using your login credentials. Yep! it is really a must-have web tool; another alternative is the Dropbox by Microsoft.
3. Mendeley
Mendeley is an education and reference software specially dedicated to academics as well as
researchers. Developed by Mendeley Ltd., it enables you to store,
organize documents and even collaborate with others online. One
big challenge in writing thesis is referencing (reference citation, referencing
style and generating the list of references). The software provides citation
plug-ins for word processor tools like Microsoft Office Word. This is a completely free citation generator that
you can download on any of your compatible Windows desktops.
With Mendeley, you can have all your research documents
in one catalogue. This allows you to search for similar research materials for
your project. Mendeley allows you to easily cite references and with a click generate all bibliography or list of references organised
in your preferred referencing style ( eg. Harvard, APA and many more).
4. Copy.ai
Copy.ai is a web tool that allows you to generate human-like text within some seconds. Copy.ai allows freelance writers, marketers, business owners, and copywriters to create quality content. This includes blog intros, landing page copy, LinkedIn ads, and product descriptions. Students are usually given assignment to write about a subject. This is where copy.ai becomes very useful. You can ask the AI to write about a topic for you (eg. Climate change). It will create a unique content or article that are not plagiarized within some few seconds. There is other alternative web tool to this, just Google “copy.ai alternatives”, you will be given other web tools that works like copy.ai.
5. Quillbot/Spinbot (Paraphrasing tool)
QuillBot is a paraphrasing and summarizing tool that helps millions of students and professionals cut their writing time by more than half using state-of-the-art AI to rewrite any sentence, paragraph, or article. In undertaking research, paraphrasing is headache, isn’t it? QuillBot is the solution, it’s so simple, you just copy and paste your text on the website, and it will paraphrase it within some seconds, voila! You can explore another paraphrasing tool like spinbot or Google “QuillBot alternative".
6. Google Doc
Google Doc is simply a web version of Microsoft Office Word app, that allows you to create word documents online. This web tool is very useful for group works and team activities. You can simultaneously work on one document online with your group members. For instance, if John is working on page one, Elsa could be working on page two of the same document at the same time online.
7. Google form
Google Forms allows you to create your own custom online forms and send them to others. These forms can include surveys, quizzes, sign-ups, and more. You can have a real-time update of all inputs by respondents. Google form automatically analyze and present the inputs from respondents in the form of charts. These data could be exported in the form of powerpoint, pdf or excel format.
8. SPSS
SPSS means “Statistical Package for the Social Sciences” and was first launched in 1968. SPSS is software for editing and analysing all sorts of data. These data may come from basically any source: scientific research etc. In undertaking your final year project, this software is needed for your statistical data analysis (including finding mean, standard deviation, percentage, frequencies, correlation, regression analysis etc).
9. Britannica Encyclopaedia
Encyclopaedia Britannica has been providing knowledge to the people for more than 200 years. In the year 1768 the first printed version was published and then started an era of knowledge fetching the knowledge thirsty people. Article which are included in this Encyclopaedia were written by the people who played a vital role on the history of the world which includes head of different states and some Nobel laureates.
The last printed
version of Encyclopaedia Britannica was published in the year 2010 and now only
the digital version is available. You can either download the offline
version and install it on window desktop or visit the website using the
internet.
10. Plagiarism Checker X
Plagiarism Checker X is an impressive application
which can be used for checking as well as locating the material that has been
copied inside text document as well as webpages. This application has been
intended for the teachers and students who are required, to find out plagiarism
and original data percentage over the Internet. Its working is very simple as
it will scan the document and then will display the result within no time.
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