We have expanded the list of applications that are useful for organizing schedules, managing time or storing content online for the new academic year.
The time has come: students have to focus again on timetables, assignments, exams and many other tasks with the start of the new course. One option for you to optimize your study time and learn to organize yourself is by using one of these 29 apps for going back to school.
The time has come: students have to focus again on timetables, assignments, exams and many other tasks with the start of the new course. One option for you to optimize your study time and learn to organize yourself is by using one of these 29 apps for going back to school.
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ActionDash
It is ideal for students who are easily distracted, since it monitors the behavior and the use that is given to the mobile on a daily basis. Thus, it allows you to know how much time is spent on apps like YouTube, Google, Facebook or WhatsApp, among others, and set usage limits. In this way, it helps reduce screen time, stay focused, reduce distractions, increase concentration, and beat phone addiction, among other benefits.
Available for Android .
Key to Baccalaureate VocApp
It provides a fun and flexible way to help students learn key vocabulary that is introduced in High School courses. Developed by Oxford University Press, it gives access to a course with two levels of difficulty and has audios, questionnaires and translations into Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician. Students face small tests and can follow their progress as they advance in level.
Available for Android and iOS .
math board
Adaptable for children from Kindergarten to Primary who begin with the first calculation operations (addition and subtraction) and gradually go up in level (multiplication and division). Each activity is designed so that it adapts to the student’s knowledge. Some of them are addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, square roots, equations, exercises with multiple questions and answers, and short tests with a timer.
Available for iOS .
Smartick
Thanks to Artificial Intelligence, the app designs a session for each student, so that they progress at their own pace. With only 15 minutes a day they will be able to improve in the subject with tailored content and without help from their parents; It has interactive tutorials and guided exercises to introduce new concepts. At the end of the daily session, the student can access the ‘Virtual World’, where games designed to enhance their cognitive training await them.
Available for Android and iOS .
How does my body work?
It visually and dynamically displays the anatomy of the human body through nine interactive scenarios: the circulatory, respiratory, urogenital, digestive, nervous, skeletal, muscular, skin, and pregnancy systems. Students will be able to play and learn while observing how the heart pumps blood or where the food that the body ingests passes through and discovers why a mosquito bite hurts, among other things.
Available for Android and iOS .
iNotebooks by Rubio
It compiles a series of activity notebooks with mathematical problems, uppercase and lowercase letters, coloring drawings… that students can solve alone or with their families. His parents. Each user can create a character, customize it with different looks and clothing, and use it to overcome the different levels and notebooks of the application.
Available for Android and iOS.
iStudy Pro
It works like a multipurpose virtual agenda, since it allows you to write down tasks, add reminders and notifications, plan your day-to-day tasks and record the grades obtained so far. Ideal for students and students who wish to have a more complete organization using the mobile device.
Available for iOS .
Kahoot!
It is used to create quizzes and tests on any subject and give them a gamified and participatory format, in which the whole class can take part. The dynamics are simple: the teacher or tutor creates a room with the questions and answers they want and, by means of an access code, the students can enter and play to answer the questions and obtain points. The student who answers the most questions in the shortest possible time will be the one who gets the most points and, therefore, the winner.
Available for iOS and Android d.
PlayKids
Developed by specialists in children’s pedagogy, it contains numerous series, books and educational games available to the little ones. Its objective? Entertain and complement teaching in a fun way, reinforcing the knowledge they have acquired in the classroom through recreational activities of different formats or didactic audiovisuals, among other resources.
Available for Android and iOS.
study aid
Contains a list of relaxing ambient sounds to facilitate study and create a calm environment. It is possible to select several of them and play them at the same time, adjust their intensity and choose between various categories such as natural sounds or music, among others. All files have been created by sound designers specialized in the field of study and concentration.
Available for Android .
brainly
In this school community, Secondary, Baccalaureate or university students can solve any doubts that arise when they are outside the classroom. After asking the question in question, a community member responds with an explanation, to which sources can be added for further investigation. It offers a search engine where doubts that have already been resolved can be found and to motivate users it has a classification for those who answer the questions.
Said ranking goes from the category of ‘Rookie’ to that of ‘Genius’. It is ideal for the first days of class, in which there are new tasks to do and content to learn.
Available for Android and iOS .
brain focus
It allows you to manage time by establishing study periods and interspersing a series of breaks. Also, you can block those mobile applications that may be distracting, such as back-to-school messaging apps or social networks, or even the option to disable the Internet. In addition, the time dedicated to each of the activities can be analyzed by checking the start and end times of the activities.
Available for Android .
Google Drive
This online storage service offers the possibility of sharing documents, work and tasks with other students through a link , which can later be edited by others. All the documents are in a single space and it is useful both to continue working at home and for correction by the teacher.
Among its multiple functions for the first days of class is the function that students can work on the same document at the same time or always have a backup copy and not lose any project or work. Even if a multitude of documents are saved, this service has optical character recognition, which allows a file to be found by its content and not just by its assigned name.
Available for Android and iOS .
Khan Academy
It allows you to continue learning different subjects for free and can be useful for a return to routine, a moment in which students set themselves a series of academic objectives. With this application you can advance the study of contents in different subjects or learn related concepts, for example, with programming or statistics. This free library is made up of videos and interactive exercises with which to follow the contents. It also allows you to study without an Internet connection, since you can download the files.
Available for Android and iOS .
My study life
It is useful for planning the time needed to do homework or study for exams. To do this, this application makes use of colors to differentiate tasks, it has reminders, it can be synchronized across all devices and it works offline, so it’s possible to consult it even when you don’t have Internet access.
slack
Many of the course assignments and activities are usually done in groups. It is, therefore, essential that students have a tool to organize their work team, facilitating communication and collaboration of all its members . Slack combines both capabilities: it’s for organizing projects, exchanging messages between study team members, sharing documents, collaborating, and also keeping shared control of unfinished tasks.
Available for Android and iOS .
Class schedule
This application allows you to have the student’s class schedule updated and at hand , whether he studies at school, high school or university. Visually, its interface stands out for its simple and clear design, and it is possible to assign a color to each task or subject for quick location . The schedule view spans several weeks.
Available for Android and iOS .
Memrise: learn languages
In addition to the most popular languages (English, French, German, and Italian), Menrise can also be used to learn Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Arabic, and Russian. It helps to practice and perfect the mastery of any of these languages through interactive games: oral comprehension, quick or classic review, difficult words … It also has nearly 30,000 videos made by native speakers on the use of each of these languages. ; a chatbot to improve the conversation ; and a pronunciation guide . Daily goals can be set to measure student progress.
Available for Android and iOS .
iWork
For essays, presentations to present in class, electronic books, or any other type of work that requires the use of texts, spreadsheets, statistical graphs, photos or illustrations. Available for iPad, it includes: Pages for texts and documents with text, graphics and multimedia content; Numbers for spreadsheets and statistical graphs; and Keynote for presentations. All three provide a variety of templates and design tools that make job preparation easy . In addition, its collaboration capabilities ensure that a whole group of students collaborate in real time on the same document from a Mac, iPad, iPhone or PC.
Available for iOS .
microsoftoffice
Students can use the Word app to view, edit, create, or read a document, as well as use a speech recognition feature that will transform what you say into text. On the other hand, they have the possibility to create spreadsheets with Excel and PowerPoint presentations . These three applications also allow you to view or edit files anywhere thanks to their integration with cloud services such as OneDrive. In another vein, they’ll use OneNote to organize notes and keep track of their to-do list and Outlook for email.
Available for Android and iOS .
scratch jr
More and more schools are teaching programming. ScratchJr is an application that introduces children from 5 to 7 years old to the world of programming in an entertaining way through interactive games that include programming blocks: students will make the characters move, sing, jump or dance, among other possibilities.
Available for Android and iOS .
CalculatorPlus
Another essential application for students is a calculator. Calculator Plus offers a clean and simple design, with easy to read characters and percentage buttons that show the entire operation of the calculation process . For more advanced operations it has a calculation button.
Available for Android and iOS .
Dictionary of the RAE and ASELE (DLE)
DEL is the name of the official app of the RAE and ASELE, the Association of Spanish Language Academies, and allows students to solve any grammatical or spelling question in a simple and direct way . Search results can be shared on social networks. It includes a direct access to the conjugation of the verbs .
Available for Android and iOS .
WordReference Language Dictionary
It can be used with many languages , includes the consultation of conjugations and, in addition, it has a forum where users discuss and share their linguistic doubts. Another of its characteristics is that students can hear the pronunciation of words, consult examples of how and in what situations each term is used; or a list of synonyms.
simplenote
Its name already indicates the main feature of this application: simplicity . It is a resource for taking notes in a very simple way that, in addition to being multiplatform (since it can be used both on the computer and on the smartphone), it automatically synchronizes on all devices and allows notes to be organized through of tags and highlights. It has been designed by the Automattic team, the same developers of WordPress.
Available for Android
School Agenda
Practical application for students of all ages to help them organize their academic life in a methodical way , also improving their planning skills. It allows you to organize homework and exams, place homework reminders on the calendar, create personalized schedules, and even post grades received in subjects.
Available for Android
Forest
Created so that students have one more incentive to stay focused and avoid the distractions of the smartphone while they are doing their homework . As its name suggests, installing ‘Forest’ on your mobile means having a small forest in which you have to be in charge of planting the trees and taking care of them so that they grow healthy. The mechanism is simple: starting the app means planting a tree. If the application is abandoned before the tree is born (that is, the time initially marked for study or homework ends), it automatically dies.
For each plant that comes to birth, virtual money is obtained that can be used to plant new species or even for something much more comforting: having an NGO plant a tree in your name.
Scientific calculator
Despite the fact that all mobile devices include a calculator, they are usually very simple. As the courses progress, a scientific calculator becomes more and more necessary . And this is precisely what this application offers, which has nothing to envy to traditional calculators. It includes trigonometry functions, algorithms, graphs, advanced calculations…
Available for Android
babbel
Focused on learning English, it offers the opportunity to learn a large amount of vocabulary and grammar . Its formula resides in dividing the groups of words into themes , in order to help students to function in different areas of daily life such as a restaurant or a supermarket.
