The BEST Websites College Students Should Know About!

The top websites for college students this year

 

With a growing, laborious college curriculum, college students can find it hard to manage their spending, time and grades. Luckily, numerous websites are accessible – to all students – that can help better their education and social life.

With an infinite amount of services available, it can be a challenge to judge which websites are the most reliable. This article aims to provide you a list of 5 websites that we – as fellow students – find the most helpful on turning you into a better student.

 

Chegg

 “the Smarter Way to Student and it is transforming the way millions of students learn by reconnecting the link between learning and earning through tools and services that support students throughout their educational journey.”

Chegg, inc. offers a series of services that range from book-rentals to student online-tutoring. They are the leading student-first interconnected learning platform helping students save money, time and get smarter while doing so.

Positives

  • Offers an alternative option on acquiring books for courses.
  • Has 24/7 online tutoring with an available free 30 mins for new accounts
  • Money-back-guaranteed if books are returned within 21 days
  • Access to practice exams for selected courses

Negatives

  • Most services offered require a membership paid for individually
  • A varied number of books available for rent
  • Books with online courses are not guaranteed to come with supplemental material (e.g. CDs, DVDs, access codes or lab materials)

 

Shmoop

We speak student.”

Shmoop is a online study tool that provides homework help, online test prep, and book summaries for students. It also contains a careers page and college 101 section that helps students have an overview.

Positives

  • Over 100,000 courses, test prep resources, and learning guides.
  • Receive help in different areas such as English, Math, Science, Humanities, Arts, and Life Skills.
  • Teachers can be able to assign activities to students and view their performance data.

Negatives

  • Number of pop-up ads that sometimes block the content.
  • Have to pay for materials such as Teacher Guides, Online Courses, Test Prep, and Shmoop for Schools.
  • Does not provide an overview of the quality of the paid materials.

 

Wolfram Alpha

Compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledge base and AI technology

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Wolfram Alpha introduces a new way to get knowledge and answers not by just searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods.Bringing broad, deep, expert-level knowledge to anyone… anytime, anywhere.Searches can include almost ANYTHING. Toughest mathematical computations…to ‘Best Pizza”. You’ll get an answer.

Positives

  • Constantly updated curated data.
  • Dynamic computation using thousands of the unique algorithms and equations.
  • Computed presentation with both visual and tabular output.
  • Friendly and simple interface.

   Negatives

  • Limited number and time of calculations in a free version
  • Questions are to be specific to get a correct answer
  • A step-by-step solution can be used by free users only a few number of  times.
  • Support of English language only

 

Rate My Professors

Claiming the largest online destination for professor ratings, the site is built for college students, by college students.”

Rate My Professors is one of the most popular “rate my teacher” websites on the Web. The site boasts more than 10 million opinions of over 1 million professors from students. The ratings cover more than 6,000 schools across the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, and Wales.

Positive

  • Anonymity of site can help students leave honest reviews.
  • Fee and easy to use and as well as to rate.
  • Database covers a very large number of colleges and professors.
  • Simple and easy to use user interface with very limited advertisements.

Negatives

  • Students sometimes have extreme opinions of professors whether positive or negative.
  • Students have different ideas about the qualities great teachers possess.
  • Sometimes there can be a very small sample of ratings.
  • Ratings are based on unclear parameters and limited categories.

 

Spotify

“music for everyone”

Spotify Technology SA is a digital music service that provides Digital rights management (DRM) protected content from both record and media companies. Users can easily enjoy music from different artists.

Positives

  • Freemium service, basic features are free with ads or limitations.
  • Music can be searched for by artist, album, genre, playlist, or record label.
  • Users can create, edit, and share their playlists on social media.

Negatives

  • Spotify free members cannot listen to music offline and mobile listening has the limitation of shuffle-only mode.
  • Lyrics feature is unavailable.
  • Users cannot directly purchase and download music tracks through the app.
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