Top Useful Online Tools to Simplify College Assignments for Students

Over a period of time, academic tools available for students have advanced to a great extent and new applications have been developed for students to assist them with their studies. In the past, education was not complicated and therefore the tools required were also simple, but as there have been advancements in education the tools that are being used have also been advanced further.

IT engineers have developed tools specifically that can help students with their studies and assignments, and here we have discussed the top three of these tools that students can use.

1: Google Docs

Google Docs is a word processor that has been developed by Google LLC. It is a web-based application and is available for use on Android, iOS, Windows as well as Blackberry. It is one of the most feature-rich applications that helps students in numerous ways and is amongst the most preferred tool by the students. A few of its key features are as highlighted:

• Multiple users can simultaneously view, read, create and edit documents online. It helps students with group projects/assignments.
• By using this application, the students are also able to immediately be notified of any changes made by any of their group mates.
• The Google servers store the original as well as the edited copies of the assignments so it is easy to further edit or undo any of the previously done edits.
• It assigns a specific color to each user to simplify identifying the edits made by different users.
• It also provides users with a separate chat window to allow users to coordinate and discuss the assignment.
• One can also import the file from the application to their local computer to perform individual tasks.
• New and different tools, not already provided in Google Docs can also be added by using the “Add On” feature.
• Users can also suggest edits using the option of “Commenting Access” if they want their suggestions to be reviewed by their teammates. It can also be helpful in situations where students wish to allow only designated people to make changes and others to put in their suggestions.
• The application also has an “Explore” feature which is an ingrained search engine that would display only the relevant results based on the written document. One could also select any particular text in the document to guide this ‘Explore’ feature to gather further information.
• The application supports various file formats like .doc, .docx, .docm, .dot, .dotx, .dotm, .html, .txt, .rtf, .odt.

2: Prepostseo

Any of the student’s assignments or research work that is submitted at their university needs to be free of plagiarism. Plagiarism is the intended or unintended copying of someone else’s work without acknowledging them as the source of that information. It doesn’t create a good impression if one’s work is found to be plagiarised, as one loses credibility and could also face legal action.

Students prefer to use online tools to avoid plagiarism in their work. One such tool that has proven to be most efficient is Prepostseo’s Plagiarism Checker. Some of the features that make it the most used application amongst students are as under:

• This application has one of the best UI/UX designs. There aren’t too many steps or instructions involved in completing the task and has an easy-to-understand one-step process and hence is very user-friendly.
• It is one of those applications that are free and easily accessible to students so that even students on tight budgets can ensure to submit plagiarism-free papers.
• It is a safe and secure application, as it doesn’t store any content of the user’s file and encrypts each sentence before comparing it online, and ensures that there is no data leak to a third party.
• The content of the files uploaded by the user is broken down into individual sentences before they are compared to the pool of data available online on various search engines. This ensures a thorough search for plagiarism in the content in real time.
• The plagiarised work and the fresh work are both marked in different colors i.e. red and green respectively to help simplify the results for the users.
• Additional assistance that this application provides is highlighting any possible grammatical mistakes overseen by the user.

3: Inquiry Chart

When for any assignment topic, the data is to be gathered from numerous different sources and eventually needs to act as a single point reference for the topic, it becomes important to simplify by arranging this collected data into a strategy chart so that the study becomes convenient.

Inquiry Chart, better known as I-Chart is an application developed to serve this purpose. It helps promote critical thinking amongst the students, and as many students can participate in creating one I-Chart.

Here is what an I-Chart looks like:

	Question 1	Question 2	Question 3	Question 4	Question 5
What we know:
Source 1
Source 2

Key Features of an I-Chart are as discussed:

• An I-Chart should either be created physically or online manually or in an online tool designated for the I-Chart strategy.
• The students should be clear amongst themselves regarding the topic/subject of their I-Chart.
• The next step is to frame questions relevant to the topic that need to be researched and to collect relevant materials.
• An I-Chart allows the user to explore the prior knowledge one has on the subject through various sources, books, the internet, etc.
• Students should discuss this prior knowledge amongst themselves, evaluate the knowledge, and find new ideas about the subject.
• Lastly, all the gathered information should be summarized and evaluated to be presented comprehensively.

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