Starting a new academic year is an incredibly exciting part of students’ life. Students usually experience variety of emotions when they prepare for the upcoming year in their respective schools or colleges. They spend a lot of time preparing themselves for the next few months. Students have also conducted a lot of research to find the best tools and services for new academic year, such as software that help students manage their course schedules, phone apps that help students learn better. All these tools are going to help students prepare for the next school year.
The COVID-19 pandemic makes everything more difficult in 2021, there are many fears and uncertainties about the reopening of schools in new academic year. To be on the safe side, most schools announced that they will only take classes online. To help students get rid of the anxiety of the new school year, here is a back-to-school guide to help students learn better, and some software that can make students’ learning easier.
For this year, millions of students will be spending a lot of time studying from home, here are some helpful tips to help students study from home and also to help them focus better.
- Plan Your Day in Advance: Take a moment to sit down and list all the things you need to do tomorrow. It doesn’t matter what tools you use to schedule your day—you can use pen and paper, to-do list applications, calendar software, or even a basic note application. Therefore, when you start a new day from next morning, you can have a comprehensive overview for tasks and goals of the day, and you can better focus on completing the day’s plan.
- Ensure You Get Proper Sleep: Lack of sleep has a variety of adverse effects on our body, including fatigue. If you still try to work hard when you lack sleep, your mind and body will constantly demand your attention, which lead to be unable to concentrate. Therefore, it is very important to get enough sleep every night, so that you can get a full rest. A relaxed mind and body can perform better and faster and can also improve your productivity more effectively.
- Try to deal with the most important/or most difficult things in the morning as much as possible. As I mentioned above, after a whole night’s good sleep, your body and mind will be refreshed and will help you do your best job. You will have great creativity in the morning. So, you can try forming habits like this:
The combination of all these things will not only help you stay focused, but also greatly improve your learning efficiency.
- Take Control of Email Distractions: E-mail is an essential part of our study life, and it is impossible for every student to stay away from e-mail. Whether you like it or not, many of our communications today are conducted via email. Unfortunately, many people do not have the right tools to control their inbox. After you have scheduled tasks for the day, you still need to check your inbox, reply to and archive emails, and this daily activity will eventually take a lot of time. In order to efficiently manage your important emails, you should download a mail management software, this helps you have more time to focus on other important tasks.
We provide students with an incredible range of software to help students save time and improve study efficiency through the use of technology. All of our apps are designed to be fast, elegant, easy to use, and good at helping you complete your learning tasks. Therefore, during the COVID-19 pandemic, they are good partners for students and educators, providing motivation throughout new academic year. So, let us learn more about what software can help students and educators in new academic year.
Scheduling Online Classes and Remembering Due Dates for Homework
As the pandemic forces everyone to stay at home, schools have switched to online courses using web conferencing software and services such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Students must attend classes and learn all the content taught through these online courses. Choosing our Reminder product can better control the schedule. The timetable of all your courses has been added to Reminder to remind you every morning what the plan is for the day, and help you prepare the corresponding information. Reminder can not only connect with the course timetable and automatically reminded, but also can connect with Zoom or Teams at the same time, can automatically jump to Zoom or Teams for students while reminding. Not only that, but Reminder can also help students effectively plan deadline and examination time, through the natural language input function, students can simply enter content such as “math exam at 10 am on Monday” and quickly add it as to-do item. If the student receives an email related to the meeting time, Reminder can automatically recognize time information and set a reminder. If students return to school, to-do-list function can help the students start a new life and arrange everything needed for them. This is an easy-to-operate software that is convenient for students to study and live.
Organizing Emails and Study Effectively
Through many communicating apps and platforms thrive in recent years, Email is still a powerful, stable, reliable and independent communication method. Using email clients, students can use send and receive Email without restrictions. Therefore, many schools, colleges and universities still prefer to communicate via email as the only official channel. In fact, most of universities provide exclusive e-mail addresses for students to use. Our Email client – Holymail can help students effectively manage their own emails and multiple email addresses. Holymail client has a wealth of functions, supports multiple email logins at the same time, and provides the best email experience on your personal device. Our client can implement smart screening, only notify you when you receive important emails, and silently notify all unimportant notifications, such as subscription emails, until you are ready to dispose them. Not only that, Holymail also provides a read receipt function. After you send an email, you will automatically get a receipt if the recipient reads your email. Holymail will also automatically associate with LinkedIn pages through your address list, which is convenient for you to connect with the person or company you interested in. This product is a very useful and powerful tool for both students and educators.
Take Great Notes and Find What You Need Fast
Knowledge is your most important asset and competitive advantage. Taking notes is a very good way to learn and record knowledge. How to take notes is a very personal matter. Do you carefully divide headings, sections, and bullet points, or scribble things quickly in random place? Do you prefer plain text or use the scrapbook more? How do you index and find old notes? No matter what method you use, our Note product can satisfy your fantasies about notes. If you prefer handwriting, you can directly add your handwritten notes, or convert them into printed notes and support for screen projection, we also have a variety of fonts, stickers for you to choose. At the same time, Note has different templates, which are suitable for different note content, including meeting notes, class notes, creative briefs, reading lists, etc. Students can enter the knowledge points of each subject into product kiwi to create private database for themselves to review before exams. It is undeniable that taking notes can help students learn efficiently and organized.
You’ve learned how to manage your classes, emails and notes effectively. Let’s summarize these management tips for students: Plan your classes and due dates ahead, make all your emails organized, manage knowledge you learned, and reward yourself with a good rest.