General
College InfoGeek
Site with useful advice to help you learn effectively, spend less time studying, and become more productive
Student Success Toolbox
This digital toolbox aims to help you get studying by helping you think about your readiness for study
Study skills
A short video from MSLETB aimed at people who have been out of education for a while to help them get back to studying.
Study Tips for Me
Find, read and share useful tips for study and learning created by students in higher education
Crash Course: Study skills
Crash Course is an educational YouTube channel. This is their study skills course
Apps
Zapier: The 6 best note-taking apps in 2023
Zapier dioes app reviews and this is their recommendations for note-taking apps
10 Best Study Apps for Students
10 of the best study apps to help you make flashcards, mind maps, create citations and work efficiently
The 10 Best Study Planning Apps for All Students
These study planner apps for Android and iPhone help you get organized in school by tracking your assignments, tests, and other coursework.
Coffitivity
Noisli
A "freemium" (Simple Wikipedia definition ) web productivity app that creates an ambient soundscape for blocking out distracting background noise, reducing stress and anxiety and improving concentration while working or studying
Classes
Listening and Participation
Tips on how to improve your listening and retention, as well as participation
Reading
Get Studying with the SQ3R Method (PDF)
A plainly written, but more detailed look at the SQ3R reading method
Making Notes
Cornell Note-Taking Template
Download and print this Microsoft Word template for note-taking in the Cornell style
40 Free Cornell Note Templates
Don't like that Cornell template? Here are some others to try
How to Take Notes in Class: The 5 Best Methods - College Info Geek
A brief but engaging video summarising 5 note-taking methods (remember the best note-taking method is the one that works for you)
How to take great notes
Another engaging video on better notetaking
Note-taking template for journal articles
Use this Word template for taking notes when reading a journal article
Group Work
5 tips for dealing with lazy group project members
Video with some advice for dealing with group members who aren't pulling their weight
Presentations
Basic tasks for creating a PowerPoint presentation
Microsoft's step by step guide to creating a PowerPoint presentation
How to learn PowerPoint quickly (complete 2020 beginner's guide)
A more detailed look at creating presentations in PowerPoint
Giving a talk or presentation
Useful advice aimed at students
Presentation skills and tools
Tutorial providing a general introduction to approaches to giving presentations
Prezi
Time to learn Prezi
Prezi's help section, with video tutorials
Slideshare
Slideshare is an online platform that hosts presentations. Lots of presentations. You can get an idea of what presentations looks like and what they contain. Slideshare also hosts many presentations on creating good presentations, such as this one
Technically Speaking
Although aimed at university science students, this site has some good advice, illustrated in video form, on improving your presentations and covers preparation and delivery
Exams
Top Exam Preparation Tips
Offers some ideas, based on experience and expert opinion, to help those still quite new to exams
SpunOut: Your Guide to Surviving College Exams
Find out how to prepare for college exams and what to expect
100 Top Tips for Exam Success
Teachers, students and exam veterans provide their top tips to the Irish Times
NUI Galway: Exam Checklist
Some advice about what you need to know before, during and after exams
UCC: Perparing for Exams
Some good advice about exams and how to prepare for them
Time Management
A short guide to managing your time
VIDEO ;
How to Stop Procrastinating
Animated 5 minute video detailing three steps you can take to stop procrastinating
VIDEO
Forest
Can't stop scrolling? Have trouble focusing? Use Forest, a timer which helps you beat procrastination and boost productivity
Microsoft To Do
Microsoft task management web app (also available for Apple and Android devices)
8 Website Blockers For Studying, Productivity, & Focus
A listing of some apps - some free - that block websites, or the whole Internet,so you can focus on your work
10 Time Management Tips That Work
According to Entrepreneur magazine.
15 Best Time Management Apps and Tools (2023 Updated)
If you want to look at an app that will help you manage your time better here's a list of apps that might help you with the most common challenges of managing time.
Time Management for Busy Students
Free ebook written by Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Canada) Learning Centre
Tomato Clock
Browser extension for managing your productivity. by breaking down your work into 25 minute Pomodoro intervals
Stress
Aware
Aware provides support & information for people who experience depression or bipolar disorder and their concerned loved ones
Managing Exam Stress
Mental Health Ireland
Promoting positive mental health and wellbeing to all individuals and communities in Ireland
Pieta House
Pieta provides free therapy to those engaging in self-harm, with suicidal ideation, or bereaved by suicide
Samaritans Ireland
The Samaritans aim to provide support to anyone in emotional distress, struggling to cope, or at risk of suicide
SpunOut
Ireland's youth information website focusing on wellbeing and good physical and mental heatlh
turn2me
A web space for people to share, discuss and offload personal problems, find support and get useful information
