6 Apps for Boosting the Lives of University Students

An ultimate list of applications for college students.

The pandemic, which affected the whole world, also affected the education sector. I would like to propose applications for university students that can both entertain and support school life. A short but successful list of note-taking applications, photo-taking applications, online course applications.

Notion

Notion is a note-taking application that offers databases, calendars and reminders. Users can keep their notes in an organized manner, and thanks to the features it offers, the note pages stand out in terms of visual and usability. You can use Notion both personally and with your teammates.

There are ready-made templates for many topics in the application and you can create your own templates if you want. You can also import files such as Google Docs and Word documents into the application.

You can also add to-do list, numbered list, link for other pages, table, gallery, picture, sound and video to the created pages. You can view the past changes of a rendered page and also restore an entire past version.

The application can be used on many Apple devices such as iPhone, iPad, iMac. Also you can use them on other computers and tablets.

Adobe Scan

There are many applications for smartphones and mobile devices that take photos and save them as documents. But Adobe stands out by adding artificial intelligence to this application. The application includes an artificial intelligence called Sensi that recognizes the texts in the document you photographed and converts it into text. You can open and edit the texts scanned by Adobe Scan in a text editing program, save them as PDFs and use them elsewhere.

The Sensi feature has a wide range of capabilities. It cleans the document you photographed, erases the shadows; it even corrects perspective curvatures. It determines the edges of the document and even cuts off the excess; You can also fine tune if you want.

Udemy

In 2007, by Turkish entrepreneurs Bali I Udemy.co developed software for a live virtual classroom in Turkey; It is educational technology for adults and students, massive online open tutoring and an online learning platform.

Udemy has over 30 million students and 50,000 lecturers in over 60 languages. There are students and instructors from more than 190 countries on the platform, where more than 245 million courses are registered.

Udemy acts as a platform that allows instructors to create online courses on topics of their choice. Using the specified tools, they can upload video, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents, audio files, zip files and live lectures to create courses.

Students take courses largely as a tool to improve their work-related skills. They contribute to their careers by certifying these courses they take.

Forest

Forest is an app that encourages you not to look at your phone, allowing you to work more efficiently or socialize in real life. If you want to leave your phone temporarily and focus on the important things in real life, you can start by planting a virtual seed in Forest. As time passes, this seed grows into a tree. But you cannot stop using your phone and if you exit the application, your tree dries up.

The sense of success and responsibility encourages you to stay away from your phone and help you use your time better. Believing in the ideas of stop being distracted with your phone, motivate yourself and achieve more, the app was awarded in many countries in 2018.

The motivating part is that you can spend the coins you earn in the app to plant real trees.

Canva

The design tool, which you can easily access from many devices, allows you to easily make the design you want thanks to the features it offers free of charge.

Thanks to the many auxiliary tools it contains, it is possible to make arrangements through ready-made templates in Canva, which offers an easy use for you to turn any idea into any design you want. Canva, which meets all your needs from social media accounts to poster design, enables you to put your creativity wherever you want with mobile application support.

The design tool, which is also available in a premium version, will meet most of your needs in the free version.

Khan Academy

Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization founded in 2006 by educator Salman Khan with the motto “Free education for everyone, everywhere, world class”.

The platform is a library supported by gamification mechanisms for individual learning with lecture videos, interactive exercises and tests prepared for many different fields and levels over the internet, and can also determine the level of the student and guide them; It offers a personalized education tool that can report learning data to teachers or parents.

Used by 100 million students and 2 million teachers every year, all the content published by Khan Academy is free for everyone around the world.