Back-to-School Apps Every Parent Should Know About
Student Study Apps are designed to help your children with homework, make learning fun and easy, and teach your children organizational skills. But these apps are most effective if your Wi-Fi service also offers parental control tools that monitor your child’s progress and allow you to communicate directly with their teachers and advisors.
With MyWiFi Xtreme by Home Telecom, parents enjoy advanced network control and management. The Experience IQ feature lets parents set content restrictions, monitor online activity and set time limits.
There are popular student study apps and apps that help with homework, based on the mode of learning that works best for each child. For students who thrive in traditional, self-paced learning, apps like the following can help support focus, organization and effective note-taking:
- Photomath helps your child with math by simply snapping a picture of an equation or by drawing one on the screen and receiving a step-by-step explanation for how to solve it.
- Brainly lets students ask all types of questions on any school subject and they get expert-verified answers.
- Anki helps kids build long-term memory using repetition to memorize dense terminology and formulas.
- Quizlet uses over 500 million pre-made user study sets to create a popular flashcard app.
- Grammarly provides a digital writing assistant that not only corrects spelling and grammar but explains mistakes so students can learn and improve their essays.
- Khan Academy targets young children ages two to eight years with free lessons and practice exercises for math, science, history, and grammar.
For students who tend to absorb information by doing something, seeing patterns and solving puzzles, internet learning games are often more effective:
- The fantasy role-playing game Prodigy Math challenges students to correctly answer math questions while battling monsters to level up.
- Minecraft, Education Edition is excellent for kids over eight years old. It uses the familiar block-building world to teach coding, history, and science.
Student Planner apps are excellent tools for older students from high school through college and these apps are often so effective, a student can use them straight through school and into their first jobs and careers. They use powerful task managers to keep students organized and teach them punctuality.
The more popular student planner apps track deadlines and sync assignments and exams directly to personal calendars. They provide offline or mobile access to syllabi, reading materials, and grades without a laptop and many of them have study tools like built-in flashcards, quizzes, and digital study groups. They can even replace physical access cards for libraries, dorms, and campus events and have interactive maps to help students find classrooms, dining halls, and parking spots.
MyStudyLife is a popular student planner app designed to help students who struggle with procrastination, who miss deadlines, and suffer from academic stress. It addresses the real demands of student life from organization to time and workload management and productivity.
The myHomework Digital Planner also provides structure, assignment tracking and offers parent and teacher integration and academic coaching.
When it comes to apps for parent communication, the choice is usually made by the teacher, school, or district. Two widely used options are Remind and Parent Square, both offering two-way messaging, progress updates, event scheduling, reminders, and translation into multiple languages in a safe, private and secure environment.
Finally, MyWiFi Xtreme gives parents full control of your home network with monitoring capabilities for all installed apps.
Parents can create profiles for each member of your household and at any time, a parent can view each member’s device and its online activity; add content restrictions and time limits for use, and block access to apps, websites and games.
Parents adjust settings without restricting their own Internet usage but still set bandwidth priorities, track daily data usage, and pause internet access for punitive purposes.
No matter what apps you choose for your family, MyWiFi Xtreme gives you the tools to feel confident, informed, and in control of your family's online safety.