Helpful Links for Students

Brockport Resources

• Academic Support Services - Check out all the great academic support services the University has to offer!
• The School of Business Administration & Economics: Center for Student Success
• GPA calculator - Keep track of your GPA, stay in good academic standing.
• The ETC - Provides instruction, guidance, and facilities to support the enhancement of the learning experience through the creation of audio, video, graphics, and web-based content to further SUNY Brockport’s mission of student success.

External Resources

• How to Learn & Metacognition:
  • Popular free course: Learning How to Learn offered by Coursera

• Study Skills:
  • HowToStudy.org - The best site to improve your learning strategies.
  • Study Skills and Memory Improvement - Middle Tennessee State University’s page on brain-based study strategies.
  • Lecture Note Taking - A research-based article that compares taking notes with a laptop versus taking notes with pen and paper.
  • Lecture Note Taking - This article cites studies that prove that taking notes improves test scores.
  • SQ3R : - Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review - a great technique for comprehensive textbook reading and notetaking
  • Index of Learning Styles - Take 44 question survey and see where you lie on the four learning styles scales. Then read about how you can study more efficiently and how you can obtain a deeper level of learning.
  • Quizlet - Turn your study material into flashcards, tests, and other study aids, then study away!
  • Study Skills from Pepperdine
  • College InfoGeek Studying and Leanring
  • College InfoGeek How to Study for Any Test
  • Purdue’s Time Management for Busy College Students
    
    
• American Sign Language:
  
  • Signing Savvy
    
  • Lifeprint
    
  • Handspeak

• General:
  • Khan Academy - Free video mini lessons for math, sciences, economics and more. Also has a “knowledge map” to help you track your progress towards math mastery!
  • OER Commons - Open Educational Resources. Very comprehensive site!
  • Cerego - A great way to memorize facts. Even create your own digital quizzes.
  • Open SUNY - Affordable Learning Solutions
  • Why sleep is essential, from Dr. Maas of Cornell.
  • Sleep Well to Study Well, Maryville University

• Anatomy & Physiology:
  • BioDigital Human - Free downloadable program: a virtual 3D human body which students can use to aid with studying. Isolate body systems and make notes. (Requires Mozilla Firefox)
  • Anatomy Arcade - Free site to help students study Anatomy in a fun way, using games and videos.

• Writing & Citations:
  • Writing Handouts from UNC Chapel Hill: Resources include a comprehensive selection of handouts on all aspects of writing.
  • Council of Science Editors (CSE) Style Guide
  • Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) Resources include citation style guides, writing mechanics, and more.

• Math:
  • My Open Math - The best site to learn pre-algebra, algebra, and trigonometry, at your own pace; totally free; contains e-books and videos
  • CalcWorkshop - Another really nice site - free videos on Precalculus through Differential Equations.
  • Math TV - Free videos on how to solve different types of problems from basic mathematics through single variable calculus. Also includes explanations in Spanish.
  • Educator - I’d recommend watching their free videos for understanding fundamental math topics
  • Essential Trigonometry Facts quizlet - created by your very own SLC Director
  • Kiryl Tsishchanka’s teaching website - videos and practice problems on Precalculus through advanced math

• Statistics:
  • SPSS Tutorials - Tutorial on using SPSS