Top 10 Free Resources Every Student Should Know About
There are countless free resources online for students, all of varying quality. This blog post aims to distill those resources into a short list of our top 10 absolute favorite resources. Sign up for our email list at the bottom if you’d like content like this in your inbox!
Khan Academy: Khan Academy offers over 10,000 videos and articles covering a variety of topics, all of them free of charge. The platform is ideal for studying, with practice exercises and assessments to track your progress. Khan Academy has saved many students’ grades — definitely check it out if you have not already.
Coursera: Coursera is an online learning platform offering free courses from leading universities around the world. You can audit courses for free and upgrade to a paid certificate to strengthen your resume
edX: Another platform offering free courses from leading universities around the world, edX’s courses are designed to give students the skills they need to succeed in the future.
Wolfram Alpha: Wolfram Alpha is an online computation tool capable of answering countless math and science problems, making it ideal for those studying math, science, and engineering.
Desmos: Desmos is a free online graphing calculator perfect for math and science students. Desmos drastically simplifies graphical visualization, which can be a huge help when learning new topics (algebra, calculus, etc.).
Grammarly: Grammarly is an online grammar-checking software offering free account options. It offers suggestions on how to make your writing clearer, more descriptive, and free of errors.
Quizlet: Quizlet is an online flashcard tool helping to study and memorize topics. It provides pre-made sets of flashcards as well as tools to create your own.
Google Drive: Google Drive offers a variety of free tools such as Docs, Sheets, and Slides, perfect for collaborating on documents or creating presentations. Our favorite tool, by far, in Drive is Sheets, as its incredible flexibility allows you to plan tasks, crunch numbers, track progress, and much more.
Sololearn: Sololearn is one of many great platforms offering free coding classes in languages such as HTML, CSS, Python, and Java. It also offers paid courses in more advanced topics. Other great platforms include Codecademy, Freecodecamp, Code Wars, and many others. If you do decide to try one out, we recommend sticking with one and seeing it through!
YouTube: While this may be obvious to some, YouTube is a fantastic source of free information. Thousands of channels offer educational content covering a wide range of topics, and the video format often makes complex content easier to understand.
Make sure to look into some of these resources in the future — you’ll never know how helpful they might be until you try them out. If you found this helpful, sign up for our mailing list at the bottom of this page to get content like this in your inbox!
