Please view this information to help your transition to online coursework
Please view this information from Rebecca Sturgill, Director of Center of Academic Success at Longwood University
Read & Write Gold
Read and Write: This is a program that you can download on your computer or other electronic device that will read aloud a PDF or Word file. There are many other benefits to this application like highlighting, talk and type, translator, and more! You do not need to be registered through the Office of Disability Resources (ODR) to use this.
How to download:
- Visit: https://www.texthelp.com/en-us/products/read-write/#
- Click on try now
- Choose your platform (Android, iPad, Windows, Mac OS, Chrome, Edge)
- Click install
- Select a product (Read and Write for (platform) –US
- It will take approx. 5 minutes to install
- Sign in with Microsoft outlook email (first.last@live.longwood.edu) and password
- The Read and Write toolbar will pop up
- Mess around and get comfortable
- ENJOY!
If you have any questions, please contact us at 434-395-2391 or email disabilityresources@longwood.edu.
Stress & Anxiety Management Apps:
- Oak: Allows users to choose from options that include meditating, breathing, and selecting sounds to help with falling asleep.
- Relaxing Melodies: Allows users to sleep through the night and relax with the use of 52+ melodies. Users can even create their own mixes and combinations of melodies.
- Pacifica: This app provides tools that were designed by a psychologist using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to decrease symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression. The app encourages daily sessions so the user can learn how to manage stress, anxiety, or depression. The app also offers a mood trackers, meditation, and breathing techniques.
- Headspace: Meditation-This app allows users to relax their mind by providing tips, meditation techniques, and skills to manage stress and anxiety. It can help the user achieve more effective sleep and improved functioning throughout the day.
- PureMind: Provides meditation courses, relaxation music, quick 5 minute support (stress relief and meditation), and color therapy.
- The Mindfulness App: Allows users to relax their mind, using meditation with timed session, Users can keep track of their journey and even customize their own meditations.
Apps that Block distractions:
SelfControl
Freedom
Anti-Social
FocusWriter
WriteRoom (for Macs)
Dark Room (for Windows)
StayFocusd
LeechBlock
FocusON
Focus
Cold Turkey
https://wallstreetinsanity.com/10-apps-that-block-distractions/
Free or inexpensive eBook Apps:
Open Library
Open Culture
Audible
Gutenberg
Cengage
epdf
Organization Apps:
Google Keep
Habitica
Todoist
Any.do
My STudy Life
Scholl
Excel student monthly planner
Homework2
Study Apps:
GoConqr
Evernote
Quizlet
StudyBlue
Marinara Timer
StudyStack
Memorize.com
Brainscape
Study Guides and Strategies
Schooltraq
DuoLingo (for foreign language)
HowToStudy
Udemy
Hippocampus
Grammarly
Safety & Physical Well Being Apps:
Circle of 6
MyFitnessPal
Passwords Apps:
LastPass
Dashlane