Academic Resources

TIme Management & Productivity

• How Good Is Your Time Management? Take this assessment and find out
• Doodling Helps You Pay Attention
• A Challenge to Make You More Productive
• Habitica: Habit-building and productivity app

Study and Test Prep

• Check your Study Skills: Effective habits for effective study
• Tips for Building your Study Schedule
• Recommendations for Organizing your Study Time
• Four Steps to Understand How you Learn
• Ten Tips for Terrific Test Taking: Interactive tips for better test taking

Goal Setting

• Beeminder Accountability: Automated Goal Setting App

Focus and Procrastination

• How to Improve Concentration 
• Can’t Focus? Try These 7 Simple ADHD Concentration Tips

FOCUS AIDS

• Pomodoro Method
• Focus@Will: Reduce Distractions with Music

Managing Your Time on the Internet

• Freedom:  Help protect your time and attention from online distractions
• FocusMe: Schedule focus sessions, block websites, track time, set breaks, etc.
• Rescue Time: Track online activity, block websites, set alerts
• Minutes Please: Online timer, pop-up alert, and access block

Academic Wellness

Explore a variety of mindful meditations:

• UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center: Meditation Podcasts
• University of North Carolina Meditation & Mindfulness: Meditation 101 & Mindful Activities
• UNC Relaxation Audio Sessions
• 6 Mindfulness Exercises You Can Try Today
• Calm: A mindfulness app for clarity and peace
• Headspace: A gym membership for the mind

The importance of sleep

• 5 Relaxation Techniques for Better Sleep
• Calming Exercises to Help You Sleep
• Sleep, Learning, & Memory
• Healthy Sleep Tips
• 12 Tips to Sleep Soundly Every Night
• 9 Things In Your Dorm Room Impacting Your Sleep
• Let Music Serenade You to Sleep

Food to fuel your brain

• 75 Healthy Snacks– Great snack ideas to consider during finals or simply when you are busy
• Nutrition as a Stress Management Tool
• Healthy Foods to Eat for Brain Power: Food to boost concentration and performance
• 9 Tricks to Healthy Eating, Even When you are Busy

Stress management

• Great Tips for Proactive Stress Management
• A Guide for Managing your Stress
• Good Stress, Bad Stress: Not all stress is bad and some stress can be helpful

Test anxiety

• Managing Test Anxiety
• Techniques for Addressing Test Anxiety Before and During an Exam

More Resources

• Time Management
• Learning Exercises and Games
• Problem solving
• Managing Stress
• Motivating yourself
• Collaborative/cooperative learning
• Thinking critically
• Reading critically
• Reading difficult material
• Writing research papers
• Organizing projects
• Math tests
• Seven stages of writing assignments
• Writing lab reports
• Writing position papers
• Taking notes in lectures