Have an idea for the next GradeGuru tool that would make your assignments, papers, projects easier? We want to hear from you! Tell us what type of applications would help you the most with your classwork. If we end up using your idea, we’ll give you credit and 1,000 GradeGuru Bonus Points.

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GradeGuru Link List tool from The GradeGuru Team on Vimeo.

Update: GradeGuru Link List is now available as a Firefox add-on.  To install visit Firefox: GradeGuru Link List

We’ve just released the GradeGuru Link List- a time-saving tool for instructors and students alike. Instructors can easily create annotated reading lists with a single shortened URL to share with their students. Students can then access the assignment with one simple link.

If you are working in a group and want to share a bunch of links with your comments, or save a set of online favorites with your notes for a paper that you might use later, just create a Link List, capturing the URLs as you go and Link List will provide a single destination URL.

How to install and use:

• Go to gradeguru.com/tools
• Make sure your Bookmarks Toolbar is visible
• Drag the Link List icon up to your Bookmarks Toolbar
• Start aggregating your links as you browse the web

Watch our Video Tutorial:

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After scouring the web to find the web applications most used by students, we created a list recognizing the Top 10 Web Applications for College Students. Check out which ones made it below. (some of which will help you study for your upcoming finals)

Top 10 web applications for college students:

1. Facebook although no longer just for college students, this site is still a very big part of university life and some web savvy professors are using it for course management and student interaction
2. Unigo the leading university review site and an editorial resource for college news and advice
3. GradeGuru Citation Manager a bookmarklet that helps you collect and manage citations in APA and MLA style straight from your browser (a bit self-loving we know but this will make bibliographies and citations for your final papers a breeze!)
4. Chegg the #1 textbook rental site
5. GradeGuru Link List available as a bookmarklet & FireFox Add-On is a time-saving tool for instructors and students alike that captures URLs as you browse the web and provides a single destination URL to easily share resources with students  and classmates
6. Thinkfold real-time group collaboration for project planning and assignments
7. GradeFix time management tool that helps students organize their study time and plan their assignments more efficiently
8. Google Apps Google applications such as Google Documents, Calendar and GMail have become a standard suite of tools for college students
9. Pidgin (software based IM) and Meebo (web based IM) are the most popular multi-network IM clients used by college students (note: some consider IM to be as much of a distraction as they are a tool for collaboration)
10. Mindmeister online mind mapping and collaboration tool with iPhone apps and offline client solutions

What other applications do you use for learning, collaborating, course management, etc?

GradeGuru Citation Manager from The GradeGuru Team on Vimeo.

Update: GradeGuru Citation Manager is now available as a Firefox add-on.  To install visit Firefox: GradeGuru Citation Manager

We’ve just released the Citation Manager Bookmarklet – a great tool for automatically capturing your sources for papers, essays and assignments straight from your browser. In our next release we will be adding the ability to save your citations to your GradeGuru account and access them from any computer. We’ll keep you posted!

How to Install & Use:

• Go to gradeguru.com/tools
• Add Citation Manager to your toolbar (see the video below – really easy!)
• Start doing your research and automatically capture the quotes and references you need
• Paste the automatically created citations into your paper, ppt, Google doc, etc

Watch our Video Tutorial