1. The Freshman App Pack: Educational & Productivity
Ricky Calderon, Tran Nguyen, Erika Perin, Kyle Turner
Group 7

2. App Pack Goals
The goal of our Freshman App Pack is to provide students with educational and productivity apps that will assist them in doing various things to be more successful in their coursework. This App Pack will help ease the freshman’s transition into the college experience.

3. App Pack Scope and Requirements
Helps students be more successful in their coursework by:
Providing a search tool to help select the “best” teachers for their courses.
Providing easy mobile access to their courses.
Providing access to facts and data, and obtain assistance with computations.
Providing students with access to supplemental course materials.

4. RateMyProfessors Price: Free
The Rate My Professor app gives the student the capability of researching professors for upcoming semesters.
Through reviews, students can read what previous students felt about certain professors and how they affected their experience.
Students can also provide their own feedback through writing reviews and ratings.
Students have the ability to search over 6,000 schools or over 1 million professors across the United States.
Debuting in 2009, RateMyProfessor is the only successful app of it’s kind! It has over 13 million reviews, making it a reliable source for students everywhere.

5. RateMyProfessors

6. Blackboard Mobile Learn
Price: Free (linked with School), $1.99/year, or $5.99 (unlimited pass)
Mobile app that helps students easily keep track of their courses
View course content
ie. HW, assignments, lecture notes, etc…
View course grades
Receive push notifications of course activity
Easily communicate with instructors and/or classmates
Read and write discussion posts
Send s to instructors or other students
Take mobile-friendly tests *
*(not all tests are mobile-friendly)
Extremely beneficial for students whose school utilizes this e-learning system

7. Blackboard Mobile Learn

8. Wolfram Alpha
Price: $2.99
Wolfram Alpha is the perfect app for freshman taking entry level courses.
This app provides endless data - from physics to algebra to stocks and company information.
It can also compute your input from an outsourced data and simplify it according to your specific request.
This app minimizes web searching time and increases factual knowledge.
This is a very popular app; it has a rating of of 4.5 out of 5 stars at the iTunes store.
It is a leader in student resources and can be of great benefit to students everywhere.

9. Wolfram Alpha

10. iTunes U
Price: Free
Free online catalog of education content from leading institutions
Video and Audio lectures
Class notes and exercises
PowerPoint presentations
One of the world’s largest online catalogs
Has course materials for just about any subjects
ie. Marketing, Financing, Biochemistry, Physics, etc…
Content may be streamed or downloaded for offline use
Requires iTunes (iOS or Windows)
Notes are easily saved and shared (on Apple Platform)
May be used in conjunction with current coursework material
Helps reinforce or clarify lessons

11. iTunes U