GPA Calculators, Bibliography Builders, Term Paper Assistance and More

Calculate Your GPA.
You can total your courses and credits with our online tool. If you want to raise your GPA, an additional calculator helps students determine how many credit hours and what grade average they will need to raise their current GPA.

Scholar Suite 2000.
Multi-featured software program that helps raise grades, create outlines or formatted bibliographies, and organize research and class notes. See also Scholar's Aid.

GuruNet.
Downloadable Web tool that provides more information on any word on a Web page. Just point and alt-click for fast results.

XemanteX (Web Reading Made Easy).
This nifty new tool enables you to visit a Web site and "grasp, understand and assimilate" any text on the page. It also enables you to translate the text into another language. Simply input the URL of the Web site you desire to read and select "Pass this URL." A new page will appear with a toolbar encompassing it. You will then be able to doubleclick on any text appearing on the page and read its definition in the bottom toolbar.

Personal Learning Style Inventory
Find out your personal learning style through this free online inventory.

Dictionary.com.
Provides an online dictionary, plus an encyclopedia and thesaurus. Translator allows you to enter text and translate from/to Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portugese, Russian, and Spanish.

Research Assistant.
Enables students to compile and organize research project information. Web pages, documents, and images are structured and can be accessed with a simple command or searched by keyword. See also Scribe and Choose the Best Search Engine for Your Needs.

Easy Notes.
Easy Notes makes it easy to manage your notes in electronic form with a user-friendly environment that can integrate sticky notes as well as calendar references. Each note supports rich-text formatting that is recognized by nearly all text editors. The software supports import and export of files. Notes can be "pinned" on the desktop.

FreeWriting and Mind Mapping.
The ultimate writing tool for brainstorming ideas and outlining a paper.

Create a Paper.
Template from Rio Salado provides assistance online in creating the rough draft of a standard five paragraph paper. See also Step-by-step Guide to Writing Term Papers and Thesis Builder.

NoodleBib.
Web-based interactive tool (requiring a paid subscription) that assists with online research and in creating formatted bibliographies. See also OttoBib and MLA Bibliography Builder. Do you use Microsoft Word? Learn how to format a paper in MLA style. (Additional bibliographical resources: Bibliographies Made Easy, Easy Bib and Citation Machine.)

Web Wordsmith.
This tool conveniently links all the words on a page to online references such as the Merrian-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus as well as a computer and acronym dictionary.

Plagiarism Self-Tester.
How not to commit a "sin of omission." See also How Not to Plagiarize.

QuickMath.
Automatic math solutions with this easy online tool. See also WebMath.