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Digital Resources
With the number of in-person resources available, it is sometimes easy to forget that you have access to digital resources as well.
These are just a few:
The ASC Blog and E-Guide written FOR students BY students.
Self-Service Technologies (apps & tools) offered at no cost to students.
Learning Assessments to understand how you learn.
Strategic Learning Videos created by the ASC.
ASC Blog & E-guide
Our student employees work with the ASC staff to brainstorm topics. Sometimes these topics are research based and the blog posts summarize key takeaways and other times the topics are student life specific and the blog post shares a student perspective offering their specific thoughts and opinions.
A passion project by former student intern, Jonathan Lu '19, who wrote The Dartmouth E-Guide to Academic Success during his senior year.
Self-Service Technologies
Tools and technology shared by our colleagues in Student Accessibility Services.
Kurzweil 3000
Kurzweil 3000 is an accessibility software designed to help students access course materials in college. With functions such as text-to-speech, highlighting, and integrated notetaking and brainstorming, this assistive technology enables students with learning differences to fully engage in what they are learning and to focus on the tasks at hand.
A free download and license of this software is available to all Dartmouth students, faculty, and staff.
Read&Write
Available to all Dartmouth students, faculty, and staff, Read&Write is an easy-to-use, intuitive toolbar add-on for PCs and Macs that supports reading, writing, studying, and research. Read&Write seamlessly integrates with Microsoft applications, PDFs, e-mail, the Internet, and other software.
SensusAccess
SensusAccess is a self-service, computer automated document conversion tool that allows students, faculty, and staff to convert documents into a variety of alternative formats including audio books (mp3, and DAISY), e-books (ePub, ePub3, Mobi), and digital Braille. The service can also be used to convert image-only PDF files or scanned images into more accessible formats.
SensusAccess is powered by RoboBraille service and supports numerous languages.
Note-Taking Apps
Review various note-taking apps and functions available to you with your Dartmouth email.
Microsoft Office Tutorials
Learn how to create accessible Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint Presentations, PDFs, and more!
Learning Assessments
The research on learning styles in inconclusive, but there can be value in understanding your learning preferences. Assess your learning and capitalize on your strengths.
Look Back to Look Forward
Keep | Release | Acquire: In this 30 minute reflection exercise, you'll assess the mindsets, habits, and resources that have supported you throughout the term (Keep) and those that have been a challenge (Release). You'll then Acquire new mindsets, habits, and resources to help you continue your growth at college. This will result in a list of Best Practices that you can reference whenever you're feeling stuck. SAMPLE
Felder's Index
The Felder's Index is a 44-question survey that takes about 5-10 minutes to assess your learning style along 8 domains: Active/Reflective, Sensing/Intuitive, Visual/Verbal, and Sequential/Global. Pair with the Learning Styles and Strategies handout to find new strategies to engage inside and outside of the classroom.
Developed by Barbara Soloman and Dr. Richard Felder, both from North Carolina State University.
Requires no username or password to take the test.
Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI)
The Learning and Study Skills Inventory is a quick, 80-item survey that assesses your study habits. It will provide you with a chart of your strengths and weaknesses, compared to other college students, in ten different areas. It will also provide suggestions about areas where you can improve your skills and strategies.
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Email Academic.Skills.Center@dartmouth.edu to get a username and password. These are required in order to take the inventory.
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Go to the LASSI site.
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Enter the school number, username and password and follow the instructions carefully. The inventory will take 10-20 minutes to fill out.
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After you submit the inventory, your scores will be calculated. You may print them for your convenience.
(Optional) Schedule an academic coaching session at the Academic Skills Center to discuss the meanings of your scores.
Strategic Learning Videos
These videos were produced, written, and edited by former ASC Director, Carl P. Thum, Ph.D., and Dartmouth's Media Production Services. The first videos were funded by a $10,000 Hewlett Grant in the early 1990's. The royalties generated by the national and international sales of those and subsequent videos contribute to supporting the mission of the Academic Skills Center at Dartmouth College.
Please click the cc button to the bottom right of each video for closed captioning/subtitles.
Video: Time Management
Methods for getting organized and making better use of your time.
Video: Reading Improvement
Strategies for improving reading rate and comprehension.
Video: Notetaking
Techniques for effectively recording and learning information from classes and lectures.
Video: Academic Success: Strategic Learning
A three-step process for meaningfully understanding and retaining information.
Video: Stress Management
Learn more about stress and stress management techniques.
Video: Academic Success: General Chemistry
Learning strategies for general chemistry.
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