Tools
Use online tools to create an online portfolio, calculate the cost of college, receive online support, and more.
- Distance Education Saving Calculator - This calculator shows how much you can save when you take classes online.
- ELM (Electronic Library for Minnesota) - Search ELM for magazine, newspaper, and journal articles, eBooks, and information from reference sources—available to Minnesota residents at no charge!
- Electronic Portfolios - eFolioMinnesota - eFolioMinnesota, a Web-based portfolio, designed to help you create a living showcase of your education, career, and personal achievements.
- Financial Aid Estimator - The financial aid estimator will help you estimate your eligibility for a Federal Pell Grant, Minnesota State Grant, and federal education tax benefits.
- GPA Calculator - Calculate your GPA, which is the sum of the grade points earned divided by the total number of credits taken.
- Jane’s eLearning Top 10 Tools for 2009 - Prediction of top 10 online tools by Jane Hart, a social and media consultant.
- Map Your Future - Map your K12 journey to build your future for 21st century skills and higher education.
- Reality Check Tool - After you finish school, you will need to work to pay for housing, food, clothes, transportation, etc. Find out how much money you will need and which occupation will pay for all your needs.
- Research Project Calculator - The Research Project Calculator offers students a simple and comprehensive five-step model for navigating the research process.
- Scratch - Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design. Scratch is available free of charge.
- Study Skills - An online tool containing effective study habits and skills for all students, including some exercises.
- ToonDoo and Toonlet - These tools allow you to create your own cartoons easily from built-in tools and pre-defined characters. No artistic ability is required. You can customize the characters to change hair, eyes, nose, mouth, ears, body, outfits, and postures — and then save the characters for later re-use. Add some words and presto! Custom comical content.
- u.Select - online tool that will help you view college program requirements, course equivalencies; see how courses you have taken or plan to take transfer to another college or university.
- University of Minnesota Assignment Calculator - this tool helps you chart out steps and timeline to complete a research writing assignment.
- University of Minnesota Libraries "Tools and Widgets" page - listing of many different tools and widgets for direct use or incorporation into other applications; for the University of Minnesota.
