It can be frustrating for parents to juggle their child’s school work along with their job commitments. Students often struggle to keep up with their school work and chores.’ Be it missing parent-teacher conferences due to time constraints, forgetfulness, or students forgetting to complete their assignments; it is hard for parents to keep up. Here are our top 10 apps that can help parents and students get their school and personal life organized.
For who: Middle school and High school students and their parents.
How it Works: The app helps students organize their home works and projects. The app can sync between desktop and phone. Parents can also download the app and sync it with their children’s devices to know how much of the work is done. Students can input all their assignments and also update their deadlines to help themselves finish projects on time. The app sends reminders, stores information on the subject and has the class scheduling tab for student’s class timetable. The app updates itself as and when the project gets completed. Parents can access the app and see the progress of the projects their children are working on.
Price: The basic version is free. It allows tracking assignments, projects, tests, etc. Track classes, receive due date reminders, lets you sync between devices and has upcoming homework widgets.
Available on: App and Mac Store, Android, Windows Store, Google Play, Chrome Webstore, Amazon Store (for Kindle Fire) and on Web Browser.
For who: The whole family
What does it do: The most important feature of this app is that it shares your tasks/events for the day with your family (when the share button is enabled). Therefore, an upcoming event will be on the list for the whole family to remember. The app also helps with organizing your tasks and commitments including events, scheduling extra work time, etc. The app helps chronicles calendar events, has a to-do list and reminders. It also has tabs for groceries list, journaling memories, which can be shared with other family members. It also has a recipe box tab that helps you share recipes with your family member.
The grocery list on the app updates itself in real time as and when you tick the check box for each item. Co-ordinating everybody’s schedules in a secure place. The app is great to let each other know about parent-teacher meeting sessions and other reminders.
Price: The basic version is available for free.
Available on: App Store, Android, Windows Store and on Web Browser.
For who: Pre-teens and parents
What does it do: The app is designed as a game for getting things done. It lists all the chores/assignments to be done by the child. The deadlines can be set as well. Chore Pad is a chore chart that can be used at home, in the classroom or both. It follows the reward system, where in the child is rewarded with points for getting chores done.
The app also comes with a ‘Parent Mode’ which helps keeps children from tinkering with the listed items. Parent Mode keeps Chore Pad kid-friendly by hiding the important setup features safely behind a parental gate. The particular setting is used to configure users, chores, rewards, syncing and more. You can passcode protect access to Parent Mode to prevent curious children from tinkering with the tasks and rewards that you've so carefully crafted.
Price: Free for the basic version
Available on: App Store and Android
For who: Teens and parents
What does it do: Habitica is a video game that "gamifies" your life by turning all your tasks (habits, dailies, and to-dos) into little monsters you have to conquer. The better you are at this, the more you progress in the game. The child will be able to earn points after completing tasks and at the same time can lose points and fall levels when unable to complete the chore. It also has an online portal to compete with friends on winning levels and getting higher points and ‘gifts’ in the form of accessories for your avatar.
The game even lets you go for a ‘Group Plan’ where you can set up a shared task list for the group that everyone in the group can quickly view and edit. Assign tasks to group members. Claim a job that you are working on to earn more rewards. It’s particularly useful to parents with more than one school going child.
Price: You can join for free. Group Plan costs $9 every month + $3 a month for every additional group member.
Available on: App Store, Android, and on Web Browser.
For who: High School Students, Parents
What does it do: The app lets you organize your child’s classes, tasks, and exams. My Study Life imitates your paper planner except that it gives you reminders and take into account rotation classes and more. It also lets you know which classes conflict with their exam. There is a section for to-do lists that help your child keep up with his/her extra curricular practices as well as their projects. The app shows the amount of work completed for each assignment/project.
The tasks section of the app sends you reminders regarding the assignments that you have not completed. It also alerts you to the scheduled classes and exams. For parents of middle-schoolers, the app helps keep track of the student’s classes and extra-curricular activities for each month. It also allows the person to keep track of the exams and rotation classes the students might have scheduled for the month.
Price: Free
Available on: App Store, Android, Windows Store, Microsoft Store and on Web Browser.
For who: Parents
What does it do: Whether you’re planning a holiday, sharing a shopping list with a partner or managing multiple work projects, Wunderlist helps you tick off all your personal and professional to-dos. Organize and share your to-do, work, grocery, movies and household lists. Set Due Dates and Reminders and Assign to-dos. You do have an option for keeping lists quiet with a ‘Do not Disturb button.' You can duplicate a list as well as restore accidentally deleted lists.
The app also has integrations with Slack, Google Now, Zapier, and Hip Chat. You can also prioritize the lists with Hashtags. Share your files and work collaboratively on projects with your colleagues, friends, and family. However, collaborating with teammates and members require you to upgrade to Wunderlist Pro version.
Price: Free for basic version. Wunderlist Pro for $4.99 per month
Available on: iOS and Android
For who: Parents
How it Works: The app is purely for completing tasks. The gesture-based interface is completely free of clutter. Fully customizable task list: label, time, icon and colour. iCloud sync, multiple lists and virtually unlimited number of tasks. Options let you control how you are notified.
The main screen is completely free of buttons. Instead, you use gestures to manipulate the functions and navigate through the app. Subtle visual clues, animations and other attention-to-detail make 30/30 unique. The app lets you focus on a single task. You work for 30 minutes, focused only on a single task, with no distractions. When the time is up, you give your mind a break and do something completely unrelated, also for 30 minutes. And then you repeat the cycle: work/break, work/break – 30/30. The tasks you do are completely up to you.
The activities you do during breaks are also completely up to you. 30/30 app has been enhanced to include more. You can give each task its own time – from 1 minute to 1 hour and create as many tasks as you like. The interface gives you subtle reminders to help you: each task is assigned a colour. When it’s time for that task to start, the screen changes to that colour.
Price: Free
Available on: App Store
For who: Parents
How it Works: The Ministry of Interior's Hemayati app allows parents to have real-time communication with their kids, letting you know exactly where they are; instrumental in cases of emergencies. The app also has safety and emergency alert services, so parents can rest assured that they will always be in the loop. It keeps track of the child through GPS systems as well.
Price: Free
Available on: App Store and Android
For who: Parents and Students
How it Works: We are twisting the definition of an app to include this perfect website that can help parents and students alike with their studies. The website -Be a learning Hero, is study resource portal for both parents and students. It has the relevant study material for all grades and equips parents with the necessary resources to help their children with homework.
Clear, consistent learning goals describe what your child needs to know and understand before the end of the year in math and English language arts. As a parent, it’s critical for you to be informed so that you can help support your child at home. Learning Heroes is here to help you navigate what’s happening in the classroom.
The website has a Readiness Roadmap section which is a guide to help you along the way — from what your child is expected to learn each school year, to how you can support your child’s emotional health and happiness, to starting the college financing process. It also provides simple ways you can help your child at home.
Price: Free
Available on: Web Browser
For who: Parents and Students
How it Works: For parents struggling with their student’s math problems, here is a simplified solution. Download the app and point your camera toward a math problem and Photomath will show the result with detailed step-by-step instructions. The app also provides camera calculator, recognizes handwritten problems, gives step-by-step instructions to solve the problem and also is equipped with a smart calculator. The Photomath+ is an upgraded version which includes complete step-by-step instructions, colourful explanations, additional math knowledge.
Photomath supports arithmetic, integers, fractions, decimal numbers, roots, algebraic expressions, linear equations/in equations, quadratic equations/files, absolute equations,ystems of equations, logarithms, trigonometry, exponential and logarithmic functions, derivatives and integrals.
Price: Free for the basic version. Photomath+ is free at the moment, however, users will be notified of the additional fee soon.
Available on: App Store and Google Play
