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Created with students in mind, the Study Skills range from Barry Bennett will motivate, inspire and guide students through their studies. Easy to use, the tools and resources to help users plan work, improve skills and boost confidence.
The Barry Bennett Aspire Study Skills Strategies online Training Videos for PC and Mac uses IT based active learning study skills strategies to assist students with every aspect of their academic work. It focuses on five pillars of education: Research, Composition, Note taking, Proofreading and Time Management.
Study Skills
Aspire assists in the development of critical study skills to respond to the academic requirements of a student's chosen course.
Assistive Technologies & Software
Aspire can help with the use of recommended assistive technology and software systems to maximise students' learning potential and outcomes.
Mental Health & Wellbeing
Aspire helps management and maintenance of positive mental health and wellbeing strategies throughout their student journey, which evidence shows is critical to student attainment.
Career-Related Learning
Aspire helps in gaining relevant career related learning opportunities and employability skills as they progress along their student journey towards graduation to maximise their graduate outcome potential.
Pro-Study is the essential, innovative study tool that collects and organises your research, text, graphs and images in a single click and stores it all in a dedicated database that is easily accessible.
It quickly and effortlessly categorises your research topics by grabbing your specifically selected text and images from Websites, PDFs, MS Word and just about anywhere else you can select text and saving it into your personalised colour coded category tabs.
If text cannot be selected Pro-Study has an OCR feature that makes inaccessible text accessible, a very useful tool when accessing online books etc. You can also drag and drop whole files into your Pro-Study categories within your projects.
Organisation and Time Management
Pro-Study doesn't just bookmark whole websites it allows you to highlight specific text and just put that text into one of your pre-made categories within one of your projects. This gives you more time for the actually assignment rather than having to sift through countless websites.
User friendly project management
All of your research is in one place and it is easy to flick between projects, edit projects, edit categories and change what colours represent which categories.
Export your required research
You can export your required research straight into Microsoft Word. You can choose to either export a whole project or individual categories from the software's database. This allows you to use previous research from other projects in new assignments.
Effective referencing
Referencing is done for you as all the required information is automatically collected. You can simply change how Pro-Study references your research in the export options. This means that you don't have to choose from a predetermined list and then have to edit it later to meet specific requirements.
Global Tasks is an online task management solution that helps the users stay on top of their tasks and commitments. Designed to reduce stress and overwhelm, it provides an overview for when the users want to see the big picture, but also hides the unnecessary noise, aiding the user to focus on their highest priority tasks.
Get things out of your head
Stop trying to remember everything, and let the app remember for you.
Know what’s going on
See all your projects in one place at a glance.
Stay on top of things
Know what deadlines are coming up, and what to do to hit them.
Don’t get sidetracked
You’re in control - choose what you want to work on. Hide the rest, for now.
Brain in Hand software lets you easily access support from your phone. Used by people with autism or mental health problems, it's packed with features to help you remember activities, reduce anxiety and feel supported. Together this helps you achieve your goals – whether that's travelling independently, staying in school, going to college or university, starting work for the first time or just learning how to deal better with life's up and downs.
A diary and 'recipes' for difficult to remember tasks
To ensure vital elements of your day aren't missed, including planned leisure activity programmes, you can enter appointments and routines for each day into the diary section of the system.
Instant access to pre-planned coping strategies
Everyone faces different challenges in life and find which coping strategies work best for them. But when under pressure this can be forgotten. Brain in Hand keeps your best thinking available on demand in your pocket.
A monitor to track anxiety levels
Brain in Hand includes a traffic light system. You are prompted (at pre-agreed intervals) to indicate how you are feeling by tapping a traffic light icon on your phone – green if everything is fine, amber if you are feeling uneasy, or red if you want support.
'Pressing red' to request support
If pre-planned strategies aren't working and you need more support, help can be requested using Brain in Hand. Pressing red on the traffic light feature sends a text alert to your person of choice, letting them know you need to talk something through right now.
A secure website where they can review their use and identify new issues
Brain in Hand keeps track of all the problems and solutions that you press on the smartphone, and sends them back to your personal website. So, when you're back at your laptop, tablet or PC, you can go to the website and look back at how well you've dealt with that day.
Partner organisations
Brain in Hand work with partner organisations including county councils, autism charities, schools and universities across the UK to supply and support Brain in Hand, including providing mentor support for the 'pressing red' traffic light feature.
Keeping up with the latest research is tough. Millions of new research articles are published each year. Then there’s reports, white papers and company documents.
Your usual research tools can find the most recent or influential ones, but you still have hundreds of papers on your desktop – and no time to read them. Skimming the abstract doesn’t give you enough insight into how important a paper could be to your work.
Suggests background reading.
New to a field? Want to understand the main topics of the latest research? Scholarcy generates a background reading list helping you get up to speed. Scholarcy also highlights terms and abbreviations in the text so you can refer back to them while you are reading.
Highlights important points.
Scholarcy’s unique Robo-Highlighter™ automatically highlights important phrases and contributions made by the paper. No more printing off papers and manually going over them with a marker pen – Scholarcy’s advanced AI has learnt how academic papers are written and can identify when an important point is being made.
Creates a referenced summary.
Scholarcy summarises the whole paper with references, rewriting statements in the third person, making it easier to cite the information correctly in your report, essay or thesis. The summarisation process is fully customisable: choose the number of words, the level of highlighting and level of language variation.
Finds the references.
No more trawling the web trying to find the papers in the references – Scholarcy does that for you, locating open-access PDFs from Google Scholar, arXiv and elsewhere. Scholarcy enlists the excellent UnPaywall API to help with this. You can also download the entire bibliography in BibTex or .RIS format, so you can import each entry into your favourite reference management tool.
Extracts tables and figures.
Need to check the numbers? Scholarcy finds the tables in a PDF or Word document and lets you download them in Excel format, so you can run your own calculations on the results. Scholarcy can be configured to give you thumbnails of each figure in the PDF, cross-referenced in the text, so you can easily jump to the corresponding figure while you are reading.
