Please find below a list of websites and apps that may be useful.
Educational Websites
The State Examinations Commission is responsible for the development, assessment, accreditation and certification of the second-level examinations of the Irish state: the Junior Cycle and the Leaving Certificate.
Studyclix is Ireland’s largest study and teaching website. Over 200,000 students and more than 90% of teachers use Studyclix in Ireland.
Scoilnet is the Department of Education and Skills (DES) official portal for Irish education. Originally launched in 1998, the website is managed by PDST Technology in Education on behalf of the DES. Scoilnet collaborates with practising teachers to maintain and manage the content on the website.
Skoool.ie is a free access interactive online learning and service platform dedicated to Ireland’s Secondary and High School level students. The site provides a broad range of rich media curriculum learning material covering all major subjects.
Post-Primary Languages Ireland (PPLI) is a dedicated unit providing expertise and support for foreign languages education in Ireland, predominantly at post-primary level.
Schooldays.ie provides information and support to parents, caregivers & teaching staff throughout the school years, from pre-school through to the primary and secondary years. Whether you are looking for information on schools, afterschool activities, milestone events like communions, birthdays, debs or general parenting advice you’ll find it all on Schooldays.ie!
Educational Apps
Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more-using your own word lists.
Padlet is an educational technology startup company based in San Francisco, California and Singapore. Padlet provides a cloud-based software-as-a-service, hosting a real-time collaborative web platform in which users can upload, organize, and share content to virtual bulletin boards called “padlets”.
Everyone learns in different ways. For the first time in history, we can analyze how millions of people learn at once to create the most effective educational system possible and tailor it to each student.
Our ultimate goal is to give everyone access to a private tutor experience through technology.
Learn geography the easy way! Learning geography doesn’t have to be boring. Do it the easy way with Seterra! In no time, you could learn to locate every single country in the world on a map. Seterra includes fun quizzes that help familiarize you with countries, capital cities, flags, rivers, lakes, and notable geological features.
For Maths and English practice. At IXL Learning, we are passionate about improving learning for all. We apply technology in thoughtful and innovative ways to unlock learners’ innate curiosity, creativity, and desire for knowledge.
Kahoot! is a global learning platform company that wants to empower everyone, including children, students, and employees, to unlock their full learning potential. Our learning platform makes it easy for any individual or corporation to create, share, and host learning sessions that drive compelling engagement.
LEO GmbH is a leading provider of online dictionaries for the language pairs. Members can connect with each other via the LEO forums, improve their vocabulary with the help of the vocab trainer or sign up for a language course and learn a new language or refresh their language skills.
The myStudyPal mobile app allows you to access your personal study timetable for A-levels, Leaving Cert, GCSE & Junior Cert on the go FOR FREE!
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.
Revise for exams, summarise your notes and test yourself with the education app that’s most beloved by students and educators from around the world! With Quizlet’s app, you can easily create a set of flashcards for an exam or browse through +30 million free and public sets created by UK students and teachers.
Explore the whole world from above with satellite imagery, 3D terrain of the entire globe, and 3D buildings in hundreds of cities around the world. See the world from a new point of view with Voyager, a collection of guided tours from BBC Earth, NASA, National Geographic, and more. And now, visualise the immersive maps and stories you’ve created with Google Earth on web on your mobile device.
Feed your curiosity and expand your world with TED Talks. Explore more than 3,000 TED Talks from remarkable people, by topic and mood, from tech and science to the surprises of your own psychology.