Resources for Academic and Personal Success (RAPS)

Advising Center

Advising & Registration Center
Information from the Champlain College Advising and Registration Center (ARC) including how to change majors, how to contact your advisor, exam schedules, registration information, and other forms, policies and procedures.

International Resources

Joe Landsberger's Study Guides and Strategies
An international, learner-centric, educational resource. This comprehensive site is translated into 30 languages and includes helpful guides on reading skills, preparing for tests, classroom participation, and research.

Learning Styles

NC State University Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire
This short quiz determines your learning preferences and offers some techniques that will help you adapt to various classroom settings.

Mental Health and Well-being

University of Chicago Virtual Pamplet
A comprehensive guide to online resources that includes information on time management, study skills, test-taking, cultural misunderstanding, problems with medication, dealing with grief or traumatic events, and other situations that may directly or indirectly effect academic performance.

Virginia Tech Cook Counseling Center
Interactive guides for studying, testing, and writing notes. This site also includes a handbook for students with attention deficit disorder.

Study Skills

How-to-Study
Basic, tried and true advice on taking notes, tests, writing papers and more. This site also includes the importance of staying healthy and getting involved on campus, communicating with professors and advisors, and strategies for coping with stress anxiety and procrastination.