A great tool that could be better

Submitted 9 years ago

Community Review for NoodleTools

John A.
John A.
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My Take

A great overall tool that helps students arrange and store information for a research project. Collaboration happens at two levels: full and peer review.

At the behest of librarians, NoodleTools has added a "Quickcite" feature which allows users to copy and paste a citation from a database article. While this definitely could be a plus, the Quickcite feature is buried behind 3 clicks, making navigation difficult and adding on another layer of instruction. This frustrates both teachers and students, and makes me reluctant to offer the app to 6th grade students. I've tried several times to get the developers to make the Quckcite feature more accessible, but so far they have refused.

Another great feature that is absent is a citation tool that would collect the metadata from a web page. EasyBib does it, why can't NoodeTools?

How I Use It

I use NoodleTools primarily with my English and AVID teachers. So far, I've only introduced to 8th grade students and 7th grade STEM and AVID students.

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Edward F.
Edward F. Teacher Paul Laurence Dunbar High School Baltimore, MD
August 13, 2023

Great for Student Research

I believe that Noodle Tools is a great tool for introducing students to academic research. The note card function is handy, helps students organize their thinking, and allows students to connect their findings to a specific source. Noodle Tools also allow students to share their work with each other making group work easy and engaging. Parts that could be improved: ensuring proper format all citations (without an autocorrect feature, APA Capitalization tends to be off) . Also Noodle Tools would benefit from an auto save feature to ensure student work is always saved.
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Jason O.
Jason O. Service High School Anchorage, AK
May 5, 2019

Great tool for all aspects of a research project

I believe this is a wonderful tool for use in all aspects of the research process. I like that the notecard feature allows you to keep your research organized and that each notecard can be attached to the source. Students are also able to share their projects with others, allowing for easy use with group projects. I would recommend teachers create their own accounts, allowing them to use the software. I use it for my research papers in my master's program. This practice makes it easier for me to help when students need assistance. Areas for improvement would be an auto-correct feature when creating citations and an automatic save, so work doesn't get lost if you don't hit save.
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Derick Y.
Derick Y. Chantilly High School Chantilly, VA
October 30, 2017

Noodletools is the dumbest and time consuming product in the world.

If you want to spend 3 hours + citing sources then sure, use this.
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