Students & Homework

With courses in 110+ languages, Transparent Language Online provides an effective and engaging experience for language learners looking to build their vocabulary, practice their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, and maintain what they learn.

Includes KidSpeak, a fun, age-appropriate online language course designed for children ages 6 and up with more than 40 activities, puzzles, and songs to guide young learners through the basics.

Improve your digital skills with computers, software, and technology. Online, self-guided modules assess the ability of individuals to perform tasks based on skills in three main areas:

Offers full-text articles from thousands of academic journals and professional magazines on a wide variety of educational topics to support educator professional development. It includes lesson plans, support materials and a Curriculum Standards Module to help educators correlate content to Common Core, state-specific curriculum standards.

Guide to identifying common trees in Ohio.

Identification guide to snakes found in Ohio.

Guide to identifying flint artifacts (arrowheads, spearheads, etc.)

Includes a timeline and brief introduction to Ohio's prehistoric people.

Full-text articles from hundreds of trade and industry-related publications, plus indexing and abstracts for hundreds of journals. Publications include Modern Machine Shop, Pediatric Nursing, Wireless Week, Drug Store News, Reeves Journal, Restaurant Business, Advertising Age, and many more.

Concise introductions by Oxford University Press to a wide variety of topics, written by experts in the field. Subject areas covered include arts, science, humanities, history, politics, law, medicine and health, mathematics, social sciences, and more. 

Presents scholarly and peer-reviewed information for sociology and social work researchers, professionals and students. Topics include social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture, social structure, and more. Updated daily.

Provides full-text articles from popular magazines for middle school students. Also offers access to biographies, historical essays, primary source documents, fact sheets for countries and states, Magill Book Reviews, and an image collection of photographs, maps, and flags. Includes Lexile reading levels. Updated daily.