HELP Student Resources

Get a UH account!

How to get a UH username and email (hawaii.edu account)

English for Academic Purposes

Check Your Grades:

If your teacher uses Engrade, he or she will give you an access code.
Go to this website and enter your access code. After creating an account,
you will be able to check your grades online.
If your teacher uses ThinkWave, he or she will give you the information
needed to view your grades online. Ask him or her for this information.

Typing and Word Processing:

Pronunciation:

About the Center for Academic Spoken English (CASE)

The Center for Academic Spoken English (CASE) provides oral communication support for English as an additional language (EAL) users in the UH Mānoa community. Specifically, the center promotes the development of oral skills of relevance to academic literacy, or, more simply, those skills which best allow members of the academic community to communicate competently with each other. CASE is continually adding options for both one-on-one and small group consultation, as well as workshop-based support.

For more information, please visit their website: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/case/

Vocabulary & Dictionaries:

Quizlet (use this to study vocabulary; make your own study materials)
Reverse Dictionary (when students (or you) can’t think of a word)
Visuwords (good free online visual dictionary)
ThinkMap (good free online visual dictionary)
Longman Dictionary (Great online dictionary for ELL)
Cambridge Online English Learners’ Dictionary (Great online ELL dictionary)
Thesaurus (use this to find words that have a similar meaning to other words; synonym dictionary)
Oxford Collocation Dictionary (Collocation Dictionary for ELLs)
Free Online Collocation Dictionary (Free Online Collocation Dictionary)
Urban Dictionary (dictionary for recently coined words and phrases; slang dictionary)