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Support

We offer free virtual tutoring and coaching to every Shorelight student, and our staff are experts in their field. Get help with pre-arrival, English, academic skills/subjects, plus personal and career-related topics and tasks.
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Courses

We have a wide variety of short, interactive eLearning courses on pre-arrival, academic, career, and social skills topics. Scroll down to see some of what awaits you—plus the 90 testimonials selected from over 600!
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Resources

We have 50+ (and counting) live and recorded webinars on essential pre-arrival, academic, social, and career skills topics, along with other many other resources to support your journey, including our add-on Career Premium services. 

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Some of the many courses waiting for you...

Pre-Arrival to Post-Arrival

  • Obtaining Your Visa
  • Mastering the U.S. Visa Interview
  • Preparing for Placement Testing
  • What to Expect at Orientation
  • University Dining
  • Campus & Academic Resources
  • Academic Advising & Registration
  • How to Make American Friends
  • Culture Shock & Mental Health


Career Preparation

  • Major & Career Exploration
  • Understanding CPT and OPT
  • Developing a Resume
  • Writing a Cover Letter
  • Preparing for an Interview
  • Financial Wellness for Students


Academic

  • How to Give an Engaging Presentation
  • Communication in an Academic Context
  • Understanding Academic Integrity & Plagiarism
  • Essay Writing Fundamentals
  • Summary & Response Writing
  • Citation Basics


Students love our self-paced courses!  

"Very nice, good information, great method of explaining!"
Developing a Resume
Survey response from CSU student
"I like that it is tailor made for international students."
Preparing for an Interview
Survey response from CSU student
"It's very useful for any student who is seeking to write the cover letter for their desired role."
Writing a Cover Letter
Survey response from CSU student
"It is awesome. Everything is to perfection."
Academic Advising and Course Registration
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"Precise, awesome, knowledgeable."
Campus and Academic Resources
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM ADU STUDENT
"Easy to read. I like how you included many citation styles to choose from."
Citation Basics
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM ACLA STUDENT
"The workshop provided important key points that would help to understand and improve communication in all settings."
Communication in an Academic Context
Survey response from ADU STUDENT
"The workshop was quite informative and provided valuable insights regarding culture shock. I could relate to almost everything mentioned in the workshop as a international student."
Culture Shock and Mental Health
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM ADU STUDENT
"This workshop gives a lot of content on how to build a resume and I've learnt techniques, which are helpful to build a strong resume, everything is good in this workshop, which helps to create a best resume."
Developing a Resume
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM CSU STUDENT
"Easy to understand. I really loved the hooks part."
Essay Writing Fundamentals
Survey response from ACLA STUDENT
"The workshop provided some useful insights as to how a student can manage their money."
Financial Wellness for Students
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM CSU STUDENT
"Fabulous ideas in recognizing how to present ourselves."
How to Give an Engaging Presentation
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM ADU STUDENT
"Important, helpful, and genuine."
How to Make American Friends
Survey response from UNR STUDENT
"Extremely great to obtain F1 visa."
Obtaining Your Visa
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM UTSA STUDENT
"User friendly, easily accessible, easy to learn."
Preparing for an Interview
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM CSU STUDENT
"Informative, well researched."
Summary & Response Writing
Survey response from CSU Faculty
"It's good for future."
Time Management
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM CSU STUDENT
"Fun!! Engaging!! Exciting!!."
Understanding Academic Integrity and Plagiarism
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM UNR STUDENT
"This workshop is really useful for international students. It consists of all the required topics of CPT and OPT. I think this workshop is tremendously designed. "
Understanding CPT and OPT
Survey response from UD STUDENT
"This workshop is very informative, helpful and worth watching. The best part of the workshop is it gave us a total guidance about whole university. I have gathered many useful information like emergency care, mental care, library, career center, etc. These are very much needed for all university students."
Campus and Academic Resources
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM ADU STUDENT
"I really fascinated by this course, and it includes from the basics to advanced level. If you include videos, I think it will be more helpful."
Writing a Cover Letter
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM UD STUDENT
"Good experience and knowledge. It's a very easy workshop and you can understand everything very easily."
Citation Basics
Survey response from ADU STUDENT
"It is really helpful to the person who's dealing with culture shock. I really liked about the suggestions mentioned to deal with depression."
Culture Shock and Mental Health
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM ADU STUDENT
"This workshop is having very neat and impressive user interface. It will help everyone to make better resume."
Developing a Resume
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM CSU STUDENT
"Helpful, excellent efforts made by who created this workshop. It installed unknown confidence in me to create my resume all by me."
Developing a Resume
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"This workshop provided me some help with my financial problem."
Financial Wellness for Students
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM CSU STUDENT
"Interactive, engaging, and interesting. It was interesting to see all the video examples."
How to Give an Engaging Presentation
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM ACLA STUDENT
"I liked the way they approached the topic, because as an international student it is more difficult to make friends because English is a second language, so this content has helped me to feel less alone and the tips to not only hang out with international students and join as much as I can before classes start seem to me excellent recommendations to keep in mind once I enter classes." [Translated from Spanish]
How to Make American Friends
Survey response from FIU STUDENT
"Very informative, useful and important for all students. I've liked the workshop because there are many engaging stuff like match the following, selecting the cards and other fun activities which will make the students more interested while completing the workshop."
Writing a Cover Letter
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM CSU STUDENT
"Informatic, resourceful and necessary. It was pretty good workshop. It gives lots of information and examples to deal as an international student and also provided information about the services can be used by university of helpline contacts."
Culture Shock and Mental Health
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM ADU STUDENT
"This workshop is very useful to develop a resume in all the ways like format, font, color and many more. I liked the workshop very much because it gives a brief description on the resume to make you better when applying for a jobs in a multinational companies."
Developing a Resume
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"The way of preparing for interviewing by watching videos it makes me more clear and easy understandable. Good to remember posture while interviewing, don't be nervous and honestly answer for the questions. Be confident."
Preparing for an Interview
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM CSU STUDENT
"This workshop really helped me in how to build a perfect cover letter for job applications. Everything is good in the workshop, and we have step by step process how to build a perfect cover letter."
Writing a Cover Letter
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM CSU STUDENT
"Easy to understand and quizzes are also helpful."
Understanding CPT and OPT
Survey response from UD STUDENT
"Review question were great. Video guides were very helpful. Links to additional support were effective."
Understanding Academic Integrity and Plagiarism
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM ADU STUDENT
"It is very good and I have learned a lot from this workshop as per my previous knowledge I have improved much better."
Writing a Cover Letter
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM CSU STUDENT
"I found the workshop was very helpful for me to understand the difference of culture and how to cope up with that as I am an international student."
Culture Shock and Mental Health
Survey response from ADU STUDENT
"Creative, helpful, friendly. A fantastic learning experience and absolutely stellar workshop."
Preparing for an Interview
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM UD STUDENT
"Helpful, creative and useful."
How to Make American Friends
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM UNR STUDENT
"It's very helpful for international students. The workshop was perfect, as it covered all the prospects for interviews in U.S."
Preparing for an Interview
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"Detailed, well-organized and clear. I think it's already good, just keep doing this amazing job."
Academic Advising and Course Registration
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM GU STUDENT
"Very likely to recommend. Better describing about the student services and how to access and better use the resources."
Campus and Academic Resources
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM ADU STUDENT
"Useful, essential, informative."
Citation Basics
Survey response from UNR STUDENT
"I loved the way it explains things highlighting important points."
Communication in an Academic Context
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM ACLA STUDENT
"It's best and recommend for everyone to complete."
Culture Shock and Mental Health
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM CSU STUDENT
"It was very easy to understand, simple and neat. I liked the interactive type questions and answers about resume and dragging the cards to the outlined box."
Developing a Resume
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"Excellent workshop for building a resume in professional way. The UI is very professional which makes workshop interesting."
Developing a Resume
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"What I liked best about the workshop was how clear and practical the tips were, making the concepts easy to understand and apply. The interactive format, with clickable cards, made the learning experience more engaging."
Developing a Resume
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM CSU STUDENT
"It is really good. The explanation is very effective and helpful."
Financial Wellness for Students
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"The information about healthcare was very interactive."
Health Insurance in the United States
Survey response from UNR STUDENT
"I like how there were videos and modules for each section."
Preparing for an Interview
SURVEY RESPONSE FROM UD STUDENT
"This workshop helps in understanding the CPT and OPT. The memory tests after every module is very good and I liked it."
Understanding CPT and OPT
Survey response from UD STUDENT
"I liked the workshop's practical approach, which made it easy to apply the tips immediately."
Writing a Cover Letter
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"I personally think the fact that everything was explained with real life examples is what makes it all the more interesting for the learners."
Writing a Cover Letter
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"This workshop was quite informative and covered the necessary details."
Developing a Resume
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"I like the way it is efficient and fast paced."
Writing a Cover Letter
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"The training program is good. It can help us to make sure we understand the concept."
Understanding CPT and OPT
Survey response from UD STUDENT
"It is very good for the beginners who participate for interviews in USA."
Preparing for an Interview
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"Super, awesome, wonderful! When I'm trying to find the answers it's been like a little challenging and I enjoyed while finding the answers."
Understanding CPT and OPT
Survey response from UD STUDENT
"It is very easy to understand and it helped me to prepare a proper cover letter for my future growth."
Writing a Cover Letter
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"This workshop really helped me in how to build a perfect cover letter for job applications. Everything is good in the workshop, and we have step by step process how to build a perfect cover letter."
Writing a Cover Letter
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"Very helpful, self explanatory, very well documented."
Academic Advising and Course Registration
Survey response from UIC STUDENT
"The workshop was comprehensive and well structured with clear explanations making it easy to navigate through the modules. Overall it was a valuable learning experience."
Campus and Academic Resources
Survey response from ADU STUDENT
"Effective, short and thoughtful examples."
Communication in an Academic Context
Survey response from ADU STUDENT
"Special menu on celebration is good. I like food and the festival special food offered."
University Dining
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"I like the way it explain each and every detail clearly to the students."
Writing a Cover Letter
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"Informative, easy to understand, quick. It was nice to have small quizzes in the middle to test the knowledge."
Developing a Resume
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"Informative, industry-ready, empowering. It helped me to correct my resume in the correct format that would be accepted by professionals."
Developing a Resume
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"It was very informative and provided me knowledge and tips on how to write a good cover letter."
Writing a Cover Letter
Survey response from ADU STUDENT
"I like how engaging it was."
Developing a Resume
Survey response from GU STUDENT
"Best workshop to crack ATS. Overall design of workshop is best."
Developing a Resume
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"The interactive and personalized approach of the workshop stood out, offering practical insights and guidance."
Developing a Resume
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"Best workshop and it will help many students a lot."
Preparing for an Interview
Survey response from UD STUDENT
"This workshop is very informative to international students."
Preparing for an Interview
Survey response from UD STUDENT
"This workshop explained about how to write a resume which is very crucial for students in the future to secure a job. This workshop will help many students when they graduate and apply for the jobs. It includes all the important points to build a resume which is really beneficial to us."
Developing a Resume
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"Workshop covers all basic and advance requirements to build a resume."
Developing a Resume
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"Much needed for international students."
Developing a Resume
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"This helped me a lot to develop my resume. It's easy to understand."
Developing a Resume
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"Best and excellent support for students!"
Writing a Cover Letter
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"This workshop will be useful to student for the future."
Culture Shock and Mental Health
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"It is very helpful for international students."
Understanding CPT and OPT
Survey response from GU STUDENT
"Good, useful, much needed."
Writing a Cover Letter
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"Interesting, funny, useful."
Campus and Academic Resources
Survey response from UNR STUDENT
"Informative, interesting, surprising."
Financial Wellness for Students
Survey response from ADU STUDENT
"It's very useful for students to build a proper professional profile for themselves. Clearly explained content and user friendly interface. It's overall perfect."
Developing a Resume
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"Nice content very useful for interview preparation."
Preparing for an Interview
Survey response from UD STUDENT
"The workshop provided clear and structured guidance on crafting effective cover letters."
Writing a Cover Letter
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"Without a doubt it is great."
Preparing for an Interview
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
"Informative, interactive and helpful."
Understanding CPT and OPT
Survey response from UD STUDENT
"Empowering."
Writing a Cover Letter
Survey response from CSU STUDENT
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