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Abstract : Today, educational tools have become necessary for learners to learn well and improve their knowledge. These tools complement knowledge as they can make it more vivid and add some simulation or game into the learning process. It is self-learning since the students can learn from any place and it also enables the students to go further on content that may interest them, and which may help them in the understanding of the concept. This paper takes the idea of developing SynchroLearn, which is an educational visualization tool developed with the help of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that enables the teaching of deadlock handling techniques effectively for both the developers and the students. To expound on techniques such as the Producer-Consumer problem, Peterson’s method, Test-and-Set Lock, and the Dining Philosophers problem, an online tool known as SynchroLearn helps in providing the learner an actual time visualization. These strategies present several ways of handling resources, and with that, the management of their utilization process, so that the processes could be controlled in terms of what resources they require, which in turn, helps to solve and prevent such cases of deadlocks. This approach helps to learn complex relationships as well as to understand the interactions between the different processes, identify the deadlock situations, and use the essential methods for their resolution. They bring out the idea linking theoretical proficiencies and practical application by demonstrating them as simple-to-follow graphics which are therefore easier to implement.