Tech Tools to Help Students Home
The tools listed on this page can be used to help students. Use the key below to pick tools that will be helpful to you.
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ClaroRead |
Speak any text on a website by selecting it, point with the mouse to hear text and links and captions, or click Play to hear sentences read out with highlighting to let you keep track of where you are. Hear letters, words or sentences spoken back as you type. Simply type into web pages and hear what you type as you type it. For letters, hear the letter names or sounds spoken back to you, whichever helps you understand better. Also allows dictation onto a document. |
On web pages in the Chrome browser.
Google Docs Accessible PDFs opened in Google Chrome |
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Color Enhancer |
A customizable color filter applied to webpages to improve color perception, for people who are partially color-blind. |
Most Chrome webpages |
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Dictation in Microsoft |
You can type using the Dictate button in Microsoft office products.
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Word Outlook PowerPoint
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Dyslexia Friendly
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Increases readability of websites by changing to easier-to-read fonts and adding visual enhancements Features: - Change the font on websites to either OpenDyslexic or Comic Sans. - Contrast between paragraphs of text is enhanced with different background color for even and odd paragraphs. - A reading-ruler follows the mouse cursor. |
Most Chrome webpages |
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Google Translate |
View translations easily as you browse the web. By the Google Translate team. Learn more about Google Translate at https://support.google.com/translate |
Most Chrome webpages |
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Immersive Reader
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Can help improve reading comprehension by:
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Microsoft Word Microsoft OneNote Microsoft Forms Edge browser Flipgrid
Install extension to use within the Chrome browser |
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Postlight Reader
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The Postlight Reader extension for Chrome removes ads and distractions, leaving only text and images for a clean and consistent reading view on every site.- Disable surrounding webpage noise and clutter with one click - Adjust typeface and text size, and toggle between light or dark themes - Quick keyboard shortcut (Cmd + Esc for Mac users, Alt + ` for Windows users) to switch to Reader on any article page - Printing optimization |
Most Chrome webpages |
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Read Aloud
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Read Aloud allows you to select from a variety of text-to-speech voices, including those provided natively by the browser, as well as by text-to-speech cloud service providers such as Google Wavenet, Amazon Polly, IBM Watson, and Microsoft. Some of the cloud-based voices may require additional in-app purchase to enable. |
Most Chrome webpages |
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| Read&Write |
Boost reading and writing confidence across all types of content and devices, in class, at work, and at home. Wonderfully intuitive and easy-to-use, Read&Write for Google Chrome™ provides personalized support to make documents, web pages and common file types in Google Drive (including: Google Docs, PDF & ePub) more accessible. It’s designed to help everyone engage with digital content in a way that suits his/her abilities and learning styles. Read&Write offers a range of powerful support tools to help you gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research, including: • Text-to-speech to hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting • Text and picture dictionaries to see the meaning of words explained • With speech-to-text, dictate words to assist with writing, proofreading & studying • Word prediction offers suggestions for the current or next word as you type • Collect highlights from text in documents or the web for summarizing and research • Create and listen to voice notes directly inside of Google Docs • Simplify and summarize text on web pages to remove ads and other copy that can be distracting |
Most Chrome webpages |
The Read&Write extension is pushed out automatically to all student devices.
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Voice Type in Google Docs
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Steps to use voice typing in a document
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Google docs Google Slides |
