Read&Write Gold 

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The discrete, customizable toolbar  works with commonly-used file types and applications including: Microsoft ® Word, Google Docs™, PDFs, Mozilla Firefox®, Internet Explorer®, Safari, and Chrome™, to make digital content accessible. The software can take scanned electronic documents and camera images into a format that enables interaction with the content.

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Contact your local IT support team for assistance installing the software on your University-owned computer.Download link below for installing on your personally-owned computer.

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Hands-on Training

Two 3-hour hands-on training sessions are planned for Friday, June 5th.  The training will take place in 116 Physics computer lab from 8:30 to noon and again from 1:00 to 4:30. 

This hands-on, interactive session will help participants learn about this Literacy Support software, designed to help students in the areas of Reading, Research, Writing, Vocabulary, and Studying.  Read&Write also affords educators ways to provide their students with more accessible and appropriate materials to be able to truly differentiate instruction.  A demonstration of how key tools are accessed and used with time to practice will be sprinkled with some basic applications to help all different kinds of learners. 

Register for Hands-on Read&Write Gold Training

Webinar

ITS arranged for a live, one-hour webinar that presents a thorough tour of Read&Write Gold and discussion of how the application can help students and other that you support.Kimberly Nix, M.Ed., TextHelp’s Senior Professional Development Manager in North America, discusses the key tools in Read&Write for empowering university students to maximize their time and effort.She focuses on the areas of accessing digital text, working through reading, creating study guides, gathering information for research, organizing and proofing, paper writing, and more.  A demonstration of how tools function was interspersed with practical application suggestions to help different kinds of learners with strategies for success.

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iPad version installation (You must login to Answers to download iReadWrite to install)

Updates

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC has replaced Adobe Reader XI as Adobe’s free PDF reader. Read&Write 11 is compatible with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, but a few steps need to be made in order for Read&Write to work with Reader DC. 

Steps to allow Read&Write to work with Adobe DC versions