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KUMO
KUMO
What can KUMO do for learners?
Kumo is an all-in-one study-aid Google Chrome plug in tool that has been developed for people who want to leverage evidence-based techniques and tools to assist with the ongoing demands of life, work and study.
Kumo puts everything in one easy place to make your next study sesh. a well-organised, distraction free zone.
Key features of KUMO:
A seamless bookmarking and research organisational tool
A task list with the ability to add daily routines and check off your progress each day
A site blocker to block those pesky procrastination stations and keep you on task.
A task timer with research-backed pomodoro sprint blocks or custom focus and break timers
FREE to use!
For more information, go to KUMOs website.
Glean
Glean
What can Glean do for learners?
It can analyse spoken language and convert it into a textual format that can be used in various applications.
It also assists learners to:
• Record classes
• Attach quick labels and notes
• Import lecture slides
• Convert audio to text
• Sort and search your classes
• Add definitions and images
• Clean up your recording
• Check in on outstanding tasks
For more information, go to Gleans website.
Texthelp PDF Reader
Texthelp PDF Reader
Read Aloud
Read Aloud
Experience PDFs in a whole new way with Texthelp’s new PDF Reader. What can this add on do?
• Collaborate in real-time on PDFs shared in Google Drive
• Read text, including math & science equations, aloud
• Input math & science directly into your PDF with integration of the EquatIO for Chrome extension*
• Translate words
• Add text annotations using Word Prediction and Dictation*
• Build vocabulary lists*
• Add audio comments using only your voice*
• And more!
For more information, go to TextHelp Video Tours, or you can check out the quick guide here.
What can this chrome extension do when added to your browser?
Read Aloud is a Chrome and Firefox extension that uses text-to-speech technology to convert webpage text to audio. It works on a variety of websites, including news sites, blogs, fan fiction, publications, textbooks, school and class websites, online universities and course materials.
Read Aloud is aimed at users who prefer to listen to content instead of reading, people with dyslexia or other learning disabilities, children learning to read, or simply to provide users with alternative way to consume web content.
Google Slides Closed Captions
Google Slides Closed Captions
Present slides with captions
Present slides with captions
When you present slides, you can turn on automatic captions to display the speaker's words in real time.
This feature is available on Chrome devices in U.S. English.
Step 1: Set up your microphone
Step 1: Set up your microphone
Step 2: Present with captions
Step 2: Present with captions
Connect to the Internet.
Open your presentation in Google Slides.
To start presenting, click Present
To turn on captions, click CC
As you speak, captions appear at the bottom of the screen. Captions don't include punctuation.
To change text position or size, next to “CC” click the drop-down menu .
To turn off captions, click CC
*Some people find captions distracting, so you might want to ask your audience before turning on captions.
*Captions are not stored
Video
Video
Tips for using captions
Tips for using captions
If you present slides over video conferencing software (such as Google Meet), captions show up on the shared screen. To set expectations for your audience, it's a good idea to tell them that captions are from Google Slides, not the video conferencing software, and that only the speaker's voice is captioned.
Captions and your microphone automatically turn off if there's no activity on your computer for 30 minutes.
Real-time Continuous Transcription with 'Live Transcribe'
Real-time Continuous Transcription with 'Live Transcribe'
Magnifyer
Magnifying Glass lets you easily magnify a small portion of page with click of a button (supports keyboard shortcuts).
Easily magnify page in a circular section while moving your mouse.
Toolbar button serves as ON|OFF switch to show or hide the magnifier glass.
Very lite addon with no significant CPU or RAM usage.
Has the option to change magnifier zoom level and coverage area.
Available for all browsers and platforms (Window and Mac).
ChromeLens Checker
ChromeLens Checker
Lens (Vision Simulator)
Interact with a website as a completely/partially blind or a colourblind person.
Accessibility Audit
Run a website through a series of accessibility rules and easily discover elements in your website that do not comply with them.
Tab-tracker
Key website features should be navigable solely via the keyboard (tab button), while not making the user jump through hoops to get to a feature. With the tab-tracker, you can visually track the flow of navigation through a website.
OTTER.ai Speech to Text
Otter turns your voice conversations into smart notes that you can easily search and share.
You can:
Take notes at your meetings and interviews
Capture your thoughts and ideas while you’re driving in the car
Transcribe your existing recordings and podcasts
Share conversations
Review and Edit
Import and export conversations
Organize conversations into folders
Connect your favourite apps so you can add calendar notes for example
You can even snap photos (e.g. of a whiteboard, a speaker, or presentation slide at an event) during a recording and they will be inserted in line with your transcripts.
Immersive reader
Open book
A free tool to help students with Dyslexia:
Improve their comprehension
Encourage independent reading
Increase fluency
Build confidence
Sustains attention and reading speed
Improves word recognition
Supports teaching and improves writing quality
OpenBook converts printed documents or graphic-based text into an electronic text format on your PC. OpenBook is designed to enhance success for people who are blind or have low vision who need access to printed and electronic materials.
Equatio makes makes maths and science more accessible and engaging for every student by creating digital equations.
A talk through of how to use equatio can be found here.
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