Student Support

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

SnapType helps students keep up with their peers in class, even when their penmanship holds them back. Students feel more self-confident, intelligent and independent. SnapType is fun and easy to use for students of all ages.

Providing BC Educators with Alternate Format Materials for their Students with Perceptual Disabilities

IXL is an immersive learning experience that provides comprehensive, curriculum-aligned math and English language arts content for junior kindergarten to grade 12.

Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.

Offering free services that support student-centered learning for K-12 students, adult learners, parents and educators.

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more.