Dictation comes to Office 365 and Immersive Reader gets support for Adverb highlighting
As teachers know, students enter the classroom with a wide range of learning styles, experiences, and abilities, not to mention personalities! Providing multiple modes of expression helps every student communicate their ideas and connect with others - valuable skills that will serve them well throughout their personal and professional lives. Strong communication skills are vital to scholastic achievement and Dictation, coming to Office 365, provides a powerful way for teachers and students to conquer the blank page and effectively present their ideas and thoughts to the world with their voice. To help improve students’ reading skills, we’ve also incorporated feedback from both teachers and students to improve Immersive Reader, delivering personalized learning experiences for a wide range of learners.Immersive Reader is coming to an app near you - now partners can use as an Azure Cognitive Service
Today, we’re thrilled to announce the Immersive Reader will now be available as an Azure Cognitive Service, allowing third party apps and partners to add Immersive Reader right into their products. The Immersive Reader helps people of all abilities, including dyslexia, ADHD, emerging readers, non-native speakers, people with visual impairments. If there’s an app you love to use in your classroom and you would love to see an Immersive Reader icon show up there soon, let them know. We’ve made it easier than ever, you might even call it Literacy as a Service!10 Learning Tools updates for the new year, including Translate and inclusive math improvements
With the kickoff of 2019 and school back in session again, we want to help you reinvigorate your teaching and reach all your students! Our product updates include ways to help you communicate with every student through translation capabilities, improve reading and writing skills, and even support math development. With all these updates, we’re sure you’ll find at least one feature to help you kick off the new year right – read on for more information!Editor’s Similarity checker in Microsoft Word – helping writers with originality and attribution
Powered by Bing Search, the Similarity checker can identify and help writers with originality in their writing and learn more about appropriate attribution through tools that facilitate the easy insertion of relevant citations. This can aid writers in focusing less on the mechanics of writing, and more on the content.Getting Started documentation and videos for partners using Azure Immersive Reader
Today we launched The Azure Immersive Reader, to enable people of all abilities with reading. The Immersive Reader can be easily and quickly integrated into all app (Win10, iOS, Android), sites, or content providers. For partners or developers interested in getting started, we have a set of helpful resources you can use to get up and running.14 updates for Immersive Reader: General availability on Azure, a Code.org partnership and lots more
Today, we’re thrilled to announce this powerful literacy tool has reached General Availability as an Azure Cognitive Service, allowing third party apps and partners to add Immersive Reader right into their products. During the public preview period, we’ve had scores of partners integrate the Immersive Reader, and some of them are listed below.
New Microsoft Learning Tools teacher training resources for reading, writing, math and communication
As more and more educators learn about the Microsoft Learning Tools across reading, writing, math and communication, the demand for high quality, easy-to-use, and fast professional development and training has grown. To help schools more readily take advantage of the free and inclusive tools that are available to all, we've put together a set of tools for help, support and our 4 new interactive training guides :hundred_points: Built-in, mainstream, non-stigmatizing, and free!Inclusive Classroom October updates for Reading, Writing, Math and Communication
October is National Dyslexia awareness month, and Microsoft Education is excited to announce a set updates across our Learning Tools capabilities. These inclusively designed tools enable student-centered learning , and help students of all abilities across the areas of reading, writing, math and communication. Built-in, mainstream, non-stigmatizing and FREE!
