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.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.Microsoft Learning Tools come to Word and OneNote for Mac, Outlook Desktop, plus improved Edge
Today we are announcing 5 exciting additions and improvements for Microsoft Learning Tools Word for Mac – just like in Word Desktop and Word for iPad, Learning Tools is now available on the latest version Word for the Mac.Learning Tools and Immersive Reader updated for OneNote, Word and Outlook
Today we released a wave of updates for Immersive Reader across multiple platforms, as well as Learning Tools for Word Desktop improvement's. See the full blog here: https://educationblog.microsoft.com/2017/08/learning-tools-word-desktop-immersive-reader-update Immersive Reader improvements - available in Word Online, OneNote Online, Outlook on the Web and OneNote for Windows 10 Refreshed and fluid UI for the immersive reader New "Line Focus" feature (1, 3 or 5 lines), designed for focused reading without distraction (much like a "Reading Ruler"). Helps dyslexia, ADHD, emerging readers, and many others. Watch the video in the blog, it is a really cool feature Ability to change voices (male/female options) as compared to only one voice previously Auto-detect of languages on a page in Outlook on the web (other platforms coming soon) to enabled the proper Read Aloud, syllables and Parts of Speech to be recognized From the Word team: Learning Tools for Word Desktop in Office 365 - Significant improvements New Learning Tools button on the View ribbon tab to surface a contextual "Learning Tools" tab in Word New "Narrow" mode to reduce visual crowding Ability to Edit in Word while having syllables turned on Ability to be typing and immediately highlight words and choosing "Read Aloud" "Read Aloud" button is now additionally surfaced on the Review tabSave teachers and students time and effort with new transcription capabilities in Word
Educators and students are actively spending time and energy adapting to virtual learning while handling life at home. Our bandwidth to figure out new processes, keep track of various conversations, and digitize workflows while still aspiring to do our best work is limited and that’s why we’re excited to share that Transcribe in Word is here.
Inclusive Classroom round up for Microsoft Education at ISTE 2019
Microsoft Education’s mission is to empower every student on the planet to achieve more. This mission is founded on inclusive principles and aims to enable 100% of all students. Built-in, mainstream, non-stigmatizing and free! Coming into ISTE, Microsoft Education is releasing a wave of updates for the Inclusive Classroom. Today’s round-up of new updates are grouped across reading, writing, math and communication.
