Kurzweil 3000 - WEB (Features)

Overview

Kurzweil Education is an American-based company that provides educational technology. Kurzweil Education provides literacy solutions, tools and training for those with learning differences and challenges, or people with blindness or partially sighted.

If you have a learning disabilities or other disabilities that make reading or writing difficult, please contact Carol Bell (carol.bell@saultcollege.ca) in Student Services or Michelle Denneny (michelle.denneny@saultcollege.ca) in the CICE office to learn about the benefits of this program and to be grant access.

WEB-BASED READING

1. Click to open files from Google Docs, Bookshare, Reading A-Z
2. Read text in Word, PDF, RTF, JPG
3. Read the Web Chrome extension with customizable options
4. Customize reading options; speed, mode and units
5. Zoom in for low vision
6. 31 Natural Text-to-Speech voices in 18 languages and dialects

WEB-BASED COMPREHENSION

1. Highlight in yellow, blue, green and pink
2. Extract notes and highlighters into a Study Guide
3. Access Definitions instantly with American Heritage Fifth Edition, Children’s, College writers dictionaries
4. Translate full sentences and passages
5. Read embedded Text Notes and Sticky Notes (or hide them)

WEB-BASED WRITING AND ASSIGNMENTS

1. Write or edit documents online with the Web Editor
2. Customize text-to-speech reading options
3. Correct misspellings with Talking spell-checker
4. Word prediction recommends words based on frequency
5. Cross-out text in assignments and tests online

WEB-BASED MANAGEMENT

1. Centralized and flexible user management
2. Usage reporting school or district-wide
3. Online Library—no file storage limit

IPAD APP

1. Access content saved in your online library
2. Change reading speed, mode, units
3. 31 Natural Text-to-Speech voices in 18 languages and dialects
4. Translate full sentences and passages
5. Access to Definitions instantly
6. Highlight in yellow, blue, green and pink
7. Cross-out text for assignments and tests given with the iPad
8. Read (or hide) Text and Sticky notes
9. Magnify text with the swipe of your fingers
10. Resume reading the last page you were on