Read&Write is a gamechanger for students
Updated April 18, 2024
Read&Write is a gamechanger for students
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Read&Write
Read&Write is our primary literacy software. Our business is higher education and this software addresses our needs in terms of providing TTS and study tools for our students. We also recommend it as a speech recognition option for those not using Windows 11 and MacOS. Our user base is mostly students with disabilities but have seen uptake by our some of our international student population and non-disabled students.
- Text-to-speech
- study tools (highlights and collecting highlights
- scanning and OCR (scan feature and screenshot reader
- Voices for Windows (more natural)
- Speech Recognition is hit and miss
- Spell Check is in need of a bit of an update to bring it up to par with Grammarly
- My role is to improve the success rate of students with disabilities and often after I introduce them to the software, i get the "where was this when i was in high school?" comment. Just with that comment i know that it's made a difference in that student's academic life.
- I believe that the software is directly related to student retention
It's highly important for us to provide our students with the tools to be successful in their academic pursuits. Our college strives to set an example to our community and partners in the area of accommodations and accessibility services. Part of that is being able to provide our students regardless of need the tools be successful. We are a primarily a Microsoft shop, therefore the ease of activation with our institutional Microsoft account is very convenient.
I've always found Read&Write superior to Kurzweil and we do have a small volume/web license of K3000 for those students that have used it in the past and I am not able to convert them to Read&Write. Dragon is one of the Speech Recognition options. I lean towards using the Windows 11 Voice access feature as i find it superior to Read&Write in terms of accuracy. Dragon is reserved to those that need to build a custom vocabulary. I do show the Talk&Type feature in students are on Windows 10 or earlier.
Do you think Read&Write delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Read&Write's feature set?
Yes
Did Read&Write live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Read&Write go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Read&Write again?
Yes
Read&Write Feature Ratings
Using Read&Write
2000 - They are college students with various disabilities. We also see a lot of usage from our international students and those who are ESL learners.
3 - Currently I am the Assistive Technologist and provide the initial training to our students on the use of Read&Write and we have 2 Learning Strategists that meet with students and support them on helpful strategies that help them make efficient use of the software. Beyond that we have made several academic advisors and tutors aware of Read&Write to allow them to redirect the students to use for training.
- Reading Comprehension
- Studying (Highlighting)
- Writing