Hi Phil
There is the ability within the Teacher Toolkit to set up a 'Feature Set' and assign it to a particular user. You can customise ‘Feature Sets’ which enables you to switch on or off any of the features of the program. This way you could set up the software to only allow the text to speech feature for this student. Then when she logs on to the software she will only be allowed the read back feature which she has requested. She will not be able to access any of the other features which might be considered as giving her an advantage over other students.
To install the Teacher Toolkit you need to do a custom install. Further details are on this webpage:
http://www.texthelp.com/rwg-ttkit.asp?q1=products&q2=rwg&q3=TeachersToolkit
The Teacher Toolkit is available with Read&Write Standard and Read&Write Gold.
Best wishes
Jackie Prentice
Training Officer
Texthelp Systems Ltd
www.texthelp.com
Phone : 028 94 428105
Fax : 028 94 428574
I have just had a phone call from an examinations officer from local college. They have a student, in receipt of the DSA, who is requesting the software textHELP Read and Write to be installed on to a computer for use in their examinations. The student’s disability – combination of mobility and dyslexia – insists that she needs the ‘read-back’ feature within TH to listen to what she has written – basically a sentence at a time.
In the student’s psychological report, for her examinations, she has been recommended 25% extra time (plus allowances for rest periods), a computer and a reader.
I was wondering whether any of you have had experiences of students either requesting or using textHELP Read and Write within an examination setting (in addition to Word) ?? In any case, I would have thought that the reader would be able to provide audible feedback of sentences and paragraphs in much the same way as the TH software.
However, the student is insisting that this is not ‘quite the same ??’. At present, the exams officer is not convinced and feels that the inclusion of textHELP would put the student at an advantage over other students.
Any comments ?
Thanks
Phil Judd
Bridgend College
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