Read&Write
What is Read&Write?
Read&Write (also known as R&W), is an application available (for free) to all staff and students at Red River College Polytechnic. Features in the application support learners with reading, writing, studying, and more!
Note: This video refers to R&W as a Chrome extension – please note that R&W is more than just a Chrome extension, & while “R&W for Google Chrome” is often referred to as “the” web extension for R&W, it is available for, and functions exactly the same on Edge..
Main Features
This page will be expanded as we introduce all of the features of R&W and develop resources for them. For now, here are the main features being introduced:
Reading
One of the main features of R&W is its ability to read digital text, both off of a file on your computer, or off of the internet, aloud. Simply click on the text you want read and hit play! You can even adjust how content is read to best suit your needs. R&W supports comprehension of the content you are reading in quite a few different ways:
Highlighters
While R&W is reading, use the built-in highlighters to emphasize important information, information that you want to review, or definitions of important terminology (just to name a few examples). Once you are done highlighting, you can export those highlights into a separate document, creating yourself a study guide personalized for you!
Dictionary
R&W has both a dictionary and a picture dictionary built right in, allowing you to generate both a text and image-based definition of a word you may not know (and you can even have R&W read that definition aloud to you!).
Translate
The translation feature allows you to take text and translate it into another available language, and most translated text may also be read aloud in the new language!
Accessing R&W
We’d suggest that you self-enroll in the Read&Write Tutorial in LEARN. This course will walk you through installing R&W and familiarize you with how to use it to support your studies.
No time to take the LEARN Course?
You can go through the R&W Deployment Guide which will ask you to confirm how you are setting up and accessing R&W:
- You can go through the R&W Deployment Guide which will ask you to confirm how you are setting up and accessing R&W:
- On the first page, select “start setup” under education
- On the next page, select “start setup”
- On the next page, select “installing just for myself”, then select continue at the bottom of the page
- On the next page, select Read&Write, then select continue at the bottom of the page
- On the next page, select “quick install links”, then select continue at the bottom of the page
- On the next page, select “generate my deployment plan” at the bottom of the page
- On the next page select each platform that you wish to install Read&Write on
Note: users on iPads, Chromebooks, or Android tablets should go through this process but select “OrbitNote” instead of Read&Write. For more information on OrbitNote, check out this Tech Tips: Work Smarter, Not Harder blog post on OrbitNote.