We pay our respect to the First Nations and Métis ancestors of this place and reaffirm our relationship with one another. We acknowledge that the University of Saskatchewan’s main campus is situated on Treaty 6, traditional Nehiyaw territory, and the Homeland of the Métis. The USask Study rooms & seats are open for bookings in advance here: įor more support options with Canvas, see the USask Student Canvas page. This video highlights Microsoft’s current Immersive Reader functions in Canvas.
Providing your instructor has embedded their materials in Canvas, these functions can help you to access the details and concepts you need and allow you to choose how to access the materials.
When you click on the Immersive Reader button, you’ll see your options on the right side of the screen. The Immersive Reader button, at the top right-hand of Pages, Assignments, the Course Home Page and Syllabus page, provides a ton of functions to assist readers.
There are also some limitations of using the Immersive Reader in Canvas Pages, as embedded links, videos, tables and mathematical formulae won’t be appear in the Immersive Reader tool and it won’t work in Canvas mobile apps, only in browser. The tool enables students to improve their literacy skills and provides a range of accessibility features such as text-to-speech, increasing text size, changing font and colour themes, spotlighting line focus and highlighting grammar.įrom Monday 14th June 2021 the Immersive Reader will be visible to students on Canvas Pages only and is not currently available on any other Canvas content types. Microsoft’s Immersive Reader, a reading and comprehension tool built-in to many Office 365 applications including MS Word and OneNote, will now be available for students in Canvas Pages (see images above). To see how Alternative Formats work for students in Canvas and for a more detailed description of each of the alternative format types, watch this short Ally video:
The following alternative formats can be generated: an OCR’d version (for scanned documents), Tagged PDF (currently for Word, Powerpoint and OpenOffice/LibreOffice files), Mobile-friendly HTML version, Audio (.mp3 file), ePub, Electronic Braille, BeeLine Reader, and a Translated Version.
Blackboard Ally (an integration with Canvas that provides accessibility reporting tools for staff within the VLE), will also provide an additional function for students, allowing the download of “alternative formats” of content within Canvas.Īlly will create a link beside the original content and provide different options for students to download in a format of their choice, suitable for multiple devices (see image above).Īlly provides alternative formats for: PDFs, MS Word documents, MS PowerPoint files, OpenOffice/LibreOffice files, Uploaded HTML files, as well as content created directly in the Canvas Rich Content Editor (e.g.