How do I use Immersive Reader in Canvas?
How do I use Immersive Reader to make text more clear, and translate Canvas pages and Word documents?
Answer
Immersive Reader is a tool designed to make reading more accessible to all learners. Immersive Reader implements proven techniques such as reading text out loud, changing the spacing between words, and changing the background colour of pages to make sure that digital text content is accessible to all.
You can even translate pages into other languages, making Immersive Reader a useful tool for those who have difficulty concentrating, have dyslexia, or speak English as a second language.
Immersive Reader is available on all Canvas pages, including this one, so feel free to test it out by following the instructions in the video below.
Introduction to Immersive Reader
Accessing Immersive Reader
To access Immersive Reader on Canvas:
- Access Canvas via a browser on your laptop or desktop computer.
- Open up the Canvas course you'd like to read from your Dashboard.
- Find the page you'd like to read, but remember, Immersive Reader won't work on the course Homepage!
- Look for the Immersive Reader button in the toolbar at the top of the page.
Using Immersive Reader to translate Canvas pages and Word documents
You can also use Immersive Reader to translate pages on Canvas and Word documents in your OneDrive.
To translate pages on Canvas:
- Look for the Immersive Reader button in the toolbar at the top of the page
- Select the Reading Preferences button
- Select your preferred language and then choose whether to translate individual words, or the entire document
You might also find that the Picture dictionary is very helpful for you too.
Accessing Immersive Reader via Word on your OneDrive is easy, and you can use the translation tools there too:
- Open the document you'd like to access using the browser version of Word
- Select the View button and then choose Immersive Reader