What is Read&Write and how to I access it?

Read&Write is a literacy support tool designed to help with reading, writing, and comprehension. This literacy tool is now freely available to anyone with a Purdue Global email address!

Read&Write has over 20 different tools including:

• Text read aloud within documents or on the web (text-to-speech)
• Dictation when writing papers or brainstorming
• Highlighters & the ability to collect highlighted content into a new document
• Annotation tools - ability to markup a document
• Dictionaries
• Translation
• Grammar/spell checking

Read&Write works in various PG Global environments like:

• Google Docs
• Within Brightspace (the platform where courses are accessed) 
• On websites 
• Within documents such as PDFs

See the attached links for information about how to download Read&Write *extensions and to locate informative video tutorials. 

*It is recommended to download the Orbit extension as well, OrbitNote:

Open digital documents in Google Drive, OneDrive, on the web app, in your LMS (Google Classroom), or on your local device, then use OrbitNote to:

• Collaborate in real-time within digital documents
• Read text, including math & science equations, aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting
• Type text on top of your PDFs with the Text feature
• Highlight and extract information with colored highlighters
• Add text and voice comments or use pushpins for helpful hints or instructions
• Use freehand or shape drawing to scribble and draw on your digital documents