OneNote LearningTools

Making it easier to read and write

The Learning Tools for OneNote helps everyone improve their reading and writing skills, including gifted learners, students with learning differences or a combination of any of the broad range of unique student abilities.

Students can get this add-on for OneNote by going to https://www.onenote.com/learningtools

Let’s take a look at what is possible with this simple but powerful tool.

The add-on includes a new tab:

Using the "Immersive reader" gives students the option to play the text as it is highlighted, plus some other great reading and comprehension options.

All of the features seen in the OneNote Learning Tools have research-based benefits:

The dictation option works well and allows students who are not as fluent at typing to dictate their work directly into OneNote. This even works for a range of different languages - give it a try!

There are many challenges that come with language and literacy barriers, but technology can help students overcome these obstacles and become more independent in class. 

Just one example is the ability to quickly capture content from a worksheet, handout or other text using Office Lens to take a picture. After snapping the photo, you can send the content directly to OneNote. Office Lens recognizes the text via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and also provides ALT text to the OneNote page. The Learning Tools Immersive Reader can be used on the captured photo to quickly read back the text using the text-to-voice technology, and the other Parts of Speech features can be used on the text from the photo.See this OneNote Learning Tools FAQ to help get you up and running with this new tool.

Using Office Lens to send captured content directly to OneNote and use with the Learning Tools.