- Welcome, everyone. Today, I'm on Lutruwita, Tasmanian Aboriginal land, and I want to acknowledge, with deep respect, the traditional custodians of the land, the Palawa people, and pay my respects to Elders, past, present and emerging and to the Aboriginal community that continue to care for Country. I stand for a future that profoundly respects and acknowledges Aboriginal perspective, culture, language and history and the continued effort to fight for Aboriginal justice and rights, paving the way for a strong future. Thank you, all, for joining us today. For those who don't know, my name is Darlene McLennan and I'm the manager of the Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education, or ADCET for short. Today, I'm really excited to be welcoming Troy Waller back to us. Troy is the learning delivery specialist for Microsoft. This is Troy's third presentation. I think we were just chatting then; it was probably mid-last year he presented last time. Troy is going to showcase the Microsoft Immersive Reader. Before we make a start, I probably should have mentioned it straight up, I'm checking on the closed captions… 

- It's working now. 

- We were having trouble with our closed captioning to begin with. For people who wish to use closed captioning, you have variability in how you see that, but we also have closed captioning available in a browser, if you check out the chat box, the link will be there for people who want to see the captions in a browser, as well. If you have any technical difficulties, you can email us throughout the presentation at admin@ADCET.edu.au. Troy will talk to us for about 50 or so minutes and we'll have 10 minutes or so afterwards. Throughout Troy's presentation, feel free to ask any questions that you would like me to ask at the end of the presentation. If you could put those questions in the Q&A pod, that way it's easier for us to manage. David Swayn, NDCO for Northern Queensland is helping me manage the questions today, so he'll be feeding me your questions. Also, as we're getting more and more used to this technology, people are using the chat box and I really encourage you to say to each other, “Hello,” put any links or information that might be relevant to what Troy's saying. But make sure you actually click the panellist and all attendee's box so we all get to enjoy the chatter and get to play along. Alright, now I'm going to throw over to you, Troy. Thank you very much. 

- Okay, wonderful. I'm just making sure that you guys can actually see my screen. 

- Yes, we can. 

- Great, okay, thanks very much. It has been about a year, I think, since I first did... whether it was the first or the last webinar. It's kind of cool, because I think it's good timing to come back to Immersive Reader and look at what the changes that have been made, really, the big change is the fact that it's actually been rolled out to more apps. Not just Microsoft apps, which is quite interesting. Looking at this Immersive Reader as a tool for reading support is, I think, key. What we're going to do in our next webinar - because we've got a series of two, possibly more, but we'll see how we go - the next one is going to focus on writing and showing how some of the tools can be used together to support writing. We'll definitely look at Immersive Reader again a little bit as a writing tool next time, but today is really going to focus more on using Immersive Reader for reading support. 

This is what we're going to look at today. I'm going to take you in quickly and show you the Microsoft Educator Community. That's had an upgrade as well and there's really good resources for you to go back and access. The Inclusive Classroom, we'll talk about that, just about what we mean by that at Microsoft. Then, we're going to dive right into reading support with Immersive Reader, but then I'm going to show you Immersive Reader right across Microsoft 365, because Microsoft 365 is an ecosystem, it’s a platform, but remembering we can bring other apps and tools in. It's not just about Microsoft, but when we have that platform, the Immersive Reader is actually quite powerful across the different tools. We'll have a bit of a play inside Teams, because I know a lot of universities and higher ed institutions and modern workplaces are also using Teams. Then, I'll share next steps and other things that are available to you in resources and we'll jump into Q&A. One thing that I've really learned over this whole sort of remote learning time, which I've been really supporting mostly in K-to-12 schools is that there's so much information in these webinars. It's different to having a face-to-face session where you can sort of, you know, stop and have breaks and do all that kind of stuff. It's really difficult in here. I know there's a lot of information, so I hope you'll use this as a reference where you can go back to access the recording and make it your own and something that you can revisit, because I know, saying upfront, there's a lot of information in here. 

Microsoft's mission statement, this is our mission statement - to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more. I'd underline "every person" there. I can say this, share prices aside and moneymaking machines aside, there's a real culture of responsibility at Microsoft, especially around accessibility and learning support in the education space and it's something that we take very seriously and something that I really enjoy being a part of. I love the fact that when we talk about this kind of work, it really does reflect back on the mission, Microsoft's mission, and it's really helpful for me when I go and talk to the suits and the accountants and people like that, I can actually come back and say, "No, this is our mission, this is really what we're supposed to be doing." People love it and they buy in really quite quickly. 

This is the Microsoft Educator Community; the web address is https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/6E9BCjZryVCQ5JvXS5yk0E?domain=education.microsoft.com. Microsoft Educator Community, https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/6E9BCjZryVCQ5JvXS5yk0E?domain=education.microsoft.com. Please notice there's no “www”. Now, I'm going to take you in and show you that now. I'm going to make sure you guys can see that screen there. Is that right, Darlene? 

- Yes, it is. 

- This is the Educator Centre. We have a series of courses available to you in here. I'm going to share these slides as a PDF, but we'll make these available to you. Any sort of links and stuff that I share with you today, you will be able to access those through the PDF. But when you come into the courses, you can see here that there's a whole series of courses and it's not just K-to-12. This definitely has a higher ed focus as well, and even for teacher trainers as well. If you're in an education course at uni, this is a good resource for you as well. There's some really good stuff in here, but when you start to type in “inclusivity” up here, there's a heap of really nice courses around accessibility and inclusivity. We've got really good stuff happening with Code Jumper which is a tangible hands-on form of coding for the blind, which is awesome. But this one over here, “Empower every student with an inclusive classroom”, is definitely the course that I want you to access, because it's got really good stuff that we're going to address today and even more, and it's a really good reference and a really good resource for you. Again, what I did was I came into https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/6E9BCjZryVCQ5JvXS5yk0E?domain=education.microsoft.com. I click down here on “explore courses” and then, I just started to type the word “inclusive" and as I do, that course comes up for me, so it's in “Empower every student with an inclusive classroom". Please go back and access that and look at other accessibility stuff in there too. 

But we have learning paths, which are groups of courses. We, at Microsoft, have put these together in an order that we think is going to be helpful to you, where one course builds on the other. Again, if I start to type “inclusivity”, you can see, we have three different inclusive education courses. I'll just click on this one, for example, which is the foundation course and you can see here that there's a whole heap of courses built together, and there's that "Empower every student with an inclusive classroom" course again, but you can come and go to these at your own pace. You don't need to be an educator. When you come to this, you can sign in using a free Microsoft account, or use your Office 365 account, which is probably your uni email address and uni password. A really good series of resources there for you. 

Let's keep moving. https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/PzhDCk8vzVfzW0pjT9JE7V?domain=office.com is the start page for Office 365 and again, if you're from a university or a tertiary institution, you will probably find your email address, just your usual email address and whatever that password you tend to use with that in your university system will get you in. It's https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/8ZpjClxwAVHNnKv8c1GYh8?domain=office.com, sign in and it's pretty straightforward, as I said. Just using your email address. 

Now, what I want to share with you today, though, is we're going to look at the online stuff, but I want to just quickly talk about the difference between the different kinds of Office. There's Office that we know and love installed on our Mac or PC, but then, there's all this cloud-based stuff and I want to make sure you understand the differences, and it does matter, because a lot of the accessibility tools are not going to be found in earlier versions of Office. So, I want to show you how to access the latest, greatest version of Office, because, chances are, almost 100% of you will actually have access to installed versions of Office on your machine that has been paid for by your institution that you may not have even known about. I may have talked about this last time when I did my webinar, but it's still true. 

Office 2019 is the latest, greatest version of Office available to you. You have probably installed that, hopefully you have, or you may still be using Office 2016. The problem with that version, though, is that it doesn't mature. What I mean by that is, if you've installed Office 2019 which, to confuse us, came out in 2018 - if you installed that two years ago, there's no new feature updates. It's pretty much as it was released, so it is a static version of Office. When we talk about Office 365, which is Office in the cloud, which we looked at briefly a moment ago going into https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/8ZpjClxwAVHNnKv8c1GYh8?domain=office.com - we'll come back to that in a moment - but this is where we're using the browser-based version. It's very similar to your Google Docs experience. Coming through the browser, whether you’re on your phone, laptop or iPad, you can go in through your browser and access that. 

But what we've got is this other version of Office called Microsoft 365, or Microsoft 365 apps. The apps are very similar to Office 2019, however, the Microsoft 365 apps update with new features. What I mean is, as a new feature or a new tool or a new capability is added, it's not going into Office 2019, but it will go into Microsoft 365 apps. What that means for you, though, as a student or teacher is, you need to be able to get that, and most institutions, if not all, have actually got five free copies for every teacher and every student that's been paid for. I remember when I was doing my Masters at Melbourne Uni a number of years ago, I'd heard a rumour — I wasn't working for Microsoft, I heard a rumour that Melbourne Uni gave me free copies of Office, is this true? When I asked there, I was, even though the co-op was bundling Office, you could pay for it with your new device, it turned out the university had given it to us all for free. When I later found out is every single Education Department in Australia has done the same. Most Catholic diocese have done the same, most independent schools have done the same - that, we didn't know. So, my wife had five free copies as a teacher, I had five free copies as a teacher, my two kids had five free copies as students in the Victorian education system. We had 20 copies and I had no idea we had one. I want to show you quickly how to access that, because it's really important for you to know where to find that and how to find that. 

- I might encourage you to slow down a tiny little bit. You’re doing well, but… thanks. 

- When we come into https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/8ZpjClxwAVHNnKv8c1GYh8?domain=office.com, over here is this little button here, “Install Office". When you come in, on your Mac or PC, to https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/8ZpjClxwAVHNnKv8c1GYh8?domain=office.com, so you're on the machine you want to install Office onto, you click on this little button here and then, you click here, "Install Office 365 apps". By doing that, it will come up with a dialogue box - I'm not going to do it now, it will slow my system down - but it will download and install the latest, greatest version of Microsoft 365 apps and put that onto your machine. If you’re running Office 2019 or 2016, it will write over the top and you'll have the latest, greatest version and because you've got that, because it's a subscription service, it will constantly update with new features depending on what release you're on. Whether you're getting it updated once a year, once every six months or even more frequently than that. Again, what we did was we went to https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/8ZpjClxwAVHNnKv8c1GYh8?domain=office.com, clicked up here on "Install Office" and then, the Office 365 apps come up like that. The accessibility features are rolled out all the time and as those things are rolled out, then, you want to get them on your version of Office. Please update and get yourself into that. 

That's that. Now, in terms of inclusive education, Microsoft, we pride ourselves in seeing that our inclusive education tools are going to give students more personalised access to the curriculum, they're going to optimise the educator time. Whether you're a lecturer or a tutor, these tools are going to make your life easier and I promise you that is true, no just spin. Lastly, we want to improve learning outcomes and make sure people are better accessing their curriculum and in the end, they're learning. We want to see students increase their independence and experience a reduction of stigma. We're talking about the same device as everybody else in the classroom and the same software as everybody else in the classroom. Again, I said, educators are more empowered to engage every learner, we want to make sure that educators can see this as something helpful to them and not another thing they have to master. Then, lastly, of course, institutions are able to build reputations as positive places that promote equity and inclusion. By this being made available to students, it's a good thing for the university's reputation in the community. 

So, when we talk about the inclusive classroom, now, remembering, we're not just talking about higher ed at Microsoft, we're also talking about K-to-12. This is right through your student life, but we've divided it into these four areas. One being reading support, which we're going to address today. Another, writing support, which will be our next webinar. Then, we also have some tools that will support you in terms of numeracy and maths and also, speaking and listening. 

But jumping in today, let's talk about reading support. If you don't know the story of Immersive Reader, it was originally called Learning Tools and it won Microsoft's 2015 internal Hackathon. So, a group of Microsoft developers, marketing people, admin all got together. They could walk away from their job for a week or two and work on something they thought was meaningful. It's a long time ago now, it's five years ago, but they built learning tools specifically looking at dyslexia, but Learning Tools became quite popular outside of the education space, so it was rebranded as Immersive Reader. We've seen it not only in the higher ed space, but also in business, et cetera. Let's jump in and let's have a look at Immersive Reader. I'm going to show it to you, its capabilities. It might have been a little while since you've seen it or maybe not at all, but then, we're going to jump in and look at where it lives right across the Microsoft stack. 

Let's start in Word. I want to stress that, really, most of you, as you know, there's Word for Mac, Word for Windows 10, older versions of Word, there's Word Online, which is Word in the browser. But the Immersive Reader that lives inside Word Online is somewhat different to the version that lives in the Windows 10 app of Word. So, we are going to look at that next week, the one that lives in the Windows 10 app, because that's really good for writing. The fact that they are different is actually a positive, because one really supports reading and the other more supports writing. So, we will definitely explore the Windows 10 app next webinar, but for this one, we're going to jump into Word Online and the cool thing about this is, regardless of what tool you're on, whether you're on a Mac, an iPad, whether you're on a PC, because we're coming in through the browser, we're all going to have the same experience. 

When you come into https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/8ZpjClxwAVHNnKv8c1GYh8?domain=office.com, here's a lot of your online apps, but you've got a lot more if you click on "All apps" over here, but we're going to jump into Word. All I need to do is click on Word like that and that's going to open my document. I've obviously set this one up already. Here's a piece of text that a student may be challenged by, simply because of its presentation, because of its form, maybe the language. Maybe the student is challenged, because they come from a language background other than English. Whatever the challenge, Immersive Reader, hopefully, is going to have some level of support for you. 

If you haven't seen Word Online before, Word Online is quite wonderful, because it's very similar to the Word that we know and love, unless you're using a very old version of Word. But you can see here, if you know how to use Word, then you'll know how to use Word Online. We've got another thing up here called "Tell me…”. “Tell me what you want to do” is our search bar, but it doesn’t just give us instructions, it will actually bring the buttons up. Immersive Reader, whilst it lives here under the View tab, and I can find Immersive Reader… if I don't remember where it lives, I can just start to type "Immersive Reader" in here. It actually brings the button up here for me as part of that dropdown. I click on that and there we go; it's opened Immersive Reader. I'm just going to click over here, I'm going to maximise that, because I want to remove all the distractions of the browser. 

What Immersive Reader does - I'll minimise that again and bring that down again - you can see that when I click on the Immersive Reader button, the first thing it does is strips away the app, so Word is actually gone and I've just got the document. I want to make sure that I get rid of all my distractions, so I click on that little button up there. I'm in the document, all the bells and whistles and buttons and colours, all the distractions are gone and I've just got me and the document. It's black text on a white background. At the moment, it's quite small, but that's okay. Everything that I need to change in this document is now inside the document itself. I'm not having to go out to my settings on my Mac, PC or browser, everything that I need is inside. I've got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 different icons here. Let's start with the text preferences icon, or the AA. I'm going to click on that and you can see, I get a dropdown here and this is where I get to start to manipulate the text. Look at this. As I increase my text size with this slider, I’m just moving my slider up and down - as I move my slider up and down, the text size is changed right there inside the text, so I'm able to do that inside the document. 

The other thing I can do is increase the spacing. I'm going to click on this little “increase spacing” button there and it's increased the spaces between the lines, the spaces between the letters and the spaces between the words. For something like dyslexia and with visual crowding, that's actually going to be a game-changer, and I can accentuate that even further by increasing the text size even further. I've got three simple fonts that I can access. I've also got the ability to change my themes. I can set my theme to dark mode, I can have black on yellow, black on blue, et cetera. The other thing I can do is I can show the source formatting and what that does, is I've got... let me scroll down for you… if I've got things like bold and italics in text, that will leave me inside so I can turn that on and off as well. Where it gets really cool, though, is when I come down here and hit the play button. The play button is where I turn on Read Aloud. This has just been updated in the last week or so. So, now, the Australian accent has got a brand new voice. Listen to this. 

- An academic or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and discussion of research.

- Right. So, hopefully, you can hear that. It used to sound — I used to think it sounded quite natural, but now it sounds even better. You've also got the voice settings button here, so I can slow it down and speed it up. Those of you that use screen readers or know people that use screen readers know that speeding up is more important than slowing down. I'll just play that for you. 

- What that’s doing there is, people — they don't necessarily have any sort of cognitive impairment; they are just unable to access the text, so they want it to come nice and fast. You can slow it down and speed it up. The other thing we've got inside here when I click on the “grammar options” button is I’ve got the ability to syllabify, so it will break the words down into their syllables and the artificial intelligence is actually much better than it was before and it's really good at its ability to break those down into syllables. I can highlight my parts of speech, so I can click on these little buttons and show all the nouns, the verbs, the adjectives and the adverbs. I can change the colours of those. If I have trouble differentiating or distinguishing certain colours, I can make sure those colours are very different so that it becomes easier for me to distinguish my nouns from my verbs, et cetera. But if I do have trouble with colours, I can click on this little “show the labels" button here and that will actually put those labels above those words. Now, what's happening there is that the AI is actually reading the words in context. If I had a word like, say, for example, "tag”. “I will tag you,” it will find it as a verb. “Let's play a game of tag,” it will find it as a noun. Words that actually could be ambiguous in terms of what parts of speech, it will actually contextualise them for you. It's important to note that for it to be able to do that, it needs to be able to access the online service, so we do need to be connected to the internet when we're using Immersive Reader. If you have a Windows 10 machine, there is an extension that is downloadable for Windows 10, go into your Microsoft Windows store on your Windows 10 machine and you can download the offline extension, that is there for you, as well. 

Again, a moment ago, we saw the parts of speech, et cetera. Let's click on the reading preferences button. The first thing we can do is we can turn on line focus. I'm going to make this just a little bit smaller, let's come back in here. You can see, with line focus, I have 1, 3 and 5-line, line focus depending on what you need. So, if you're having difficulty with some of that focus, this is that sort of computerised version of running your finger underneath the words as you read. Let's have a look at that. 

- Academic journal, according to Henry Oldenburg (the first editor of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society), is to give researchers a venue to impart their knowledge to one another…

- That's quite cool. Let me turn that off for you. The other thing we've got is picture dictionary, which is much more about a K-to-12 thing, but I do know that some people find it helpful at times when they hit a word and they want to get that little bit of a picture prompt. For example, if we click on some of these words, you'll see that when I click on that, I can see it and hear it…

- Natural.

- Just the word, I don't need to have the whole document, but it will also give me picture prompts, and obviously, not every single word is going to have a picture dictionary prompt, but a lot do and these are not contextualised. It's actually going to bring up all different potential answers for you. Okay, so, that's picture dictionary. 

Now, the other thing we've got is translate. Translate is actually, probably, my favourite part of this tool, because I think it's way cool. We can translate into another language. For example, if we're thinking about a lot of our students are actually coming into — it's actually one in four come from a language background other than English, whether they're international or not. That's a university stat. If I come down into something like simplified Chinese, now what happens, when I click on a word, I'm going to see it and hear it in English…

- Scholarly.

- And see it and hear it in my language, and in this case, it's Chinese… which has also got a very natural-sounding voice. What I've done is I’ve come into the translate tool and I've just clicked “by word”. Let's have a look at another language, for example, Korean. I come down here to Korean. Now, when I click on a word that I may be struggling with, I can see it and hear it in English…

- Published.

- And see it and hear it in Korean… Now, when I want to do the entire document, so I just click here on "document”… you can see that what it's done there is actually translated that entire document into Korean. I can go backwards and forwards between the English and the Korean, or the original language and the Korean, and I can have that read to me in Korean… Depending on the language that we're choosing, the features are going to be different, and what I mean by that is you can see that Korean has actually got the parts of speech, it's highlighted that. Korean will also have a picture dictionary. Let me try and find it… Korean will actually have a picture dictionary, but when I go into something like Mandarin, which I was in a moment ago, I was in the Chinese simplified, you can see that when I translate that, I've not got the parts of speech, I've not got the picture dictionary, et cetera, but it has actually got a really nice voice. Have a listen… The more complex the text, the more difficult the translation is going to be, so keep that in mind. More simple texts, it's going to have an easier time translating, but it is a very powerful tool. 

Not every language is going to have a voice. Not every language is going to have parts of speech, not every language is going to have picture dictionaries, but it is there. So, you can see, in terms of being an EAL or an ESL learner, it's fantastic, but also if you're learning another language, if you're learning Japanese or French, this has got a lot of really cool potential. I really like the fact that because that translation, that voice is so good in some of those languages, it actually helps me with my conversation, with my spoken pronunciation, et cetera. Go in and have a bit of a play with that. 

Again, what it looked like before was a piece of text that looked like that, but now, when I click on Immersive Reader, it remembers exactly the way that I've said it. So, we're not having to go back and do all those settings every time we go in. Once I've set this up on my machine, it will remember my settings and it will make it quite easy for me every time I come in. So, regardless of what the original document looked like, now it's always going to look exactly as I want it to look whenever I click on the Immersive Reader button. 

Let's keep moving. Now, the cool thing about this as well, Immersive Reader not just has the ability to translate, but it also has the ability to identify multiple languages. When it comes on to a document, let me take you back here… I’m going to jump out of that one and close that one down… have a look at this document here. In this document, you can see, there's Japanese, Arabic, there's French, German, Nordic languages, there's Chinese, there's so much going on in this document. Immersive Reader can actually read those documents and identify the different languages. So, when I click on Immersive Reader here, when I click on play, have a look what happens and listen to the way Immersive Reader jumps back and forth towards these different languages and imagine how many people you would have to have in the room to be able to do this without a computer. 

- Here is an example of English being spoken…

- Again, some of the languages have male and female languages, Australian, in particular, only has a female, but if I was to click that over now and play... it's going to jump back and forth between male and female depending on what I'm comfortable with. We look at that and we see all these different languages. I want you to put yourself in a position of someone that's maybe coming from an EAL background and for us to look at these languages, for most of us, it's become gibberish to us, because we can't decode that, but I want you to imagine, for us translating this, let's go into English and let's go into our Aussie accent, and now, let's do the entire document. A moment ago, that was all these different languages, now have a look at this… 

- Here is an example of English being spoken. To be conquered without peril, one triumphs without glory. Don’t leave for tomorrow what you can do today. It is easier to give birth than to think.

- You can see here, here's all these different languages and we're going straight in, the ability for this to translate is really quite powerful. It's not only identifying these languages, it's also doing that translation, which is great. 

So, where do we fine Immersive Reader? We've already seen it's in Word Online and I'm going to take you and show you Word for Windows 10 next time, but we can find it in Office 365. For most of us that are working in the education sector, or maybe as a student, Office 365 is probably available to you, your institution has probably already purchased it for you, so, you go to https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/8ZpjClxwAVHNnKv8c1GYh8?domain=office.com and sign in with your university email address and password and you're in, but we also have a free version, which is not as feature-rich as Office 365 in terms of tools, but Office Online does have your basics - Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc. - and you can access that with a free account. So, just go, again, into https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/8ZpjClxwAVHNnKv8c1GYh8?domain=office.com, set yourself up a free account. It's pretty easy to do and it will take you into Office Online. It's also available in Teams. 

Now, what I'm going to do is take you in and show you some of the individual tools. I want to show you where to find it and how easy it is to use. I'm going to take us into OneNote for Windows 10. When I click on OneNote…  excuse me, when I click on View and over here on Immersive Reader, you can see that Immersive Reader is actually here now, because this is in a different app, it's not come through my browser, I'd have to go in and set that up, but once I've set it up, it's ready to go, but it's right there living in OneNote. It's also available to us in OneNote Online. You can come in through your browser and you can be accessing that. You don't need to have, necessarily, a powerful machine. If you've got a browser, you can come in through OneNote Online. I click on that and because we're back in the browser, it's remembered my settings. There it is, straight through the OneNote app. 

- A change that has occurred in the Western world is an increased incidence in divorce when people no longer want to be married so they want to make…

- A bit depressing, but there you go. That's where it lives in there. Now, the other thing I want to share with you is it is available, as I said, through the browser. If you're on a Mac, a PC, a Chromebook, an iPad and you’re using your browser, you can access it in Word, you can access it in OneNote and some of these other tools, we'll look at in a moment. But if you're wanting to use dedicated apps, then please note, it is not in Word and it is not in — it's not in Word for the iPad and it's not in Word for the Mac. You can go through the browser, but it's not in the dedicated apps. However, it is in OneNote. So, there's a dedicated app for OneNote for iPad and dedicated app for OneNote for Mac and you can access Immersive Reader through those. 

Next thing I want to share with you is Office Lens. I think I talked about this a little bit last time. Office Lens is an app for your iPad, iPhone, and for your Android tablets and phones. There's dedicated apps. You'll see the icon on the Play Store, look for Microsoft Office Lens, you’ll see the icon there on the left-hand side of the screen and you can download that onto your device. Now, I'm going to show you this now. I want to show you the potential. This is looking at it as an iPhone, but what I'm about to show you is possible through your Android devices as well. I'm just going to play this video for us. 

- Turn your iPhone into a scanner. Office Lens crops, straightens, enhances and makes pictures, whiteboards and documents readable. How do you save and share your meeting notes on the whiteboard after meetings? Use Office Lens. Just frame your shot from any angle and snap a picture. Office Lens automatically crops, straightens, sharpens and cleans up whiteboard images.

- Let me just stop there for a moment. This is the whiteboard feature of Office Lens. If you're unable to keep up with what’s going on, maybe you’re in a tute or a lecture and there's a heap of notes on the whiteboard, you can use Office Lens to grab a picture, whether you’re on your iPhone, your iPad or your Android device and you can grab that photograph of the whiteboard and it will straighten and it will sharpen and it will clean up that image for you. So, that's whiteboard mode, but let's keep going. 

- Save the image to OneNote or OneDrive and get it from any of your devices. Or, share the image in an email. Do you ever worry about misplacing important documents? Switch to document mode and Office Lens will trim and colour the image perfectly. Save time and convert the image to a Word document the you can edit.

- What we see here is what's called document mode. When you get the app, you can switch over to document mode and it will take photographs of documents. It will use optical character recognition and convert those into PDFs, into Word documents, et cetera, drop them into OneNote. You can have a document that's analogued and out in the non-digital world, take a photograph of that with Office Lens and then, you can turn it into a document that you can edit, et cetera. Now, where that's really cool... let me just jump back into this for us… where that's really cool is when I come into something like OneNote. What I've done here is I've taken a photograph of a textbook using Office Lens. I've taken a photograph and then, I've dropped that into OneNote for Windows 10. Just using the features, because we're in the one ecosystem, from my iPhone or from my Android phone, I can tell it where I want it to drop and it will come in here into OneNote. Now, what I do is when I click on Immersive Reader, because it's using that optimal character recognition, look at this - I have that full Immersive Reader experience... let me just turn on my nouns and adjectives… I have that full Immersive Reader experience happening from the photograph of text. I can play it just like this… 

- Stunned that she felt she had to ask my permission to find her own answer.

- So, a moment ago, it looked like this, but then, when I click on Immersive Reader, it will take me in. What's happened for the iPhone... and I'm just going to make sure that I can come back into this for you guys, just give me a moment. What’s happened for the iPhone… so, this isn’t yet on Android, this is only on iPad and iPhone, we've put Immersive Reader inside the actual app, so it's the full Immersive Reader experience. What happens is you can see here that this person is using their iPhone, have a look what they do. They're taking a photograph,  there it is, they click on it like that. Instead of dropping it into OneNote, we can actually click on the Immersive Reader button inside the app and the full Immersive Reader experience now happens. 

- Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout would not take the garbage out.

- That full experience, changing the text size, increasing spacing, et cetera, is all happening. This is for iOS. Feel free to download that and have a play with that. You don't need to be dropping it into OneNote or Word Online or anything like that. Have a look at the translation. There it is with picture dictionary… that's what that looks like. 

- What a shame we can't travel, Troy, and take pictures of menus and have them read out. 

- That would be good, wouldn't it? A really good example of how that could be used is if a student or if a person is at a train station and there's some sort of disruption notice or there's some sort of warning notice at an airport or something like that, you can actually just take your phone up to that picture or to that sign, take a photograph of that, turn it back and have it read to you in your language in realtime. Last time I gave this demo, that didn't exist, but in the last year - I just love it. We're getting closer and closer to Star Trek's universal translator. 

Let’s keep going. This is, now, the Edge browser. If you're using a Windows 10 device, there are some features in the Edge browser that weren't there before. I'm going to just jump back into my… here I am at 'The Age' website. I've got an article about Pauline Hanson and what she's doing from today. There's graphics and all kinds of stuff in here. You can see what we've done in the Edge browser is we've now built Immersive Reader directly into the Edge browser. There used to be a version of this, but not as feature-rich as this is now. Look what happens, when I click on the Immersive Reader button, it takes me into the document. Look at this, it hasn't taken the graphics away because, obviously, in websites, graphics are often times really important, but I've still got the ability to read aloud. Have a look at this. 

- Pauline Hanson imposes ‘deadline’ of Thursday to reopen Queensland borders. National. Coronavirus pandemic. For our free coronavirus pandemic coverage, learn more here.

- It's struggling with "Coronavirus”, too, a new word for it. We've got read aloud and also the ability to, again, increase and decrease our text size, we can increase and decrease our spacing. We've got all these page themes again. We've got reading preferences over here with line focus, 1, 3 and 5 lines and also the grammar tools, the ability to syllabify and we've also got the highlighting of our nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. What’s missing there is translation. You can put the translation extension into this and you can be translating, as well. A moment ago, that document was full of ads and links and all kinds of bits and pieces and then, when I click on Immersive Reader, it's going to remember it exactly as I wanted it to be. That's what it looks like in Edge. 

The next one is Microsoft Forms. Microsoft Forms, very similar to some of your other survey tools, but what we've done - I'm going to be really quick about this, because I know time is slipping away - it's going to make me sign in, so I'll just do that really quickly. When I come into Microsoft Forms, now, we've built Immersive Reader into that. You can see here, the Immersive Reader, as I hover over these questions and hover over this information, the Immersive Reader button comes up. This is a form that I can fill in, so it's asking me a question, true or false, et cetera. When I click on it here, we can see Immersive Reader remembering my settings, it's going to read the entire question to me and the potential answers. 

- 2. Microsoft 365 Apps can be installed on your laptop. (1 Point). True. False. [End of question. Close the reader to input your answer.]

- So, I close it and then, I can give my answer, I can listen to that as many times as I want. That's what it looks like in Forms. 

The next one I want to show you is the integration into Outlook. This is key, because we're looking, now, at our emails. The ability to have Immersive Reader inside our emails is great. Look, here's an email that I sent to myself. If I'm having trouble accessing that, that's okay, I come up here to my ellipsis, my three dots at the top of the screen, show it in Immersive Reader and now, my emails are read to me. 

- Hi there, Troy, I am just writing to you so you can show everyone how to use Immersive Reader in Outlook in the browser. See you later. Your friend, Troy.

- That's a bit weird, isn't it? I'm sending myself emails and calling myself my friend! I can highlight parts of speech and do translation, all kinds of stuff. Again, for students and anyone, really, this is a really cool tool. I know this is not going to be relevant so much in the higher ed space, but I want to throw this in that we've built Immersive Reader into Minecraft Education Edition. That means that Minecraft, which is notoriously text-based, students or children can actually, now, hear and translate those slates and those chalkboards and other things they come across. 

We've got it inside Teams as well, so Immersive Reader lives inside Teams. I'm going to bring you in and show you, when I'm inside the posts, so this is where we're having our discussion, so this is our chat in the post area. This is the public chat. If I come to something and I want to know what people are talking about, I just hover. I've got my ellipsis and now, here's Immersive Reader as well. I can have that entire chat read to me and you can see, it's remembering my settings, because I'm in the browser. 

The other thing that we've done is actually built Immersive Reader into assignments, as well. Those of you that are using Teams for education purposes, now, when a student clicks on their assignments, we're going into student view so we can see what it looks like, Immersive Reader is over here. So, all the instructions, et cetera, for this assignment can all be read to the student directly through Immersive Reader. We've tried to build that right across all different aspects of our tools. But what's amazing about Teams, is Teams brings everything together. OneNote inside Teams, Forms inside Teams, Word inside Teams and remembering that Immersive Reader lives inside these tools. When we put our learning engagements or our work environments inside Teams, we know people are going to be able to access Immersive Reader regardless of what tool they're using because these are all native to Teams. Immersive Reader in Word in Teams, Immersive Reader in Forms in Teams. Immersive Reader in OneNote in Teams. Really quite powerful. 

The other thing that's happened is that Microsoft has made the Immersive Reader API free for any organisation to use, so that's true for your university if you're building apps you can bring the Immersive Reader API into your app and you can see, some of these companies - these are non-Microsoft companies - that have actually built Immersive Reader into their stuff. Canvas now has Immersive Reader in Canvas pages. Oxford University Press has started building Immersive Reader into their ebooks and other things as well. If you've got a favourite app and think Immersive Reader would be perfect, you can reach out to the publisher directly and let them know. There's a link at the bottom here, so you can steer them to that. I'm told it's about half a day's work for a developer to build this into their apps and websites, et cetera. 

How are we going for time? Coming up on time, aren't we? 

- A lot of the questions, we probably can answer afterwards. Continue on and we can do questions another day. 

- In terms of next steps, again, I want to share these slides with you, so you can go back and access. There's a really good page in the educator centre called All About the Immersive Reader which will tell you everything you need to know. There's PDFs and videos and all kinds of stuff. Remember, I also told you about empower every student with an inclusive classroom. It's a great course that I think you're going to find really useful and you can learn how to use Immersive Reader and other tools in an education context. 

The other thing that's happened is that Microsoft, with the whole remote learning period that we've been going through, have published a web page inside the educator centre, Special Education and Accessibility Resources for Remote Learning. It is much bigger than just remote learning, though. Don't see that and go, okay, we're not remote learning. Blended learning, in class, et cetera, and that’s https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/AvvfCmOxBVhNJYr3cDdc5I?domain=aka.ms. Grab that link when you get the slides, but there's so much stuff for you there, whether you're in a higher ed space or K to 12 space or in a working environment. Another one - and I won't take you to these ones now, but will quickly talk through them -  we've got the Disability Answers Desk. These links will work when you access. The Disability Answers Desk is a 9am to 9pm, Monday to Friday, 10am to 6pm on weekends, 1800 number and you can call that number and if you've got questions about accessibility in Office or on Windows 10, even if you're on your iPad or Mac and you've got questions about Office, they will help you around disability questions. Don't ring them and say, “I’m having trouble turning on my computer.” No, they're not a help desk in that sense, but around disability, 100%, they're there to help you. There is a 24/7 text-based chat, but if you want to speak to someone, it's basically 9 to 9, Monday to Friday. 

There's the Microsoft accessibility YouTube channel. Wonderful videos on there for you to access. Please jump in. This one here, I want to show you quickly, because this is Microsoft's Accessibility Feedback channel. If you have suggestions for accessibility features and tools, you can pop them in here or if you like what someone else has suggested, you can vote, and the higher the number, the quicker this will be worked on. You can go in there and give your feedback and have a bit of a vote. The other thing is the Microsoft Enable Twitter handle, @MSFTEnable, is another one worth jumping in and there's a couple of e-books that are free that I invite you to look at as well. 

I'm going to leave these slides for you to explore in your own time so we can chat and see if there's any questions. If you want to find me on social media, that's me on Twitter, you can find me on LinkedIn and Facebook just by searching for my name. You'll know it's me because of my avatar here. I did try and slow down, I hope I wasn’t too fast. Let's see if there was any questions. 

- There are a lot of questions, but it's probably going to be people more having the time to explore. There's a lot of practical questions and also, it might be worth - I know I will do it - is go back over the presentation and do that exploration. One of the questions was, can you take a photo of a textbook page and it be inserted into a Word document using the Immersive Reader? I suppose I'm trying to unpack the question, but I saw you take the picture and have an Immersive Reader, but to get it into Word, then? 

- Yes, definitely. We saw that video where he did take a photo of the text and using it on Word, definitely can be dropped in there and turn Immersive Reader on. 

- It just got dropped into Word, that's great. Another one was, can you toggle the word highlighting as it reads off and on and how does that work? 

- No. When we're using Immersive Reader, it will actually highlight the words as it goes along. What you can turn on and off is the line focus. You can turn the line focus on and off, but no, it will actually highlight each word, there's no way to turn that off. 

- Does it work in PowerPoint? 

- No, but I know that if you want to, as I mentioned before, if you want to vote on that, I know a lot of people want to see it brought into PowerPoint. Please jump in and give your suggestion there. 

- I was thinking when we'd spoken previously about that voting, it might be something on the list. We have a list of over 700 practitioners across the tertiary sector. We might put key questions out and get people voting, get issues up and running. 

- Mobilise the troops, that sounds brilliant. 

- That's great. You did talk about the internet connection; can you go through? Just explain, because I know you actually mentioned this before that it does need the internet connection, but what was the one that didn't need the internet connection? 

- Yeah, sure. This is only true for Windows 10, but if you're on your Windows device and type in here, I start to type “store” and it brings up the Microsoft store. You don’t need to sign in. You will get options to sign in, you don't need to, but then, what you can do, if I come in here to Immersive Reader, there's the Immersive Reader offline extension and you can install that onto your machine. 

- The PDF one is absolutely fantastic, take a picture of the PDF and get that converted, is there a limit to that? How many pictures can you take… 

- Not that I'm aware of. 

- That's brilliant. One great question, does it convert to Braille? 

- Not that I know of, sorry. 

- What a brilliant question. 

- You know what, you're talking at the moment with Kenny Singh, one of our Microsoft internal folks who himself uses screen readers and these kinds of things, that would be a great question for him about what sort of integration is there with Braille devices, et cetera. 

- Someone is talking about the issue they're having with Teams in the question about Teams with screen readers. We had asked Troy to cover off a little bit about Teams and the issue with screen readers, but it's not his kind of expertise. Troy has put us onto a person within Microsoft that will be able to hopefully work with us on a presentation. Hopefully, that presentation will come in about two or three weeks. 

- Wonderful, and he's great, and that's Kenny. 

- I think he'll be a good friend. Someone's just also asked, can IR be used in Sway? Does that make sense? 

- Can Immersive Reader be used in Sway? As long as you're using the Edge browser. As far as I know, at the moment, Immersive Reader has not been made native to the Sway app, but if you open your Sway inside the Edge browser, then you'll be able to click on the Immersive Reader button and it should be able to read your Sway like any other web page. If I'm wrong about that, reach out to me and I'll find a better way around it, but I'm guessing that's exactly how it would work. 

- That's brilliant. We put in the chat that Troy's presentation will be available up on ADCET in the next day or two or three, but probably in the next day or two knowing how Jane works, and the presentation will be there, so you'll be able to click through on those links and take some time to explore the Immersive Reader more, because it's absolutely fantastic. Our next presentation is happening next week and Troy is going to talk to us about support for writing using Microsoft Tools. That's a presentation for next week, so if you haven't signed on, please do. Troy, your presentation is brilliant as always. I kind of come away with this mind-blowingly just thinking how far we've come. I started in the sector 15 years ago and could never have imagined that we've come this far in such a short time, so it's absolutely brilliant what Microsoft has given to accessibility. 

- Yes, wonderful. Thanks for having me. 

- Thank you for your time and thank you everybody for joining us. We will go through the questions and just see if there's anything that Troy can answer and put that on our website. Thank you for joining us and hopefully, we'll see you all next week.