- Good afternoon, everyone. Today, I'm on Lutruwita, Tasmanian Aboriginal land, sea and waterways, and I want to acknowledge, with deep respect, the traditional custodians of this land, the Palawa people. I want to pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging and to the Aboriginal community that continues to care for Country. I stand for a future that profoundly respects and acknowledges Aboriginal perspectives, culture, language and history and a continued effort to fight for Aboriginal justice and rights paving the way for a strong future. This time, like many times, I think it's good to reflect on that here and around the world. Thank you for joining us today. My name is Darlene McLennan and I'm the manager of the Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training, ADCET for short. Today, we're excited to welcome Troy Waller. As always, this is probably the fourth presentation that Troy has done for us. Every time, I'm blown away, or each time, I'm blown away with how much technology has moved and is able to provide support for people with disability. Last week, Troy presented to us on Immersive Readers and if you were unable to attend that presentation, I encourage you to go back to ADCET under the webinars and check that out. I kept going, "Wow, wow, wow!" The whole way through the presentation. It was amazing what that technology can now do. Today, Troy is going to be delivering a session for us focusing on Writing Support in Microsoft Tools. Troy is a learning development specialist for Microsoft and has many years’ experience in this area. Before we start, a bit of housekeeping. To activate the closed captions, you can click on the CC button in the tool bar which is located either at the top or the bottom of your screen. We also have the closed captions available for you in a browser if that's your preferred method and Jane has just put that into the chat box now for you to access. If you have any technical difficulties throughout the presentation, you can email us at admin@adcet.edu.au. Troy is going to talk to us for around 50 minutes or so and then we'll have some questions. Throughout the presentation, if you have any questions for Troy, please put that into the Q&A box and I'll be able to ask those at the end of his presentation and in that, you can also rate your favourite questions. You can actually look for the thumbs up button and click on that, and that means the questions get pushed up to the top. That helps us manage the questions. We also encourage people to chat throughout the presentation and you can use the chat box for that. Just make sure that you choose all panellists and attendees so people can join in the conversation. It's been great. We've seen people say hi from New Zealand or the Mallee or from wherever else, and that's great. Finally, we do send a survey out at the end of our presentation, so that will come into your inbox as soon as this webinar finishes. We encourage you to fill that in. Especially if you have any ideas for future webinars, we're always looking for great presenters and content, please get in touch and let us know if you've got any suggestions. That's it, Troy. That's enough from me, so thank you once again for joining us today, and over to you. - Thank you very much. I'm going to check that you guys can hear me… - Yes, all good to go. - The curse of online webinars is that mute button. What we're going to do today is look at writing support, but I want to give you a direction on where we're going to go. We're going to look at the Microsoft Educator Community again and talk to you about the inclusive classroom and we’re going to jump in. What I'm presenting today is not an exhaustive list of all the things you can do to support writing with Microsoft tools, not even close. It is looking at things that are new release, or more recent release, and those are the tools we're going to focus on. Hopefully, that's going to be new tools for you or, at least, ideas you hadn't come across before. We're going to look at Dictate across Office and Immersive Reader, we're going to talk about Editor which you may or may not know is Microsoft's new Office 365 writing support tool. We'll look at Word prediction in Windows 10. Sorry, Mac and Chromebook users, that one’s going to be irrelevant to you. The rest of it should be spot on. We’re also going to look at writing with the Word desktop app and some of the Immersive Reader features in there, spend a bit of time on next steps and then we'll go into Q&A. I am going to preface this as I probably did last time and say, I am working from home, I have two kids upstairs, pies in the oven, there’s a dog behind me, the neighbour's dog is barking, hopefully Zoom will filter this noise out. Nevertheless, just putting that upfront. The other thing I wanted to mention was a few people last time, or last week, had said my screen was blurry for them to see. Apologies in advance. There's not much I can do for that, it's all about the bandwidth. As I said, I’m working from home. I usually have pretty good internet, but some days, there can be a drag on the neighbourhood networks. Apologies upfront, there's not much we can do about it. Remembering our mission statement at Microsoft is to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more. As I said last week, I really like the fact that the accessibility piece that we talk about really does focus on our mission statement, that is to empower every person. Not just the mainstream and not just the margins. We're doing our best to target everybody. The https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/myJTC91Zn7fEJ78MIob-Rv?domain=education.microsoft.com website, or the Microsoft Educator Centre, is your online portal for professional development. If you're coming from a K-to-12 background, this is largely recognised by your teacher registration boards, but even if you're not, that's fine. There's some really good stuff in there. We have specific courses targeted to higher education as well and I'll steer you back to some of the courses that I think are relevant to what we're looking at today as we come to the end. There are individual courses, so you can learn how to use Microsoft technology with students or even yourself in effective and engaging ways. We have learning paths which group those courses together and you can do it in a linear fashion or drop in and out of those courses, but they tend to build off one another. It will keep a record of achievements if you need to demonstrate your own professional learning to others. The sign-in start page for Office 365, or Microsoft 365, is https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/U939C0YZ4yFwnPjMcDtMEB?domain=office.com. Sounds like the pies are ready! This is the start page, remembering that when you sign in, you sign in using your university or institution email address and your password, assuming you've got an Office 365 account, which most of you will, that will get you in. But you can set up what we call a consumer account which is a free account as well and you'll get limited features, but still be able to access some of that stuff. I want to talk to you - and I did last time a little bit as well - about the difference between Office and Office 365 and the different versions of Office, because I want to make sure that you actually have the most up-to-date versions of this software and you’ll find that almost every institution in the country has purchased subscriptions - definitely not every, but almost every - have purchased subscriptions not only to the cloud-based software, but also for the fully-installed software as well. You've got Office 2019 which is a static version of Office, it does not change. When you install Office 2016, there are no feature updates. There's security updates and back-patches, but it stays static. Good software, but I want to talk to you about getting the better software. We've also got Office 365 which lives in the cloud and that's that https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0Z79CgZovVCZvQ8mI2UH-T?domain=office.com website, so we've cloud-based apps, whether you're on Chrome Edge, Firefox, etc., you're going to get a version and that definitely, for most people, is accessible too. But we have another version called Microsoft 365 apps. Now, Microsoft 365 apps is the subscription version and it marries the best of Office 365 and Office 2019 together in that it is a subscription service that is constantly updating with features, so you don't have to wait three or four years to get the next version of Office to get these features and for us working in the accessibility space, this is really important, because there's advances being made every month and features are being rolled out into these tools all the time. I want to make sure you understand that when I start demonstrating some of these things today, you may say, "Hey I'm not seeing that in my version of Office." That’s because you need to make sure you've got this version here installed on your machine. The standard licensing agreement is it's five free copies. For example, at Melbourne Uni, five free copies for teachers, staff and for everybody. That means you can put it on your PC and Mac across multiple devices, not just the one. That doesn't count if you're installing it on your phone or iPad, that's additional, but you've got five free copies of this software. What I want to do now is quickly take you in and make sure you understand where to access that and how to install it. Here I am at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0Z79CgZovVCZvQ8mI2UH-T?domain=office.com. I've signed in with my institution email address and password. Here, we see Install Office. I come in on my PC or Mac and come to the webpage and find the Install Office button and click on that and install the Microsoft 365 apps, click on that, follow the instructions and it will install that onto your machine. It will overwrite 2019, 2016 and as long as you stay connected to that institution, it will continue to update and that's definitely true because of some of the features, or important because of some of the features we're going to be looking at today. When we talked about the inclusive classroom last week, we talked about reading support, we focussed largely on Immersive Reader. Today, we're going to look at writing support. We have tools for maths support and speaking and listening as well. Let's jump in, let's look at writing support. I want to talk today about Dictate. Dictation or speech-to-text is nothing new, but where it's new for us is the fact it's built into Office both in the installed versions and also through the Cloud versions of the apps. Dictation or speech-to-text is allowing you to speak into your device and the written text will appear as you start to speak, then it will appear in the program you're using. It's a quick and easy way to create drafts, outlines, notes or get your thoughts into text. I'm not going to spend time telling you all the great things about how you could use Dictate. It's nothing new, but what I'm going to do instead is take you through and show you where it lives and some of the combinations you can use in your Microsoft experience. Dictate is available in Word Online, that is Word in the browser and it's also available in Word in the Windows 10 app. It's in other tools as well, we'll talk about that in a minute, but it's definitely in the Windows 10 app and also available online. That means if you've got a browser on your device, then you will be able to use Dictate, assuming that your device has a microphone and those kind of things as well. Let me give you a demo of that. I'm going to take you in here now. I'm going to show it to you in the online tool, but again, it is available for you in the Windows 10 app as well. But if I come in here and I was to click on Word, which I prepared one for you already, you can see that when I'm on the home tab here, Dictate lives just over here. I've already clicked the button, so I've got it sitting down here for me. As soon as you push on that button, it's going to bring up menus and other bits and pieces like that. I'm going to dictate a story in here. You can see when I hover over the button, I have my dictate settings and I also have a help button there as well. Let's click on that now. Last Christmas holidays I played with my puppy brandy. I sprayed water at her. I wrestled her and I played soccer with her. We sat down together, we said jokes to each other, we played and played until I had to go into the house and eat lunch. I said to her, "You are amazing!" There we go. You saw it had a little bit of time to catch up and you also saw that I had to punctuate. If I come down to settings, you can set it to auto-punctuation or you can punctuate yourself. I've also got the ability to set the different languages so it's not just in English, but it also recognises different accents in English. You can see UK, US, etc., and Australian is one of the preview languages. I have quite a good time with it. I think it's quite good, but that's where it lives. Once we come into the online version, we click the dictate button and we can play around in there. That's really simple, that's basically the way that it works. As I said to you before, the ability to punctuate or not punctuate really depends on, is punctuation part of the lesson? For example, if you were working with, maybe, first year students and I know when my wife was doing first year, she actually joined a program to help her write her assignments and those kinds of things. This would be perfect for that kind of thing. For those of us who have mastered punctuation, we don't necessarily need that, we turn it on and let it punctuate for us. It depends on how you want to use it and the cool thing is you've got that choice. When we punctuate, we can say these phrases. You can see here, “full stop”, “comma”, “question mark”, you can say ”period" instead of full stop. It lends itself to the American as well as the UK terms, but there's a lot in there for you to use and I'll make these slides available to you, but you can also do a quick search online in your favourite search engine for Microsoft Office Dictate punctuation and you'll find a list, no problem at all. The other thing, too, I'm not going to demonstrate to you in this because it's all pretty similar, except when we maybe get into Outlook. It's available in OneNote, OneNote Online and available on OneNote installed in your machine. It's available in Word installed in your machine and Word Online. It's also available in PowerPoint Online and installed, but when we get to Outlook it's only available in the installed version, in the Windows 10 version, but the rest of them — they have them in the online version as well as the installed version. That's Dictate and it works pretty much similar right across those different tools. We talked about Immersive Reader last week and I'm going to really quickly remind you in our last webinar, we saw Immersive Reader as a free tool that aids with independent reading and comprehension and it lives in so many different apps and platforms and it's helping readers with many different aspects of their learning. There are features with this tool that read text out loud, break it into syllables, provide options for visual layouts, such as spacing between lines and letters or colour themes. Writing can also take place when using Immersive Reader, so it allows students to consume text with visual preferences as well as hear their writing read out loud. It's really key. It's about hearing your own writing. There are people who have no problem writing and getting their thoughts down on paper, but then when they try to go back and access their own writing, they can have a bit of trouble there, so Immersive Reader can help us in the writing process there. Students who can't see their errors for a multitude of reasons, they can hear them and create revisions and edits with their own voice and hear it read back to them through the entire process. That's when we start to look at it combined with Dictate. Let's go in here. I want to show you, here's where a student has actually typed their sentences onto the page and then what happens is when they go into Immersive Reader - so, Immersive Reader lives in View - you can see there that the student's looking at that and already, Word is giving them some support in saying there's grammar issues as well as spelling issues. But still, students may not be able to access that visually for whatever reason. So, by being able to turn on Immersive Reader, the student can now have a listen to their errors. You listen with me. - “Last week my and me dad went to see a guy about fixing our gat he was really ekpensive about $300.00 so dad decided to tri another guy then we went to see him and he was cheper.” - Alright, you can hear the spelling, it's reading it phonetically, you can hear the spelling errors, however, at the same time, you can also hear the lack of punctuation. That was just a continuous sentence, so the student can actually hear that and hear it's not natural and, of course, you can slow that down and speed that up and all the other cool things about Immersive Reader. Feel free to go back and look at our other workshop webinar around using Immersive Reader, but that's really how it can be used as a writing support tool. The other thing is, when we combine Immersive Reader with Dictate, it means the student can now write with a degree of independence that maybe wasn't seen before. Instead of having an aid to support with the getting the text down on the page, now, instead, the student can do that themselves and instead of needing the aid to access the text and have it read back to them, the student can actually get that support as well. So, they can dictate in their own voice and then use Immersive Reader to assist them in the editing and revising process. I want to show you what that looks like. I'm going to just close that window there and come into here. Now, I'm going to push the dictate button over here. “Last week, me and my dad went to see a guy about fixing our fence. He was really expensive, about $300. So, Dad decided to try another guy, then we went to see him and he was cheaper.” Again, same sort of errors, but this time, the student’s not having those spelling areas because Dictate is doing a really good job there. Then, all the student has to do to listen, of course, is to hit the view tab and hit Immersive Reader and access that. The other thing I want to share with you - we're going to give this a bit of a go - I want to see what happens when I put in the auto-punctuation. Again, the student can get that extra support. Let's try it again. “Last week, me and my dad went to see a guy about fixing our fence. He was really expensive, about $300, so Dad decided to try another guy. Then, we went to see him and he was cheaper.” There we go. You can see there, it's actually listening for my pauses and throwing in punctuation, full stops, it's capitalising the beginning and the start, et cetera. You can see that turning dictate on… excuse me, turning punctuation on and off both have their times and both have their place and context, which is why we've made that possible for you. Now, what happens is when I come back and use Immersive Reader, I'm going to be able to see and hear my errors in a far better way and a far easier way. Now, the next thing I want to show you is Dictate in Outlook. Remembering, this is on the Windows 10 app for Outlook and I want you to think of the scenario of teachers sending emails to students, lecturers, tutors, sending emails to students. What happens a lot is a lot of information is sent to students through something like email and if the student is locked out of that mode of communication, then that means, obviously, the student is not going to be aware. Right now, you may be looking at my screen and it's quite small and hard to see. Maybe that is the challenge or maybe it's dyslexia and the inability to decode quickly enough. Whatever the challenge is, now we actually have the ability to click on Read Aloud inside the email app. We're not having to cut and paste it anywhere else or use third party apps over the top, but we can have our emails read to us. "Dear students, please make sure you get your assignments to me by 12 tomorrow afternoon. Thanks, Mr Waller." A bit weird writing myself an email, but there you go. What happens next is when I click "reply”, and I'm going to make this bigger for us so you guys can see that, now what happens, when I hit "reply”, what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to look for dictate. There it is, there. I'm going to dictate back to my teacher. "Hello, Mrs Smith,” new line, “Thanks very much for that email, I'll make sure I get my assignment to you. Warm regards, Troy." I could have punctuated there, of course, and I can turn that punctuation on and off, but there we go, that email is ready to go, click send. A lot of us take email for granted. We send emails and we think that everyone is going to get the email. Sometimes, there's a barrier there and being able to have these native to Office is really cool. Another thing I want to stress is remembering this is native to Office which has a 90% saturation in business world, let alone in university and your own life. The cool fact about this being native is it's going to make people's lives a lot easier. Let's talk a little bit about supporting students when we write. I work right across kindergarten right through to higher ed, but a lot of these factors in supportive writing are true, whether we're talking about little children or university students or even people in the business environment. First of all, fixing everything is not productive. There are things that just don't need to be fixed when we're writing. The communication is there and it's very clear. We want to make sure we encourage students to focus on only what's important and necessary. That's going to depend on the context. It's going to be a much higher standard writing an assignment or a report than it is just writing an email. Tackling everything at once can also be overwhelming, so again, we don't want to fix everything. But we do want to assist students to self-assess their writing so they can decide what's important and they can clearly see what it is that they need to work on. Let's talk about spell check. Spell check - it's ubiquitous, we use it all the time. The way it works, or used to work in older versions of Office - this may, in fact, be the version you're using now - is that when we right click inside the text, we get a dropdown of words like that and for some people, that's largely meaningless. What happens with spell check software is it typically shows a list of spelling suggestions when you right click or click on a flagged word. There are several different reasons why people with dyslexia, for example, have difficulty selecting a correctly spelt word from that list we see there. First, they're going to have difficulty perceiving the difference between similarly spelt words and determining which is correct. This can be due to visual attention challenges, challenge remembering the spelling rules, absence of visual memory, tracing the correctly spelt word, et cetera. It didn't help that Office and some other tools - their spelling menus have only shown suggestions themselves without any context to help choose that right word. Secondly, having too many choices slows decision making and causes what we call “decision fatigue”. This applies to everybody, but it's especially pertinent to students who have more difficulty with reading speed and accuracy and a slower processing time. And then, thirdly, unique spelling error patterns can cause words to look very different from the intended word. Historically, Office spell check optimised to show a smaller number of highly likely suggestions for the most common error patterns. Therefore, it often didn't have suggestions for unusual error patterns, right, so it wasn't always really helpful. Let me jump in and give you a demo. I'm going to take you into Word, and this is Word fully installed. I'm using dark mode here. I hope that doesn't stop you from seeing it so well. But here I am inside Word. This is installed on my Windows 10 machine. You can see that what's happening already is this has actually got the red squiggly lines and the blue dotted lines and the double blue lines, et cetera. That is a code that we need to make sure we understand. If you're working with someone that is using Office, make sure they understand what those lines and symbols mean, because it's not always a given that people do. Look what happens here, I've got the word over here, "principel”. When I right-click that word, “principel”, I want you to notice it's very different. I apologise if you can't see this clearly, but it's very different to what we used to have. Now, what happens is we've got synonyms underneath the words. We can see there, I've got principal, main, leader, superintendent, principle, code, source, rule, principled, honourable, righteous, upright. So, it's given me some context, but if I have trouble accessing that text, if I click the little arrow here, I get another dropdown and now what I've got is read aloud. From inside the text, it will do this for me. - “Principal”. Similar to, main, leader, superintendent. - If that's the one I’m looking for, great, I can keep going, though, it if it’s not. - “Principal”. Similar to, code, source, rule. - It's not only given me those words; it's actually given me context and synonyms and it's also given me read aloud. We've chosen to show synonyms as opposed to definitions or usage samples, because they're the most efficient at the level of reading. The fewest words are required to convey enough information to make a decision and, of course, less text will help students, for example, because visual crowding - that is more text - and impaired visual search could be less of an issue. We've also improved the spelling suggestions themselves. We leverage an online spell check - so, you need to be connected to the internet - and that engine provides a larger language model and a phonetic spelling component that gives us better suggestions. So, you may not have noticed this when you upgraded to your more modern versions of Word, but there's more under the hood, is what I'm trying to say. It does give you a better experience. The other thing I want to talk to you about is now what's been released which is called Microsoft Editor. That is, again, built into the Windows 10 app. Keep an eye out for when it's released into things like Mac and other tools and it's also online. We'll come back to that in a minute, the online version. What happens is, I'm over here on the home button. I will find it under Review, but even on the Home tab, you can see Editor lives over here. When I push on the Editor button, it opens up a dialogue box over here. It's telling me there are 11 suggestions. I've got multiple languages on this machine. English, US and English Australia. If you've just got Australia, you’re not going to see everything, it doesn’t have to be as overwhelming as it appears to be. As I said, we want to make sure we teach those kids those symbols. What’s happening now is this is actually pulling the suggestions outside of the text. Instead of being overwhelmed with drop-boxes and things like this — drop-downs, excuse me, all over happening here, we've actually moved away from the text so it's easy to use. Let's go into spelling, for example. Let’s jump into one of our spelling words here, it's found "principel" again. The first thing I want to draw your attention to is it's actually bringing the entire sentence out, not just my individual word. What's happened is it's actually drawn the entire sentence out and it's still highlighted. I've got the symbol letting me know it's misspelt, but Read Aloud is there, as well. When I click Read Aloud… - “I could throw it at my principel to scare her.” - I can hear my error, and then of course, I've still got my suggestions down the bottom with the synonyms. I've got Read Aloud so I can listen to those suggestions, still. - “Principal”. Similar to, main, leader, superintendent. - But what I've also got is Spell Out. It's a simple thing that's going to make such a difference to so many writers. Have a listen to this. - P, r, i, n, c, i, p, a, l. - We can slow that down, as well, but it's giving me the synonyms, the error in context, it's reading it to me and spelling that out to me. Let me talk to you about some of the other things in there, which is our refinements. You can see there's grammar as well, so when I click on that, it's going to bring those out. It's also going to have that read aloud and read the suggestions to me, et cetera. Down here in refinements - I'm going to jump into the Australian refinements and highlight the US ones as well - we come down here into refinements and it's actually looking at clarity, conciseness, formal language, inclusiveness, et cetera. You can see over here, for example, if I click on Conciseness, it's going to read the error to me, as well as giving me the suggestions. It will read it aloud and spell it out to me as well. That's all living inside there as Editor. When I click on the Settings button down here, I can go in there easily and choose what matters to me. I'm sorry, that's very small, but I've got categories of grammar and then numerous subcategories underneath. Then I've got clarity, conciseness, formality, et cetera. I can be turning those things on and off. You can see there, we've got inclusiveness, cultural bias, ethnic slurs, gender bias, et cetera. It will highlight that and make more writing more inclusive and I love that. I think that's really good. But let me talk you through this a little bit, because it's important some of the structural things we've done as well. It’s a categorised overview of writing enhancement opportunity. Instead of going linear through the text, spelling, grammar, conciseness, et cetera, we're actually doing it category-by-category and the refinements, as I said, are going to give optional advice on stylistic or situational matters. It's also going to count my errors for me. It's showing me, so, the student can look at that and say, okay, I did better this time, or I did worse, et cetera. So, those counters and check marks are going to track progress, but it also draws your attention to other elements of good writing. It gives you a dashboard for self-assessment. This is all about the student self-assessing their own writing, not needing an aide or a student support officer to help them. If you are working with students yourself who are challenged by text for some reason, you can use this dashboard to know what to work on. For example, if clarity keeps coming up or inclusiveness keeps coming up or certain spelling patterns, et cetera, you can look at that and use that to know what to work on. You can use it in a formative sense when working with students. Don't let them click and run through, make sure you get a look at that as well. The flexible work flow choices of this let's you spend more time purposefully scribing the document one category at a time, fixing things in a recommended sequence and focusing your attention on what really matters. Alright, that's Editor. Editor is inside Word, Editor is inside Outlook and Editor is inside PowerPoint as well, installed on your Windows 10 device. The next thing I want to take you through - here's where if you're using a Mac or another browser-based device, Editor still lives in the browser, as well. Let me take you and show you what that looks like. I'm going to close this one here and come into that same article. I'm living in the cloud. When I hover over this, that's me, and my Windows 10 machine is inside that document as well. Here I am inside the same document. I'm opening it in the online version as opposed to the desktop installed version. When I come in here, Editor is living over here on the Review tab. I need to click on Review and then click on Editor. Editor Online works differently. You can see here, it's giving me an Editor score. It calculates a score based on the number and type of suggestions to be reviewed. For the student, they're going to get a score that they can actually aim for higher levels or they can also know, hey, I haven't done so well this time around. So, it's gamified, in a sense. Now, for spelling, when I come over here and right click on a word, let's come back to "principel" here, when I click on the word, it's old style, so, not as rich as the early version I showed you, not as rich as the full Windows 10 version. You may want to… in terms of the support you need, you have to be down in the full version, that's fine, but if you don't need that support, you can be up here, but just to point that out that it's not quite the same. When I click on Spelling, it's going to take me to all those words one at a time and I can go through and the same with Grammar, if I have grammar errors as well. The other thing is, it's got those refinements again. Things like formal language, it's letting me know that I'm missing out on areas there of formal language, and look at this inclusiveness here. I like this one. It's picked up, instead of saying “policeman”, you should say "police officer", so it's really very good. It's got a basic similarity plagiarism checker, so it will check similarity for online sources. This is not as rich as Turnitin, but it is there. You've got readability and distinct words. I want to read this out, because, readability, I've got a score of 78. It says, “The readability score is based on the reading e-score. A score higher than 60 indicates short words and sentences. Most people find it easy to read that kind of writing.” Also, distinct words, “The number of distinct words that occur in the document, a higher number indicates a larger vocabulary.” It will also share with me the amount of time it would take to read on average and the amount of time it would take to speak out loud. If it's got enhancements, it will make those for you and suggest those for you as well. Really quite feature-rich. Different to the downloaded installed version on my machine, the cloud version has aspects of it that are great, the downloaded version has aspects that are great as well and you may want to use both at once, you may want to use one over the other. It's all up to you and that's the power of choice. That's Editor in the browser. Now, Windows users, the next thing I want to share with you is Word Prediction for Windows 10. When you go into your settings - settings is quite easy to find. You click on your Windows key or start button at the bottom of your screen and then you'll see the Settings button. You click on that and as you start to type "prediction”, you'll see “show text suggestions” as I type on the hardware keyboard. I'm going to open this on my machine, I'm going to drag it up so you guys can see that. I'm in dark mode, I find it easier on my eyes. When I scroll down here to Hardware keyboard. I started typing in “word prediction" or something like that, because it will intuitively find what you're looking for and then I click on “show text suggestions as I type". I'm going to turn that on. Look here, I can turn on “autocorrect misspelt words as I type”, as well. I'm going to open OneNote. When I start to type, it's actually given me a series of suggested words that I may actually be looking to type. No matter where I am on my Windows 10 machine, anywhere where I'm inputting text, it will actually start to make those suggestions to me. Just like on your mobile phone, so that's Word prediction. It does work on the Australian language pack now, which means you're not going to have American spellings suggested to you, you're going to get Australian spellings. Again, where did I do that? I clicked on my Settings. Inside Settings, I started to type "Show text suggestions”. I came to Hardware keyboard and switched it on. I'm going to switch it off, because it starts to be a little bit annoying for me, but that's how you do that. I realise that probably, somewhere, Jane is thinking, "Troy, you're talking too fast.” I'm going to try to slow down. I'm conscious of time. I'm going to show you Immersive Reader inside the Word for Windows 10 app. Last time, I focussed on Word Online because the online version and the installed version of Immersive Reader are actually quite different. One is really good for reading, so we looked at that last week, that was the online version, and one is really good for writing and that's the installed version. I'm going to show you what that looks like. If I come down here into my document, when I click on the View tab, there is an Immersive Reader button that lives over here. When I click on that, you can see, this is already looking very different to what we looked at last week. I can change the column width. I can make it very narrow, moderate, wide, et cetera. That can all be changed inside. I can change the page colour, I can also turn on line focus, 1, 3 and 5 lines. I can increase and decrease my text spacing and syllabify. What's missing is parts of speech and translation. Read Aloud is in there as well, but this time, with a different voice. The other thing that's missing is the picture dictionary, but have a listen to this… I don't know if you guys can hear that, but I can't hear that myself. Nevertheless, it's Read Aloud and it's an Australian voice… - No, we can't hear it either, Troy. - I must have a glitch. You can speed it up and slow it down, you can change the voice and the accents as well. Why I think this is better for writing is one simple fact - I can actually — which I can't do in the other version, I can type inside the document. When I am inside the other version of Immersive Reader, I have to come back outside of Immersive Reader, make my changes and then go back in. Whereas, now, I can actually type inside Immersive Reader. I can do the Read Aloud, have all the changes that I want, et cetera, but when I turn Immersive Reader off, it takes it back to a standard version of that document. In other words, this is going to make it much easier, because I'm going to get that support while I'm writing and I don't have to go backwards and forwards. You might say, hey, I like some of those other features for reading support. You can have the document open in Immersive Reader online and you can have the document open in Immersive Reader fully installed on your machine. You can have them both open at the same time, you can choose which one you want to choose, but my experience is this is much more conducive to writing down here on this version than it is in the other version. I hope that makes sense. Again, the Windows 10 version of Immersive Reader, very different, but also much, much better for writing, which is why we didn't look at it so much last week. I'm not going to jump in and take you through Teams today, but I want to make sure that you understand as long as those tools exist in the online, the browser version, then they will exist in Teams. That means that Dictate and Editor are going to be there inside Word. Dictate is going to be there inside OneNote as well. You can be using those tools, inside those tools, inside Teams. Next steps. We'll make these slides available to you, but we have a great website. I was talking with someone in the US today, we really need to change this now from “remote learning” to just "teaching and learning", because a lot of these tools are not just about remote learning, but there's a really good landing page, and the website is https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/tjSRCjZryVCQzNg3c7I4BF?domain=aka.ms. You can explore this, there's really good stuff. It may be a little bit K-to-12ish, but a lot of the references you can use will be great for you even in a vocation or tertiary environment. The other thing here is we've got the walkthrough, Empower students with inclusive writing tools, https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/oaw1Ck8vzVfzDGgrUJLYmb?domain=aka.ms, and that will take you through a lot of what I've shared today. It will walk you through these things. You can point and click and move through. Our Microsoft Learning Tools Availability. What is available in what tool and what platform? This is a good reference. If you're on an iPad, for example, you can know, does Dictate work? It doesn't seem to work. What about if I'm on a PC, well, then, Dictate is available in Word and PowerPoint, et cetera. This is a nice reference for you to go back and have a look. There's a 1-hour course that you can use also as a reference, Empower every student with an inclusive classroom. That's on that https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/myJTC91Zn7fEJ78MIob-Rv?domain=education.microsoft.com website. I'm not going to take you through these, because we did it last time, but there's a great list of links here for you to explore. The Disability Answers Desk, real people on the end of the call, our Microsoft Accessibility YouTube Channel to give your feedback. We're on Twitter and there's e-books, as well. Lastly, if you want to reach out to me, please do. I'm on Twitter, LinkedIn and also, Facebook. Just search for me, Troy Waller. You'll know it's me because of the little avatar. That's me, standing in front of a Microsoft logo. I'm going to stop and I'm going to throw back to Tasmania. - Brilliant, thanks, Troy. I didn't have to wind you up at all. You did perfect for timing. I don't know how our captioner went, but I'm sure she went really well. We've got quite a few questions and we may not get through them all. Somebody asked, can you demonstrate how you could dictate — how Dictate and Immersive Reader can be used within an assignment where there is a series of short answer questions to be answered? You've got the question, answer, question, answer. Can you use the Dictate and Immersive Reader? - I haven't set up any kind of demo, I'm sorry. If there was a series of questions, Immersive Reader doesn't know the difference between a paragraph and a question, so it will read that to you, but then you would need to come back out into the original document and then you would need to answer it. However, if you were doing that inside the installed version, you could actually have - let's turn on Immersive Reader again - if there were questions in there, I could be typing those questions and having them read aloud. I could also be using Dictate in there as well. So, my advice for what the person is asking for there is to be using the Windows 10 app of Word to be doing that. - Brilliant. With the Read Aloud, can you actually use a voice command to get that to work, or it needs to be a… - I don't know the answer to that. What I would suggest that you do, if you want to post a question... let me take you back and show you that link there, you can post that question on Twitter at @MSFTEnable and they will be able to answer it for you. Also, remember the Disability Answers Desk, which is 9am to 9pm, Monday to Friday, 10am to 6pm, Saturday and Sunday, it's a 1800 number and they will be able to answer any of your questions that you have about this, and that's a free service. - Brilliant. You put up the screen before about what you can use and where, but there is a question, does Dictate work in Microsoft iPad apps? - As far as I know, it's not actually embedded in those tools, however, I would imagine that the embedded iPad dictate tools would work inside those apps. I'm not 100% sure, but that's something you could definitely check out. Again, remembering that accessibility support, that Disability Answers Desk, even though you're not on a Windows device, you're trying to use an Office tool and they will be able to help you cross-platform. - That's great. Does the editor point out if you're using an active or passive voice? - I think I've closed it down… let's go back in to look at some of those settings. There's quite a lot in there. Let me just turn this off. If we come down to Refinements here and go to the Settings… down here, there's check boxes, you can tick them on and off. If you scroll down here, I would imagine there would be something about passive and active voice. There it is there. Passive voice, you want to turn that on and off. Passive voice with an unknown actor. Yes, it does. - Great, excellent. You can see all applications that use MS Dictate on the so-called learning tools periodic table live update link… I thought I saw something different to that, sorry. If you download MS 365, can you keep the current Office suite on your computer? - That's more a technical question, but it's a good question. Those sorts of questions are best answered... I'm going to take you into a browser here. This is one of the best-kept secrets at Microsoft. It's https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/_a15ClxwAVHNW4LAUYtD8S?domain=support.office.com, forward slash the tool you're wanting to use. If you don't know, you can just go into https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/_a15ClxwAVHNW4LAUYtD8S?domain=support.office.com. You can type questions in here and there will be a bot that will answer questions, or you can search by tool. If you scroll down to the bottom, you can actually get support. There's a "Contact us" and you can start to have text communication. There's also a community in there as well. So, https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/_a15ClxwAVHNW4LAUYtD8S?domain=support.office.com. - Can the grammar errors be fixed using dictation? - Not that I know of. - The example that you did where you said, “Me and me dad,” came up as “Made and my dad,” it didn’t actually fix that. When you put it on Read Aloud, you would pick up that mistake as a student. - The Aussie accent is still a preview language. It’s getting better as that gets released. As I said, just recently, they re-released the Australian accent for Immersive Reader which sounds really good. Dictate will come, we'll get there. - I haven’t read this one, it’s quite a long one… are settings such as keyboard or cursor and pointer for users or on the computer, this is for a student using an account on a class computer, do they need to be on the same computer each time or will the same settings travel with them on machines? - Good one. When you set up a Windows device, you can actually get it to save your settings so that when you sign into the next Windows device, it will bring those settings across. Now, what that means in terms of individual profiles, like, I know a lot of institutions will allow you to come and sign into a device and it will bring your profile with you. That's something you'll need to speak to the techies at your institution and ask them about making sure the settings are ported across as well, not just your files. But the standard operating system of Windows 10 means if I've got multiple machines, when I sign into one, when I sign into the next one, it will bring the settings across as long as I switch that on. - Brilliant. Other questions for Mac users, can you confirm what's available for Mac and what's not? - I'm not a Mac user, but they're great machines for sure. I would bring you back to this one here. So, the Microsoft learning tools availability slide and you can flow through and find what's available for Mac. But remembering, when we see something like "web", as long as you've got a browser, it doesn't matter what device you’re on. - Excellent. There are a few more questions, but I think they're more of the fixing up of the back-end questions. Sorry if I've missed any important ones. Sometimes, they all jump over themselves when people are pressing the up button, et cetera. I may have missed something. We'll go through and if there is anything pertinent Troy can answer, then we'll put that up on the website. So, thank you so much, Troy, for your presentation today. It's kind of… I need to always leave an hour in my diary after this so I can go and play. It's quite frustrating that I'm unable to play. I definitely want to make that available. This is our last webinar we've got planned for a little while. We will have a few more coming up. Keep up on our website. I'm a bit distracted, I've got people at the door. The usual thing of working from home! It's quite distracting, isn't it? I hope your pies haven't gone cold, Troy? - You heard the ding; they've been and gone. - Eaten already by the kids! Thank you, everybody, for joining us today. Thank you so much, Troy, for presenting to us and giving time so freely and answering the questions that people have. It's fantastic to see how far Microsoft has gone. One of the things we are working on with Microsoft is to have someone present to us on Teams and the accessibility within Teams. We're still in negotiations with Microsoft and hopefully, that will get announced soon. All the very best, Troy, and hopefully, we'll see you before the year's out with another presentation. - Sounds good. Thanks for having me. - Thank you, bye.