The majority of your students take the formative/summative assessment on paper, but your Oral Admin students need it in an online format in order to utilize R&W.

Concerned about sharing a PDF Assessment with students?

Moodle Page

Recommended alternative option for sharing a PDF formatted quiz or test.

To share contents of a Google file (PDF), but not have to worry about the users' ability to Add to Drive, share with others, or length of time to access, you can copy/paste the document contents into a Moodle Page; this will allow utilization of the R&W tool alongside the normal Moodle functions (hide or make page visible, restrict access to an Oral Admin Group, prevent access past a certain date, etc.)

Testing and Oral Accommodations.mp4

The video below showcases how Read & Write works on:

PDFs

R&W on a Lumin PDF.webm

Reading text from a PDF

  1. Upload the PDF to Google Drive (because the file must be in an online format in order to use the online tool R&W.)

  2. Note: the PDF cannot be read aloud when shown in the preview window of Drive. You must select "Open With" and select "Lumin PDF"

    • This tool already exists in student's "Open With" drop down in Drive

  3. Click on the Read&Write extension icon (purple puzzle piece) to display the R&W toolbar

  4. Use the mouse/touchpad to highlight the desired text to be read aloud

  5. Click the play button

  6. Click the pause or stop buttons as needed

Repeat steps #4-6 for each additional passage of text, unless "Continuous Reading" setting is enabled for it to keep reading past the initial selected text.

When complete, click on the Read&Write extension icon (purple puzzle piece) to remove the toolbar

Click the buttons below to view how R&W functions on various teaching resources used alongside your Moodle page.

Other tools may meet the unique needs of our learners. If this tool does not meet your students' needs, you may view the list of approved apps, visit with your special education staff, or request another specific app through Help Desk.