Assistive Technology Hub

What is Assistive Technology?

Assistive Technology is software, equipment and apps which can help you with your studies to make learning more accessible.

You can use Assistive Technology to help you with reading a text, note-taking, drafting an essay, time management, stress management and much more!

Assistive Technology can help everyone.

Drop-Ins

Join our Assistive Technology drop-in sessions

Would you like to learn something new? Do you have any questions about Assistive Technology? If so, we will be available for Teams drop-ins on Mondays and Fridays at 9:30.

These weekly sessions are available to all students. Please come along if you have any questions about assistive technology and how it can help you during your course. We are here to help!

*Please make sure to use your Edinburgh College email address when booking your session.

Drop-in sessions booking page:

25/26 Assistive Technology Drop-ins and Workshops (office365.com)

Workshops

We provide training and advice to all students on built-in assistive features in Windows and Mac, college software and free apps. Join us on Wednesdays at 2 pm to find out how to make the most out of technology to support your learning.

*Please make sure to use your Edinburgh College email address when booking your session.

Workshops booking page:

25/26 Assistive Technology Workshops (office365.com)

Staff info:

If you would like to book any of the following workshops for your group, please feel free to contact Anna directly to arrange a session at anna.dawidowicz@edinburghcollege.ac.uk

Workshop 1

Microsoft 365

We will show you how to find and use those amazing built-in features you all have access to.

Learning Tools in Word and Outlook  

Screen reader in Microsoft Edge Browser 

Organisational features in OneNote 

Speech recognition for Windows

Workshop 2

College Site Licenses

Come along to Workshop 2 to explore Read & Write 12 and Inspiration 9.
Here are just some of the features you will learn:

Word prediction

Text reader

Easily confused words: Homonyms and homophones

Picture dictionary

Text to mp3

Screen masking options

Ideas, thoughts, and complex information organiser

Creating links between ideas

Mind mapping

Diagrams

Workshop 3

Chrome and Edge

During this workshop, we will show you all the following and more:

Chrome	Edge
Colour overlay	Immersive reader
Ruler	Read aloud
Alternative fonts	Reading preferences
Dark mode	Text preferences

DSA Students

Once you receive your needs assessment, we will contact you to book an appointment for the training session on the software recommended by your Assessor.

We will also provide regular review sessions to see how you are getting on with the software and how it can assist you with your further studies.

Please follow the hyperlinks below if you want to get ahead on some of your recommended software: