Pathway: Diverse Learners

The free features of the Read&Write toolbar enable text-to-speech and a single-word language translator in Google Docs, and text-to-speech on websites with selectable text.

This badge will provide educators with strategies, extensions, and add-ons that can be used to accommodate the diverse needs of all the students in their classes.

There are many free Chrome extensions that offer a wide variety of support for students with visual impairment, such as dyslexia, color blindness, and more right in their Chrome browser. Help your students become more independent in all their academic endeavors with these tools.

Captions in Google applications are an important tool to provide assistance to students with trouble hearing. Captions provide audio to text abilities that allow students to read what is being said in a video or live session. Google Meet, Google Slides, and YouTube all have the ability to provide captions to enhance student learning.

There are many free Chrome extensions that offer a wide variety of support for students who are easily distracted. These tools are quickly and easily found in their browsers and provide ways to keep them on task. Help your students become more focused with one or more of these extensions!

There are many free Chrome extensions that offer a wide variety of literacy support for students right in their Chrome browser. Help your students become more independent readers and writers with these tools.

The Texthelp company has established a Level 1 and Level 2 certification for Read&Write users to show their expertise with the Read&Write tool (Windows, Mac, or Chrome) and how to implement it in the classroom to support students.  To complete the Level 1 certification you must pass an online assessment that takes approximately 90 minutes.

Mote is a Chrome extension that allows teachers to leave audio comments on the majority of Google applications. Students are able to then listen to the audio comment the same as reading a written one by teachers.

Mote Certified Educator is an achievement to recognize educators who use Mote to advance student learning. Mote is a tool that allows educators to create voice comments through a Google Chrome extension. Mote integrates seamlessly with Google tools such as; Forms, Slides, Docs, and GMail. Mote can greatly improve the reach of teacher-to-student feedback, student-to-student feedback, and accessibility to instructions and digital learning tasks. Prior to this quest, make sure you have completed the Mote Magic badge to fully grasp this tool's capabilities! Earning the Mote Certified Educator certification will not only get you one step closer to the highest level of Mote certification, Mote Ambassador, it will also give you access to Mote's exclusive webinars, competitions, and community activities!