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System Announcements

• Study Buddi Online (Monday, 13 July 2020)
  

  

• ReadSpeaker and TextAid - Text to Speech and Speech to Text Technology in MySCU Blackboard (Friday, 10 July 2020)
  

  SCU is pleased to provide two key accessibility and productivity tools - ReadSpeaker and TextAid are available to all Southern Cross University students and staff. 

  ReadSpeaker is a 'Text to Speech' tool available to all SCU students and staff through MySCU Blackboard. ReadSpeaker looks likein the lower left-hand corner of your screen when in MySCU Blackboard.

  • •  Click on the widget and it will expand    and automatically start reading the web page for you in Australian English!
    •  Select text on the page, and it produces a button next to your selection.  Click this to have your highlighted text read aloud.

  Text on the screen is read aloud with synchronised text highlighting and customisable colour highlighting, modifiable speed and volume, as well as the ability to download an mp3 file for offline listening.

  
  

  TextAid is a reading, writing and studying tool integrated into every Blackboard site.

  You will find it in the Blackboard Tools area of every one of your learning sites.  Look for  

  TextAid features include:

  • • Spell check and word prediction.
    • A web lookup tool for a selected word or text in Wikipedia or by Google web search. 
    • A speaking calculator
    • A document reader that lets you view and listen to PowerPoint files, pdf documents, word documents and epubs. 
    • A personal library where you can save documents and access them from any device -- No more USB's!! 
    • OCR for text in scanned images - translates to text, that can then be read back to you.
    • Web Reader - a tool that enables the ReadSpeaker widget on any website 

   Both ReadSpeaker and TextAid are 100% web-based and can be accessed on any device with an internet connection.   All you need to do is log into mySCU Blackboard first!

• Important information about Internet Explorer (Friday, 27 March 2020)
  

  

  Important information about Internet Explorer

  Please note that due to development having ceased on Internet Explorer, this is no longer a supported browser while using the Blackboard learning environment. If you are currently using Internet Explorer versions 9, 10, or 11, please switch to an alternate browser in order to gain the best possible experience while using your Blackboard account.

  Supported browsers include:

  • Google Chrome (recommended)
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Safari