As a university of Suffolk Student you will have a Microsoft Office 365 account, you can use your student login details to access the account and featured software. For further information about accessing and using your Office 365 account click this link.
Windows narrative is a built-in Screen Reader and text-to-speech tool that allows you to hear the text as it appears on the screen.
This tools applies a colour screen for ease of vision. Available on Windows 10 or 11.
Guide: Use colour filters in Windows
Dark Mode changes the appearance of OneNote interface elements from light to dark, which can improve readability in low light environments, increase the legibility of the user interface as well as your notes, and provide better contrast.
Dark Mode doesn’t alter the properties of your page content in any way. It merely adjusts the way in which that content is displayed in your current mode.
In Dark Mode, the various text colors, table cell backgrounds, ink strokes, and text highlighters on your pages are displayed with the same fidelity and contrast as they would appear in Light Mode.
Any content you create in OneNote while in Dark Mode will be equally as legible to other notebook co-authors, who may be viewing the same pages in Light Mode.
Guide: Turn dark mode on or off
Available on desktop and mobile app, Teams can detect what is said in a meeting and present real-time caption. And, if you've turned on the new meeting experience, your captions will include speaker attribution—so you will see not only what is being said, but who is saying it.
Guide: Using live captions in MS Team meetings
Available in MS Office 365 and Word. Support reading and writing by using Immersive Reader to customize how word documents appear while you read and edit. Immersive Reader provides options for a comfortable and easy to process experience by allowing you to listen to the text read aloud or adjust how text appears by modifying spacing, colour and more.
Guide: Use Immersive Reader in Word
OneNote is a digital notebook where you can:
Type notes, write notes, convert handwritten notes to text or record audio notes
Create a transcript of audio recordings
Mix media
Move notes around and organise them
Translate between languages
OneNote is available on all devices
OneNote is useful for anyone looking for flexibility in notetaking, and to organise notes in a clear and coherent way and can be accessed by UOS staff and students through Microsoft Office 365.
Editor is built into MS word and can be accessed through the online or desktop version, although the online version has a few more functions compared to the desktop. It’s an AI function that helps to support your grammar, spelling, punctuation amongst other features of writing.
Guide: MS Editor checks grammar and more in documents, mail and the web
Dictate is a speech-to-text tool, available in both the desktop and online versions of Word. Once selected, it will type the words as you talk.
Learning how to use keyboard shortcuts can help you save time but using shortcuts which mean your hands do not need to leave the keyboard.
Check out this free guide here.