Assistive Technology Mentoring Centre

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Academic support and mentoring

Learning with assistive technology

Support and enhance your learning by booking an appointment to receive advice and training from the Assistive Technology Mentoring Centre.

Improve your learning experience

During one-on-one appointments, student mentors from the Assistive Technology Mentoring Centre will discuss learning strategies and tools you can use to help you improve your tech skills and academic performance.

Book an appointment

How can assistive technology help you?

Learn how to use:

Tools to improve your notetaking and writing skills
Text-to-speech tools for better reading strategies
Speech-to-text tools to support you in your writing tasks
Mind mapping tools to help you organize essays and projects
Apps for time management and scheduling
Tools to make PDFs more accessible
AI tools tailored to your individual needs

Workshops

Our interactive online workshops, which we host in collaboration with the Library, explore assistive technologies and strategies to help you in reading, writing, and note-taking. Whether you’re looking to stay organized, improve your reading comprehension, or study more efficiently, these workshops are for you.

During the workshop, we’ll cover popular assistive technologies, including:

Read&Write, a literacy support tool featuring text-to-speech and designed to improve a user’s reading, writing, and comprehension,
Goodnotes, a powerful app for digital handwriting, marking up PDFs, and audio transcription,
OneNote, a flexible note-taking app for organizing, tagging and collaborating on notes across devices,
Otter.ai, an AI-powered transcription tool that captures lectures, meetings, and conversations in real time.

We’ll also review practical ways to improve your note-taking and boost your productivity and retention to help you study smarter, not harder.

Please note that workshops are not offered during the spring/summer term.