Windows 10: Using the Learning tools on Microsoft Edge to improve your Reading experience

WinClub · Oct 17, 2018

Microsoft Edge has come a long way, and it has evolved in many ways. One of the impressive feature that Edge offer is a feature to improve your reading experience. It is offered as Learning Tools on Microsoft Edge. This [...]

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Brink · Oct 17, 2018

Learning Tools for OneNote improves learning for all

“Students spend so much energy decoding that they can’t focus on content. This tool will help making learning more efficient.”
—Joel Reese, educator at Sammamish High School

“If my imagination designed technology, this would be in my wildest dream.”
—Haley Heck, educator at Sammamish High School

Today’s classrooms include students with a wide range of abilities. Educators are expected to adapt content to meet the needs of each of their students, including students with learning differences. While technology can be an enabler to learning, for some, technology is a challenge. Many educators lose valuable instructional time discovering, justifying, deploying and maintaining assistive technology for students with learning differences. To help address these challenges, we’re introducing Learning Tools for OneNote. A Microsoft hackathon winner, Learning Tools for OneNote is a toolbar add-in for OneNote 2013 and 2016, which improves reading and writing experiences for all students—including for students with learning differences like dyslexia.

Download the Learning Tools for OneNote public preview version today at onenote.com/learningtools.

We designed reading and writing solutions that leverage what works for people with learning differences and for other users based upon research. We are delivering a mainstream tool that benefits all students; it is a great example of inclusive design because it builds on solutions for people with learning differences but it works for everyone and is non-stigmatizing. This matters for students and educators for a few key reasons:

Our ability to read impacts our ability to learn and our lifelong earning potential.

OneNote is growing, and educators are advocating for OneNote because it helps students get organized and gain their independence.

Most importantly, Microsoft can improve learning outcomes through enhanced reading and writing tools.

Let’s take a look at what is possible with this simple but powerful tool.

The OneNote Learning Tools toolbar add-in.

The OneNote Learning Tools Immersive Reader uses simultaneous highlighting and voicing text, allowing users to improve focus and reading speed.
All of the features seen in the OneNote Learning Tools have research-based benefits:

[table][tr][td]Feature[/td] [td]Proven benefit[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Enhanced dictation[/td] [td]Improves authoring text.[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Focus mode[/td] [td]Sustains attention and improves reading speed.[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Immersive reading[/td] [td]Improves comprehension and sustains attention.[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Font spacing and short lines[/td] [td]Improves reading speed by addressing “visual crowding.”[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Parts of speech[/td] [td]Supports instruction and improves writing quality.[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Syllabification[/td] [td]Improves word recognition.[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Comprehension mode[/td] [td]Improves comprehension by an average of 10 percent.[/td] [/tr] [/table]

We’ve also created a OneNote Learning Tools FAQ to help get you up and running with this new tool.

This is just the beginning of our work in creating a more inclusive classroom with our tools. The challenges that come with language and literacy barriers are vast and varied, but technology can help students overcome these obstacles and become more independent in class. Just one example is the ability to quickly capture content from a worksheet, handout or other text using Office Lens to take a picture. After snapping the photo, you can send the content directly to OneNote. Office Lens recognizes the text via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and also provides ALT text to the OneNote page. The Learning Tools Immersive Reader can be used on the captured photo to quickly read back the text using the text-to-voice technology, and the other Parts of Speech features can be used on the text from the photo.

Using Office Lens to send captured content directly to OneNote and use with the Learning Tools.

Aligned with the Microsoft mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, we are investing in bringing the OneNote Learning Tools and other accessibility features not just to OneNote but across Windows and Office 365.

You can learn more about this in the new Accessibility Guide for Educators.
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Source: Learning Tools for OneNote improves learning for all - Office Blogs

Brink · Oct 17, 2018

Improvements for Enterprises in Microsoft Edge on the Windows 10 CU

Last month, we began rolling out the Windows 10 Creators Update (Windows 10 version 1703) to over 400 million customers around the world. The Creators Update upgrades Microsoft Edge to EdgeHTML 15, including a number of performance, security, and compatibility improvements.

In this post, we’ll share a bit more detail on how the Windows 10 Creators Update makes Microsoft Edge better than ever for Enterprise customers and IT Professionals.

Management Improvements

In Windows 10 version 1703, we’ve added new policies that support key management scenarios, enabled by Mobile Device Management (MDM), Microsoft Intune, and Group Policy. In particular, we’ve focused on missing policies that were requested in your feedback.

You can find the full list of new policies for Microsoft Edge in the Available Policies topic on TechNet. Some of the highlights include:

Compatibility

We’ve often discussed compatibility for legacy sites, and how Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 can work better together to provide a modern experience, while still providing a compatible fallback for legacy experiences. Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer provide the ability to seamlessly switch from one to the other, based on the site you’re loading, making sure your users have the best experience possible. To reinforce this approach, we’ve added these policies for better app compatibility:

Keep favorites in sync between Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge

One of our most common requests is for a policy to Keep favorites in sync between Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. New in the Windows 10 version 1703, this policy setting synchronizes user favorites between the two browsers in real-time. That means that any changes you make in the Internet Explorer Favorites folder structure is also made in the Microsoft Edge Favorites database, and vice versa. Combined with the Enterprise Mode Site List, your users should never need to remember which browser to use to open a site – it should all be done automatically.

Allow Adobe Flash

Some customers have shared concerns about how to manage Adobe Flash content. Windows 10 version 1703 adds the Allow Adobe Flash policy setting to completely turn off, or disable, Adobe Flash content from running in your organization.

Adobe Flash Click-to-Run

We’re encouraging the transition to HTML5 alternatives by providing additional user control over when Flash content loads. We’ve made Microsoft Edge default to only allow Adobe Flash content to run when someone explicitly clicks on it. With this policy, you can choose to override this experience and allow Adobe Flash content to simply run,.

Customizing the experience

We’ve also added a number of policy settings that help you customize user experiences and functionality as per your enterprise policy:

Prevent the First Run webpage from opening on Microsoft Edge

This setting disables the “First Run” experience in Microsoft Edge. Your users will instead navigate straight to their default start page.

Disable lockdown of Start pages

We’ve previously provided the ability to lock down your Start pages by using the policy setting, Configure Start pages. Since then, we’ve heard feedback from a number of customers who simply wanted a configuration option, with no lock down. In Windows 10 version 1703, we’ve added an additional policy setting that you can set on top of the existing one to configure Start pages without locking them down. You can then decide whether to modify, add, or delete these Start pages.

Search

We have introduced three new policies to help you configure search providers:

Configure additional search engines: Lets you add additional search engine providers for your employees to choose from.

Set default search engine: Lets you decide the default search engine for your employees.

Allow search engine customization: Lets you decide whether to lock down your search engine configuration so your employees can’t change it.

Allow Address bar drop-down list suggestions

This policy setting lets you decide whether the Address bar drop-down functionality is available in Microsoft Edge. If you disable this setting, your employees won’t get suggested search results when typing in the Microsoft Edge suggestions list.

Allow clearing browsing data on exit

If you don’t want an employee’s browsing data to persist on the machine at the end of a browsing session, you can use this policy setting to automatically clear all browsing data when Microsoft Edge closes.

Productivity

With the Windows 10 Creators Update, we’ve introduced a number of new features and ongoing improvements to browser fundamentals, to improve the overall experience of the browser for all of your users.

Tab management

Microsoft Edge now lets your users set tabs aside for later, sweeping them aside and organizing them neatly in a special section for easy access at a later time. We’ve also made it easier to glance at the content of all open tabs by simply clicking the “show tab previews” icon, which will expand the tab bar to show a preview of each open tab.

Fundamentals

Made for the modern web, with available support for the legacy web

Microsoft Edge stays up-to-date. with support for the latest web standards that are driving today’s websites and web apps, giving you a browser that “just works” with modern sites. The Edge Developer Center also provides guidance and tools to help developers update their sites to use modern standards.

We understand that migrating your sites to modern web standards can be a long-term process. Using Enterprise Mode with Internet Explorer for backward compatibility can help you upgrade more easily. We’re also making it easier for you to manage your Enterprise Mode site lists. If your site list is of a relatively small size, using the Enterprise Mode Site List Manager is the easiest way to manage your Enterprise Mode Site List. If your if your site list is relatively large and requires multiple users to work on it, we recommend using the Enterprise Mode Site List Portal.

More efficient, more responsive and more secure

In a recent blog post, we talked in detail about the work done to make Microsoft Edge more efficient, responsive, and secure in the Windows 10 Creators Update. Some of the highlights are:

We’ve improved battery efficiency, so when your users are mobile with their laptops or Surface devices, they will get more out of their battery, improving productivity on the go.

Microsoft Edge is now faster and more responsive, even when the page may be busy or hung, by prioritizing the user’s input.

We’ve introduced Arbitrary Code Guard and Code Integrity Guard to help protect users from exploits that aim to load malicious code into memory, and dramatically improved the Microsoft Edge sandbox, cutting the attack surface available by up to 90% in some areas.

Conclusion

The Windows 10 Creators Update (version 1703) makes life easier for you as an Enterprise administrator or IT professional, introducing a number of new policies and improvements to reduce the overhead of supporting both Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11. It also improves the end-user experience considerably, with new features and improved fundamentals for a more productive and enjoyable experience on the web.

If you’re on a Windows 10 device, you can simply check for updates to try the Windows 10 Creators Update today – see the instructions here for more details.

Puneet Arora, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Edge
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Source: Improvements for Enterprises in Microsoft Edge on the Windows 10 Creators Update - Microsoft Edge Dev Blog

Joy Kemprai · Oct 17, 2018

Reading list not working in Microsoft Edge.

Hi Melvin,

This issue might have occurred if you have not signed in with your Microsoft Account. I suggest you to sign out and sign in with your Microsoft Account and check.

Also check if you have tried this.

In Microsoft Edge, just select Add to favorites or reading list  >
Reading list > Add. When you’re ready to read, select
Hub  > Reading list .

Reply to us if reading list is working or not. We are happy to help!

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