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Hi! I am looking for help. My son has been using these platform for two years with no hiccups until today. He is halfway through an AR book for school and the book will no longer load. It just sits on a screen that says "loading book content". He went to the IT team at school and they had no idea what the problem was. Any thoughts or problem solving help?! Thanks!
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Joseph LaFauci replied to Fabien Siffrin's topic in Bookshare Help
I am experiencing the same issue with a Blaze EZ. If I find the solution I will post it here. -
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Hi! I am a teacher of students with visual impairments and understand the Chafee qualifying print disability info.... but I am wondering if there is any particular language that needs to be included the IEP to justify the student's use of Bookshare. We have used language before such as "the IEP team has determined that this student meets the definition of print disable and requires access to large print/ digital texts/ etc" with reference back to my learning media assessments. Is this how we document it? Do we need to document in the IEP? Just wanting to make sure I am doing things correctly. Thanks!
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Students are liking and using the margin adjustments, but I have several students who could benefit from extra white space between lines. Any chance of adding option to adjust spacing between lines of text as well?
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I have downloaded a book for a student using the ePub format. Everything is working well expect for when we use the text to speech setting. When it reads contractions like i’d, that’s and it’s, it says something like “i” circumspect “d”. This is very distracting to my student. I was wondering if anyone could give me some suggestions to help fix this.
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I just did this and it took me a bit to figure it out, as well! When you are logged in, go to Members, click on the last name of the member, select "Assigned Books" and remove individual books by selecting the trash can icon beside "Action".
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I agree this would be great to have.
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Is there a way to take a book off of a student's assigned booklist? I know how to take a book out of a reading list but I can't seem to find a way to unassign a book.
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Dealing with images if you are blind
Melanie Upchurch replied to Debee Norling's topic in Bookshare Help
Did this article get completed? I would be interested in this as well. -
Individual and organizational memberships
Christina Ortiz replied to Katrina's topic in Bookshare Help
I have the same question. Has anyone answered? -
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Individual and Organization Memberships
Kathy Munson replied to Charley Chouanard Harguth's topic in Bookshare Help
I'm totally new to Bookshare, but have 5th grade students who would benefit. I have an individual account, but my district has an account too. Can I get my students signed up without the organization, or do I need to go through the organization? The page that talks about signing up a student reads like I have to have an organization account. Could I just allow the parents to create an account and let the student and parent choose books? Thanks for your help! -
Hi, I notice some books are listed more than once, even though they have the same ISBN. Why is that? https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/2308443 https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/2981018 Thanks
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How can I see if a book has an audio component? I cannot find any audiobooks available for a student. I need help!!!
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Is there a restriction on staff, as far as Bookshare is concerned, that can be added as sponsors? For example, the school librarian - would she/he be someone that could be added, or would it need to be someone with special education access?
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All Settings Returning to Default
Margaret Coish replied to Jeanette Quinn's topic in Bookshare Help
I am also having the same issue. -
Hi! I downloaded Oceanography 978-0-495-11286-0 for a student. Then I converted it to Adobe. The images/photos on the pages in the textbook aren't complete; it seems like they need more space, so when I drag the page window out, the image doesn't grow with it.
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Allowing students to request books from teacher/advisor/etc (account holder)
Mike Palmieri replied to Mike Palmieri's topic in Feature Suggestions
Hi Jennifer - nothing from the discussion posting, but I did email the same question in and got a response from Bookshare. They said that the engineering team already had this type of feature on their radar and to-do list, and they hope to see it implemented "within the year" (academic? next 365 days? that wasn't as clear). -
Allowing students to request books from teacher/advisor/etc (account holder)
Jennifer West replied to Mike Palmieri's topic in Feature Suggestions
Mike, Was there every a response to this request? I would love to be able to offer these to my research candidates at the university. -
I work at a high school, and one of our visually impaired students is having issues downloading/opening an audio file. We got it downloaded (the book Boy 21), but when we try to open it, it just cycles around back to the download screen. What are we doing wrong?
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I am new to managing Bookshare for my district. I would like to be able to do larger group training for students, parents and teachers. Is there a way for me to use the reading tools from my own account? Up to this point I have logged in with each student to do some training. That doesn't make sense. Thanks, for any help. Kathryn Coleman Vashon Island School District
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Hi, I manage the Bookshare account for my district and can let you know how we are set up. We have one Organizational account that I created. (I am an assistive technology specialist that supports all of our buildings. Prior to this role, I was a special education teacher.) Then, I added "sponsors", which are other staff members that have the ability to add students. My goal is to train the sponsors to be able to independently add students that qualify and assign texts to them. (I still provide a lot of help.) Our students access the books mostly on Chromebooks and use the text-to-speech feature of the Read&Write extension since it offers more voice options. I hope this helps a bit! Feel free to take a look at my Bookshare page on our website: https://sites.google.com/adams12.org/sss-at/bookshare Michelle Thomas, Assistive Technology Specialist michelle.thomas@adams12.org
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Allowing students to request books from teacher/advisor/etc (account holder)
Mike Palmieri posted a topic in Feature Suggestions
This may be more applicable to higher-ed than k-12, but I'd like to allow students to submit requests for adding books to their reading lists, and then receive a notice of that - which I could accept or deny through the email/logging in to the site. As it is now, my college students have to email me with book requests, then I log in to search for the books, and add them to their lists. Since I'm not an instructor (I work in the disability resource center), I don't keep track of just one or two classes, but all students for all classes (theoretically). A quick and easy Yes/No approval option where the student can look for their own books would be super helpful and time-saving. -
Hello! So confused on how to get started here... How can I get my students assigned text books for school? I'm a special ed teacher.
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Every time my students reopen the book they're reading, they have to rechange all of the settings. We are using Chromebooks. We would just deal with it but the default voice is an Arabic accent and the speed is too fast, so they can't even begin to understand what they're hearing.
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Individual and Organization Memberships
Jill Pfluke replied to Charley Chouanard Harguth's topic in Bookshare Help
Where can I find the print copy of the Individual Membership form?
