Digital Reading Tutorial - BrightSpace

Summary

This tutorial provides a detailed guide on enhancing your digital reading experience using MindTap from Cengage. It covers navigating digital reading chapters, using features like text highlighting, adding notes, searching for specific content, and utilizing the read speaker for auditory learning. The tutorial emphasizes the use of various tools such as text-to-speech customization, dictionary lookup, and bookmarks to improve learning efficiency. Additionally, it highlights the importance of contacting classroom support for any technical issues encountered.

Highlights

• Navigate through digital reading materials using arrows or chapter contents to jump sections. 🚀
• Enhance study efficiency by highlighting text, adding notes, and using the dictionary. 📝
• Listen to text with the read speaker feature to improve pronunciation of medical terminology. 🎙️
• Explore the full book, glossary, flashcards, and more features in the MindTap toolbar. 🔍
• Reach out to classroom support for help with any digital reading issues. 🆘

Key Takeaways

• Enhance your digital reading with MindTap by navigating efficiently using arrows and chapter contents. 📚
• Use features like highlighting, adding notes, and dictionary lookup to make studying more engaging. ✏️
• Utilize the read speaker for auditory learning to improve phonemic awareness and pronunciation. 🎧
• Customize text-to-speech settings for a personalized reading experience. 🔊
• Contact classroom support at 1-888-216-1667 for assistance with technical issues. 📞

Overview

In the digital age, reading doesn't have to be limited to plain staring at screens. With MindTap from Cengage, you're equipped with tools that bring your texts to life! From navigating digital chapters seamlessly to jumping directly to sections, you're in for an interactive and efficient learning journey. Also, resizing text, bookmarking, and printing out your chapters are just a click away. 📖✨

What makes MindTap a standout tool is its interactive features. Ever wanted to highlight text, scribble in notes, or quickly look up a tricky term in a dictionary while studying? MindTap makes this happen! Plus, if you're an auditory learner, let the read speaker transform your reading sessions into a phonemic adventure as it reads out terms and entire pages to you, improving your pronunciation on even the toughest medical jargon! 📚🎧

Don't let digital hiccups get in the way of your learning. The MindTap toolbar is stocked with a full book option, text-to-speech customization, and much more waiting to enhance your experience. If something doesn't seem right or tech gremlins mess with your studies, a quick call to classroom support sorts it all out. Embrace the future of learning, enriched with engaging and helpful tech features, right at your fingertips! 🖥️👍

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction The 'Introduction' chapter provides an overview of how to maximize the benefits of using MindTap, an online learning platform by Cengage. The tutorial begins by guiding users on how to navigate to their course's digital reading chapters. It highlights the various features available in the digital readings that are designed to enhance the learning experience, including options that allow users to turn the pages of their digital books.
• 00:30 - 01:00: Navigating Pages and Sections This chapter provides guidance on navigating through pages and sections within a course. It outlines how to move between pages using arrows on either side of the screen, jump to specific sections via a 'chapter contents' menu, and utilize a search function to find specific words, pages, or sections. Additional features include options to adjust text size, bookmark pages, and print them out for ease of study or review.
• 01:00 - 01:30: Enhancing Reading Experience The chapter focuses on tools available to enhance the reading experience. It describes features such as highlighting text, adding notes, and accessing a dictionary for definitions, which can be utilized by clicking and dragging over selected text.
• 01:30 - 02:00: Speech Features The chapter discusses the benefits of various speech features that can enhance study efficiency. It highlights the 'read speaker' feature, which allows text to be read aloud. This helps improve phonemic awareness and pronunciation of complex medical terms. Additionally, the chapter briefly introduces the MindTap toolbar.
• 02:00 - 02:30: Mindtap Toolbar This chapter provides an overview of the Mindtap Toolbar, emphasizing various features located on the right-hand side of the main toolbar. Key tools include: the full book icon for viewing all chapters, the ReadSpeaker for customizable text-to-speech functionality, and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary for defining unfamiliar words. Additional icons like the glossary, flashcards, and a notebook are mentioned but reserved for discussion in a later tutorial.
• 02:30 - 03:00: Conclusion This section serves as the conclusion of the digital reading experience guide. It reminds users that they are now prepared to fully enjoy their digital reading tools. Additionally, it provides a contact number for classroom support (1-888-216-1667) in case any issues arise with the digital readings.

Digital Reading Tutorial - BrightSpace Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 [Music] in this tutorial we'll show you how to get the most out of your digital reading experience with mindtap from cengage let's get started by showing you some of the basics when you're in your course click on the digital reading chapter you need to read the digital readings in mindtap give you a variety of options to enhance your learning experience to turn the page of your digital book
• 00:30 - 01:00 click the arrow here on the right hand side you can also click the arrow on the left to go back a page if you want to jump to a specific section of the chapter click chapter contents and then select the desired section if you want to search for a specific page section or keyword click on search this course underneath search this course you can change the size of the text bookmark and print out pages
• 01:00 - 01:30 while you're completing your assigned readings there are several features you can use to enhance your reading experience if you click and drag over any of the text and then let go of the mouse you'll be given a few options such as highlight text add notes and find definitions of words using the dictionary
• 01:30 - 02:00 these features are great to use because it makes your assessment study time more efficient you can also have the text read to you with the read speaker feature select the text that you would like read to you choose read text and then wait just a few moments for the audio to play this can be done through face-to-face encounters listening to the textbook helps increase your phonemic awareness and equips you with the ability to properly pronounce difficult medical terminology finally let's take a look at the mind tab toolbar
• 02:00 - 02:30 in the main toolbar on the right hand side you will notice various icons the full book lets you view the full version of the book which includes all chapters with readspeaker you can customize your text-to-speech voice by changing the speed and style of the voice and the merriam-webster dictionary you can find the definition of any word that may seem unfamiliar by using this tool other icons include the glossary flash cards notebook and so forth but we'll cover that in another tutorial
• 02:30 - 03:00 now you're ready to take full advantage of your digital reading experience remember if you ever encounter issues with your digital readings please contact the classroom support at 1-888-216-1667 you