What is Read & Write?
Read&Write lets everyone read, write, and express themselves more confidently. An easy-to-use toolbar makes documents, files, and web pages more accessible. Read&Write is a big confidence booster for anyone needing little support with reading and writing at school or the workplace. Its friendly literacy features help English Language Learners and people with learning difficulties.
From hearing emails or documents read aloud to text prediction, picture dictionaries, summary highlighters, and a grammar, spelling, and confusable words checker, Read & Write makes many everyday literacy tasks simpler, quicker, and more accurate.
Downloading and Installing Read & Write Desktop Application:
Read & Write for Windows
- Go to the Read&Write website and click on "Try Read&Write."
- Select "Windows US EN" in the drop-down menu to start your download
- Once the download is complete, navigate to your downloads folder in Windows and double click on the file "read&write.exe" to start the installation.
- When prompted, select "Yes" to allow Read&Write to make changes to your device
- A Read&Write installation wizard will pop up and guide you through the terms of service and the installation.
- Once the installation window closes, navigate to your desktop and click on the Read&Write icon to launch the software.
- When prompted, select Sign in with Microsoft and log in with your full Southern New Hampshire University email address and password to activate your Read&Write license.
- Once you have signed in successfully, the installation and setup are complete.
- When you receive the first-time user screen, please press "Sign in with Microsoft."
Note: If you are signed into the Google Chrome browser with a personal or work Gmail account, the Texthelp "Read & Write" Desktop Install will automatically authenticate with that email. "Need admin approval" denied permissions is going to appear.
- You will have to sign out and make sure "Sync is off." You will then need to go into the Read & Write settings and select "Sign in with Microsoft."
Please visit Texthelp Support for additional information about technical requirements
Read&Write for MacOS
- Go to the Read&Write website and click on "Try Read&Write."
- Select "Mac" in the drop-down menu to start your download.
- Once the download is complete, navigate to your downloads folder in MacOS and double click on the file "read&write.dmg" to start the installation. A new window will appear.
- Drag the "Read&Write" icon to the Applications folder to begin installation.
- Navigate to your applications folder in MacOS and double click on the "Read&Write" icon.
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If you get a dialog box asking, "Are you sure you want to open it? " select "Open."
- When prompted to accept the user terms, choose "I accept the user terms."
- When prompted for a sign-in method, choose Microsoft Sign in and log in with your full Southern New Hampshire University email address and password to activate your Read&Write license.
Note: If you are signed into the Google Chrome browser with a personal or work Gmail account, the Texthelp "Read & Write" Desktop Install will automatically authenticate with that email. The "Need admin approval" denied permissions is going to appear.
- You will have to sign out and make sure "Sync is off." You will then need to go into the Read & Write settings and select "Sign in with Microsoft."
- You will get the message "Read & Write wants access to control..." dialog box. Choose "OK."
- Sign in as usual with your Microsoft Sign in and log in with your full Southern New Hampshire University email address and password.
- The Read and Write icon will appear in the top right corner of your screen. Choose it to open the Read & Write toolbar.