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There are several assistive technologies designed to support students in the classroom. These supports include note-taking technologies, scanning apps, annotation tools and calculators.
Note-taking Technology
- Microsoft OneNote - digital note-taking app that syncs across all your devices and works on Windows, Mac OS, iOS, Android, and web.
- Ivvi - transforms lectures into mind maps as you listen, making notetaking easy.
- Evernote - remember everything and tackle any project with your notes, tasks and schedule all in one place.
- Good Notes - a note-taking app that uses Ai features to correct handwritten typos, annotate PDFs, and sync across devices.
- Simplenote - a cross-platform note-taking app that syncs your notes on all your devices.
- MindMap AI - a free, browser-based note-taking tool that expands and summarize ideas using AI, where you can manually edit and rearrange maps with add and drop, export in PDF, PNG and other formats.
Scanning Apps
- Scanner Pro - scan, share and store documents.
- Simple OCR - batch scanning and OCR converter.
- CamScanner - a mobile app that lets you capture, enhance, and convert documents into PDF or other formats.
- Microsoft Lens - trims, enhances, and makes pictures of whiteboards and documents readable.
- Genius Scan PDF Scanner - scan paper documents on the go and export them as multi-scan PDF files.
- Mathpix - handwriting recognition for simple math, advanced math, handwritten text and chemical diagrams.
Annotation Tools
- Drawboard - easy to use annotator for Windows 10
- PDF Annotator - a software for Windows that lets you add notes, annotations, signatures, highlights, photos and drawings to any PDF document.
- Mac OS: Annotate with Preview - mark up an image file, provide feedback, take notes by extracting your PDF page as an image.
- PDF Expert - edit, merge, split, annotate and comment on PDF documents.
- Adobe Acrobat Pro - edit and convert PDF files.