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High Incidence Accessible Technology (HIAT)

Supporting Teachers Using Technology to Support All Students


HIAT → Technology Quick Guides → Bookshare → Teacher Guided

Teacher Guided Option
for Using Bookshare

Add Teachers and Students to Your School’s Bookshare Account

All MCPS schools already have an “Organizational Membership” with Bookshare. 

Sponsors are teachers who download books for students. Teachers use their unique login and password.

  • If you forgot your password, you can reset it at bookshare.org.
  • If you never had a login and password, ask another sponsor in the building to add you
  • If you don't know of any other sponsors in your building, call HIAT  to get started.
  • If you moved schools since setting up your Bookshare login, please call HIAT  for help.

Members are eligible students who need to access books with text to speech. In MCPS, most students use Read&Write for Google as their text to speech tool.

  • Any sponsor in the building can add members.
  • When adding members, sponsors are affirming their eligibility  to use Bookshare.

In this teacher-guided option, you will provide students with a username and password when you add them as members. We recommend using their MCPS userid and password for consistency.

See Bookshare's How to Guide: Add Sponsors and Members (pdf).

Assign Books to Students Using Reading Lists

  1. Log into bookshare and click on My Bookshare.

  2. In the left navigation bar, choose My Reading Lists.

  3. Select the create button to create a new list.

  4. Check the box next to the students you want to have access to that list.

  5. Click the Add Selected Members button at the bottom of the page.

See Bookshare's eligibility .

Teach Students To Use Bookshare Web Reader

Make sure students know how to

  1. Log in to Bookshare.org in the Chrome Browser

  2. Click on Reading Lists

  3. Click on the name of the Reading List you created for them

  4. Click the Read Now button next to the book they want to read

  5. Wait for the Book to display in the browser

  6. Use the Settings button to adjust font size, background color, and voice options

  7. Click the Play button to listen from the top of the screen.

  8. If they want to start from a different portion of the text, they should scroll so that it is at the top of the screen and then click Play.

 

Support Students' Reading and Learning

  • Provide equal access to complex text by adding any books being used in the classroom to your students' reading list in Bookshare.

  • Provide direct instruction on how to use Bookshare Web Reader to support reading comprehension and learning.

  • Provide options for students to reflect on how reading tools and strategies are working for them.