Useful apps

Studying from home

Home study support technology suggestions

To help with us all having to work and study from home currently, below is a useful guide to some handy apps, programs, websites and browser extensions that can help you with your work. It also shows how to get text to speech from Word and Adobe Reader:

Home Study Support Technology Guide

Approved apps list

There are many apps available in all formats that can help with your study strategies, organisation, and general wellbeing. The two links below give some examples that can help with study support or wellbeing, or both:

CALL Scotland app wheels

CALL Scotland is a Scottish Government-funded organisation that provides educational information for all levels. The information wheel posters below were made to help identify apps that can support students with dyslexia, but they can of course help any student with their studies.

Key information

Disability Mailbox

Job title
Disability Mailbox
Email
disability@hw.ac.uk