Welcome to this quick overview of SnapType Pro 2 from the APSEA Access Technology Department. This app is a great tool for students who benefit from having worksheets read aloud or need alternatives to writing by hand, like using a keyboard, stylus, or voice typing.
We’ll walk through how to add documents, use annotation tools, and access features like OCR and voice typing to support learning.
SnapType Pro 2 Text Transcript
Welcome to this short video about SnapType Pro 2 from your friends.
At the APSEA Access technology department, we often recommend SnapType Pro 2 to students who benefit from hearing their worksheets read aloud and students who benefit from alternatives to writing with pencil and paper.
So students who could use a stylus keyboard, or voice typing.
Instead, I'm on the main library page of SnapType Pro 2.
To add a new document, select the new document tab.
At the top of the page, you can add a new document using the camera, the iPad library, download from the cloud, or use a preset template.
I'm going to open a document I added using the camera at the top of the screen in SnapType Pro 2 is a selection of tools.
Often it looks like a capital A in the selection of tools.
You can select the Capital A and tap the screen to use the keyboard or to use to use the keyboard or choose voice typing.
Voice typing looks like a microphone icon on your onscreen keyboard.
To make the writing space larger, there's a slider bar at the top of the screen that you can move to the right to make the box bigger or left to make the box smaller.
In the dropdown toolbar, you can also use the highlighter, the eraser, the scribble tool where you can circle or write something free hand or with a stylus.
You can also use the scissors tool to move a word on the page somewhere else.
You select the word and then drag it.
This is great for the vocabulary exercises, like a word bank activity.
At the bottom right of the screen is also an OCR button.
If you click this button, any words on the page that it recognizes will appear in a white box.
If you click on a white box, it will say what’s in the box (reading voice: “I spy”; “and a yellow plane”)
You can share any annotations that you've made with a teacher using the share button.
This is just a quick overview of the SnapType Pro 2 app.
For more information, please reach out to your APSEA Education support teacher.
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