How do I use the text-to-speech tool in an item bank assessment?
Enhanced accommodation (EA) assessments have several tools and accommodation features that help meet students' needs during the Mastery Connect assessment process. The text-to-speech tool can read passages, question stems, and question responses aloud to students.
District administrators and assessment facilitators can enable and manage the text-to-speech tool at the individual student level and at the tracker level.
Enter Student and Test IDs
![Enter Student and Test IDs](https://media.screensteps.com/image_assets/assets/005/337/041/original/9a3c97e1-c93c-46c3-9b2a-dc2856c7805c.png)
Have your students navigate to https://student.masteryconnect.com/, enter their Test ID [1], and click the Next button [2].
Then have them enter their Student ID [3] and click the Next button to begin the test [4].
View Text-to-Speech Tool
![View Text-to-Speech Tool](https://media.screensteps.com/image_assets/assets/005/337/045/original/Text_to_Speech_-_Item_Bank_Control.png)
When text-to-speech is enabled, a toolbar will display in the upper left of the assessment.
Play Text-to-Speech Audio
![Play Text-to-Speech Audio](https://media.screensteps.com/image_assets/assets/003/967/478/original/Text_to_Speech_-_Item_Bank_Contr_1.png)
Click the Play button to have text-to-speech read the entire question and answer choices.
View Text-to-Speech Tools
![View Text-to-Speech Tools](https://media.screensteps.com/image_assets/assets/005/337/047/original/Text_20to_20Speech_20-_20Item_20Bank_20Select_.png)
Use the pause or stop button as needed. In addition, you can click on the Hand icon to highlight a portion of the text to be read aloud.
Note: The text-to-speech tool is currently available for questions and passages. It does not read images or text associated with the images.