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

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

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

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

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.