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Read&Write and OrbitNote (both from Everway) are powerful reading and writing tools that support the different ways we think, work and learn. They are free to use and available to students and staff. Students need to use their VU student email account to login.

While especially valuable for students with disability or learning differences, they can also support a wide range of study challenges such as maintaining focus, managing fatigue, overcoming language barriers, and reducing anxiety around academic tasks.

Read&Write is a floating literacy toolbar that assists with reading, writing, research and revision. 

• Highlight text and read it out aloud.
• Highlight and automatically reference selected text.
• Convert text to audio files to listen on the go.
• Build specialised vocabulary lists with definitions.
• Have websites or documents instantly translated into another language.

OrbitNote is a PDF reader and annotation tool that is required when using the Read&Write extension. 

• Highlight text and read it out aloud.
• Use the Screenshot reader for any inaccessible text - think scanned books. 
• Type directly onto PDFs including using dictation or predictive text or annotate and mark-up a PDF.

MATLAB is a high-level language and interactive environment for numerical computation, visualisation, and programming.

You can analyse data, develop algorithms, and create models and applications with MATLAB. The language, tools, and built-in math functions enable you to explore multiple approaches and reach a solution faster than with spreadsheets or traditional programming languages, such as C/C++ or Java.

You can use MATLAB for a range of applications, including:

• signal processing and communications
• image and video processing
• control systems
• test and measurement
• computational finance
• computational biology.

More than a million engineers and scientists in industry and academia use MATLAB, the language of technical computing.