Canvas has a feature called Immersive Reader that can enhance users’ reading experience by improving accessibility and boosting reading comprehension. Immersive Reader lets users change font size, adjust text spacing and background color, and read text aloud.
Once enabled, the course Home Page, Assignments, Pages, and Syllabus will display an Immersive Reader button in the upper right. The button is not visible in Quizzes or with attachments such as PDFs.
Immersive Reader is a user-controlled setting. If you enable it for yourself it does not become enabled for the students in your class.
To enable Immersive Reader reach out to Educational Technology or follow the steps below.
- Click Account on the upper left, then Settings from the menu. Note: this area of Settings is not the same as Course Settings.
- Scroll down to Feature Options and enable Microsoft Immersive Reader.
More information about Immersive Reader can be found here: