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Getting Started

• Bookshare Procedures FAQ: (online) or (19K pdf)
• How to sign up your MCPS school (79K pdf)
  • New Member Roster for Bookshare (28K excel)
  • Student List for ITSS (18K excel)

How to Download and Use Books

• Downloading Books from Bookshare.org (77K pdf)
• Using Kurzweil to read books from Bookshare.org (41K pdf)
• Help! My Password Doesn't Work to Extract Books (51K pdf)
• For Tech Mod 10 schools only: Downloading Books using Kurzweil (62K pdf)
• New! Using Read:OutLoud Bookshare Edition to read books (244K pdf)

Parents

• Registering Your Child to Use Bookshare at Home (101K pdf)
• Training webinars for parents

Video Tutorials

• Enrolling Your School in Bookshare.org (3:57)
• Adding Staff and Students to Your School's Bookshare Account (5:54)
• Downloading Books from Bookshare (4:11)
• Opening and reading a Bookshare book in Kurzweil (4:03)
• Understanding the different files that comprise a book from Bookshare (2:49)
• How can I format a book from Bookshare? (2:51)

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