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Guides for readers, students and teachers. Start with the reading basics, or jump to the teacher tools: Google Classroom assignments, reading reports and the optional camera-based observations.
Reading & study
Turn pages, open the reader controls, search a text, change text size, use dark mode and turn on illustrations.
Learn more →Listen while each sentence is highlighted. Choose the voice and speed, and carry on to the next page automatically.
Learn more →Write a note right beside the passage as you read: type it, say it, or write it by hand. Or make a published study note your own.
Learn more →A quiet, private record of the days you read, kept in leaves, with optional face and gaze observation for your own discipline.
Learn more →Save passages, add your own notes, and pick up where you left off with Continue reading.
Learn more →Open the study notes marked * in the text and choose which annotation sets to show.
Learn more →Read the prefaces, introductions, early criticism and source material published alongside selected classics.
Learn more →Prepare and upload your own annotation set so your notes appear against the right passages.
Learn more →For teachers
Connect your teaching account, assign a chapter or scene from the reader, and let students respond and turn in from Austi.
Learn more →See who opened a tracked assignment, their active reading time, sentence exposure, passages revisited and completion.
Learn more →An optional, student-enabled camera signal: was a face visible during active reading time? Processed on the device.
Learn more →Optional and calibration-free: was the reader facing the screen with eyes open? Enabled separately by the student.
Learn more →Create an Austi class, invite students with a code or link, and share bookmark sets with instructions and due dates.
Learn more →For students
Open your teacher's link from Classroom, sign in, read, then write your response and turn it in from Austi.
Learn more →What Start sharing activity records, what it doesn't, and how to pause or finish.
Learn more →Your choice to turn on. Nothing is recorded or uploaded, and you can read and submit without it.
Learn more →Account, privacy & developers
Reading without an account, signing in, cloud sync across devices, and connected Google accounts.
Learn more →Connect other applications to Austi texts, structured references and annotation sets.
Learn more →What Austi collects and why, who can see reading activity and responses, the optional camera, advertising, and your choices.
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