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What's new in Kurzweil 3000 for Windows Version 11?

Kurzweil 3000 has added more research-based writing tools to support the student at every stage of the writing process – from brainstorming ideas using its graphic organizer or gathering information using its integrated Column Note taking feature, to reviewing the final draft. Best of all, these new writing tools align with general accepted writing processes (e.g. Planning, Drafting, Revising and Proofreading) and are available all in one program, so students do not have to learn additional programs.

Features include:

• Column Notes – allows you to take notes using two or three column strategies to be better organized while reading or attending class lectures. In addition, when reading a document within Kurzweil 3000, you can use highlighters to select information and extract to specific columns to organize information.
  
  
• Brainstorm – enables you to jumpstart your thinking process and get ideas out and linked to other ideas in a graphical way.
  
  
• Outline – provides an alternative to the Brainstorm graphical view with a text-based hierarchical view of your ideas. You can choose how you like to see information as Brainstorm and Outline present two views of the same data.
  
  
• Draft – is for creating and revising writing assignments from a blank draft, from new Writing Templates as well as from Brainstorm diagrams and Outlines.
  
  
• Review - for a customizable list of proofreading and reviewing tasks to perform before a writing assignment is complete.
  
  
• New Spanish Voices – Whether for English Language Learners (ELL) reading definitions in their own language or Spanish language learners listening to Spanish, the new RealSpeak™ Solo voices, one male and one female, are human-sounding and make reading easier to comprehend and are adjustable to users’ reading preferences.
  
  
• Web Licensing Option for Access from Home or Wherever - Students ideally want to access Kurzweil 3000 from any computer, whether at school or home. The new Web License option allows a student or teacher to access a Kurzweil 3000 license via the Internet by entering a user name and password. Also, the Web Licensing option offers easy usage management of licensing for IT departments so they know how many licenses are being used by students and teachers.
  

See the What's New Page for more information on Version 11 new features.