Resource rooms

There are three dedicated study areas with specialist technology for students with disabilities.

‌‌Students are welcome to join and follow an online technology forum.
You can learn about learning support tools that can help in improving your grades and maximising your academic performance. 

Please email if you would like to join.

Te Ratonga Whaikaha|Student Accessibility Service Study Areas equipped with assistive technology

The Blue Room (book online)

The Green Room (book online)

The Alcove

The Green Room and Blue Room

The Green Room and Blue Room are located in the basement of the Erskine building. The Green Room has both PC and a Mac while the Blue Room has only  a PC.

All the resource areas have computers with the following assistive technology:

• JAWS screen reader
• Natural Reader screen reader
• MAGic screen magnifier
• ZoomText screen magnifier/reader
• OpenBook optical character recognition
• Dragon speech recognition and audio transcriber
• TextHelp learning support software
• Equatio math and science processing program

Rooms are available to be booked on a 'first-in, first-served' basis; swipe card access to these rooms is arranged through your Accessibility Advisor.

In some cases, specialist assistive software may be installed in other computer labs on campus.

For installation requests and hands-on training, please contact Assistive Technology on Level 3, Puaka-James Hight Library, or email assistech@canterbury.ac.nz to book an appointment.