Note-Taking Support

WOU offers a variety of resources to help you succeed in your academic endeavors. Disability Access Services provides individualized Note-Taking Support options free of charge for students registered with our office who are approved for this accommodation. You can also find information about study skills tutoring, including note-taking strategies, through Student Success and Advising.

Click an icon below or contact our office for more information about our Note-Taking Support options.

LiveScribe Echo SmartPen.

The Echo SmartPen is a revolutionary tool that digitally records your handwritten notes and syncs them with class audio. DAS currently offers a limited supply of Echo SmartPens for approved students to checkout. We also have ink cartridges and dot paper available upon request.

Jamworks.

Artificial Intelligence enhances your note-taking with Jamworks. Audio and screen recordings of lecture material supplement your lecture slides and typed notes. Jamworks supports your studying with highlights, key points, auto-transcripts, summaries, and more!

Messenger Pigeon.

Specifically selected for DAS-registered students who experience specific barriers to our other options. Messenger Pigeon provides quality typed notes from a human note-taker, based on recorded class audio. Access to Messenger Pigeon is available to approved students.

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Contact Disability Access Services (DAS)

- Email: das@wou.edu
- Phone: 503-838-8250
- Fax: 503-838-8721

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Western Oregon University in Monmouth, OR is located within the traditional homelands of the Luckiamute Band of Kalapuya. Following the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855 (Kalapuya etc. Treaty), Kalapuya people were forcibly removed to reservations in Western Oregon. Today, living descendants of these people are a part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians.

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