Provide students with literacy support tools in a single Sidebar and teachers with Google Workspace integrations to create accessible learning materials.
Hear any text read aloud in a natural voice.
Write with prediction, spelling, and grammar help.
Read any page in 60+ languages.
Add Read Aloud to a Google Form in one click.
Leave voice feedback in seconds, not paragraphs.
Reach every reader without building two versions.
What it is
The Mote Chrome extension sits on every student and teacher's device. Clicking it opens the Sidebar, with reading, writing, and creating tools that help students engage with content and communicate. It also lets teachers add Read Aloud to a Google Form in one click, and make audio-accessible learning materials.
Text Prediction as students write, Read Aloud to listen back to their own recordings, and voice feedback from teachers.
Embedded voice notes for directions, plus the Dictionary and Read Aloud, including Read Aloud on graphics and images.
Accessible Forms with Translation and Read Aloud in one click.
Record spoken instructions for students, right where they collect their work.
Every Sidebar tool works on any page students visit.
Click Open with Mote on any PDF and use the full toolkit on it, powered by MotePDF.
Read Aloud works in Sora and Epic, so students keep the same reading accommodations there.
Set up once. Every tool, on every page, from then on.
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Add Mote to Chrome
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Pin it to your toolbar
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Open the Sidebar
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Pick a mode
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Try any tool, anywhere
Open the Mote listing on the Chrome Web Store and click Add to Chrome. On managed Chromebooks, an IT admin can push Mote to every student device from the Google Admin console, so nobody has to install it themselves.
Click the puzzle piece icon at the top right of Chrome, find Mote in the list, and click the pin. Mote then sits in the toolbar, one click away on every page.
Click the Mote icon to open the Sidebar, then sign in with Google or ClassLink SSO. There is no separate account to create. The Sidebar can sit vertically or horizontally, and it expands or minimises to suit the student.
Use the mode selector at the top of the Sidebar. Reading holds Play Page, Select Area to Read, Translation, Highlighter, Screen Mask and Dictionary. Writing holds Text Prediction, Speech to Text and Review My Writing. Creating holds voice recording and audio tools. Focus Mode strips a page back to just its content.
Open any webpage, Google Doc, Slide, Form or PDF and press Play Page. Every Sidebar tool works the same way wherever the student is, so there is nothing new to learn per app.
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The Mote Sidebar is a Chrome extension, built for Chrome, and works on any laptop or computer.
Yes. Mote is built into Google Docs, Slides, Classroom, Forms, and Gmail, and Read Aloud even works on Google Forms quizzes.
No. Students sign in with their Google account (ClassLink also works), so there's no extra account to create.
Yes. Teacher Feature Controls let you set which tools a class or an individual student can use.
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