Yes, Microsoft's Reading Coach is free, but is it any good?

Microsoft’s Reading Coach is an AI-powered tool for students that makes learning fun. Made free recently, the tool is aimed at engaging students and improving reading fluency. It is built on Reading Progress, which was released in Microsoft Teams.

Reading Coach was developed with the interests of students in mind. It allows parents/guardians, educators, and IT administrators to play a vital role and contribute to the student’s learning curve.

Microsoft’s Reading Coach offers the following reading modes and then analyzes your skills with AI:

• Creating a story using AI
• Reading a pre-set passage
• Adding your own passage

This helps students both be better readers and explore the horizons of creativity. The tool assesses the progress made and accordingly adjusts the difficulty level. But is it any good? What’s the initial feedback from parents and teachers? Let’s find out!

Is Microsoft’s Reading Coach any good?

While there are a few alternatives available, we would bet on Reading Coaching because Microsoft is heavily invested in AI. Over the years, its AI-based products will be highly refined and deliver the best to you.

Even in its present state, Reading Coach is an advanced tool employing AI for educational purposes.

A major drawback, we believe, is the lack of support for languages other than US-English. Though Microsoft plans on including more languages and dialects in the coming months.

On the web, there are several reviews available. Most parents found it to be an engaging and effective tool for children.

I believe this app is perfect for allowing the person to be in control of their story.

A teacher liked the fact that it’s integrated with Microsoft Teams and wrote in the Microsoft community,

I LOVE the reading coach tool available in Microsoft Teams and all of the data that it provides.

Surprisingly, at present, it doesn’t seem like Reading Coach has had a massive adoption. The numbers are still low. But since the tool is free, we expect the user base to pick up in the coming days!

Have you tried Microsoft’s Reading Coach yet? Let us know your feedback in the comments section.