Notetaking Services
Resources on this page are provided to students with approved CDAR accommodations. For assistance accessing or using these resources, please email cdar-notetaking@uidaho.edu or call 208-885-6307 to schedule a meeting with the assistive technology specialist.
Which notetaking resource you use will be based on your particular needs, including disability barriers, personal devices and notetaking methods.
Notetaking Software
Students using Messenger Pigeon record class lectures using their phone, an audio recorder and/or laptop. The recording is uploaded to Messenger Pigeon where a team of professional note takers will create comprehensive class notes. Notes are then available to the student within 24 hours.
A Livescribe Smartpen is a device checked out to students that allows the user to record audio while simultaneously using it to take hand-written notes on special notebook paper. The audio and text timestamps are synced up to allow an individual to skip to the exact part of the recording they’d like to review based on what they were writing at the time. A digital copy of everything written is automatically created, which can then be uploaded easily to your computer for review in the Livescribe software or exported as a pdf.