[Athen] Course Management Systems... Extra time

[Wink Harner]

Hi NormaJean et al ATHENites,

Relay to the instructor to create a section of his class for the 
student(s) with disabilities and s/he can specify the extended amount of 
time for the online tests & assignments. Not too hard. Cutting & pasting 
info from one screen to another. On our Instructor Notification forms we 
indicate a time extension for online tests/assignments.

If the instructor has any trouble, refer them to the help screen on 
creating a subset of students w/in Blackboard or WebCT.

Hope this is helpful.

Wink


normajean.brand wrote:

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> Fellow Athenians,

>

> I have been asked to collect comments, suggestions, responses from you 

> and how you and your college handle extra time on quizzes, exams, any 

> timed assignments in an online class. For instance, most of our 

> students who meet certain criteria are accommodated with extended time 

> up to time and ½ and some with double time. This works fine for the 

> traditional F2F classroom and on-site testing centers, but not online. 

> The CMS we use is Blackboard. Blackboard does not allow, that we can 

> find, for 1.5 time duration only increments of 1 hr, 2 hr, etc. 

> Blackboard’s answer to this is found in the instructor’s help file: 

> For users with special needs, such as students who use a screen 

> reader, give them *_extra time or an unlimited_* amount of time to 

> complete the assessment. (I’m sure you all have some idea of the 

> accessibility issues with the various CMSs out there, including 

> Blackboard.)

>

> The concern is that if the norm is up to time and ½ but not available 

> in the CMS and we allow double time or unlimited time are we 

> over-accommodating? Discriminating against the other students in the 

> same online class? Do we allow double time in an online class but only 

> time and ½ in the traditional F2F class? If the instructor has two or 

> more students with accommodations, 2 with time and ½ and 1 with double 

> time, how is that handled?

>

> How are you handling this at your college? When I suggested allowing 

> all the students in the online class the same amount of time, say 

> double time, many of the professors met that suggestion with disdain. 

> You don’t want to know how they took the ‘unlimited amount of time’ 

> suggestion!

>

> Thank you for your kind and thoughtful responses, ideas, etc… short of 

> doing away with Blackboard (sigh).

>

> NJ

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