[Athen] Book for an online student

[Robert Spangler]

It's not necessarily sharing the scanned files, but asking the student to
mail me the physical book that's the difficulty.  Is that fair to do, since
they would have to pay to do this?  Or would we be expected to buy a copy
of the book or reimburse his shipping?


On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 5:18 PM Wink Harner <foreigntype at gmail.com> wrote:


> Hi Robert et al ATHENITES,

>

> We did this frequently at Southern Oregon University not just for students

> in online classes but for all students (mostly all). We used Sugar Sync,

> and online filesharing application, and would convert the books to the

> appropriate format and upload the files to sugar sync, where the students

> could logon and download wherever they happened to be.

>

> There are a number of apps that are free that are efficient and easy to

> use in this category, we chose one for the college that was a paid

> subscription service, was not terribly expensive, but because we wanted to

> protect both the privacy of the student and the copyright of the books we

> created individual links for each student for their books and contract when

> or if they downloaded the books or if other attempts were made to download

> the books. The files are removed each semester. If a student needs it

> again, we can reload the file for them.

>

> If you need help with recommendations on cloud-based services, let us

> know. Sure there are many of us online it would be happy to share

> recommendations.

>

> This is more common than you might think! There are fairly simple ways of

> dealing with it. Now you know :-)

> Hope this helps.

>

> Wink Harner

> Wink Harner

> Accessibility Consultant/Alternative Text Production

> The Foreign Type

>

> Portland OR

> foreigntype at gmail.com

> 480-984-0034

>

> This email was dictated using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please forgive

> quirks, misrecognitions, or errata .

>

>

> On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 1:16 PM Robert Spangler <rspangler1 at udayton.edu>

> wrote:

>

>> Hello, I have an alternative format request from a student who is

>> enrolled in one of our online programs and is not local.  The publisher has

>> not responded to a request for an alternative format version of this

>> textbook.  Normally, I would offer the student an in-house scan of the

>> text, but this is hardly convenient given the student is not local.  Has

>> anyone else experienced this issue, and what did you do?

>>

>> Thanks,

>> Robert

>>

>>

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Robert Spangler
Disability Services Technical Support Specialist
rspangler1 at udayton.edu
Office of Learning Resources (OLR) - RL 023
Ryan C. Harris Learning & Teaching Center (LTC)
University of Dayton  | 300 College Park  |  Dayton, Ohio 45469-1302
Phone: 937-229-2066
Fax: 937-229-3270
Ohio Relay: 711 (available for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing)
Web Site: http://go.udayton.edu/learning
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