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<p>One small piece of info - Canvas has the ability for students to add audio or video to their submissions (in case the student used it previously).</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> athen-list <athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu> on behalf of Karlen Communications <info@karlencommunications.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 27, 2016 6:50 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Access Technology Higher Education Network'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] Adding recording functionality for visually impaired students</font>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Cambria",serif; color:#1F4E79">I agree with Robert. I think part of deciding whether this is a needed accommodation or preference is to have the student provide a rationale for why this is necessary. After all, when
you go to the LMS designers/team looking after it, you will need to justify to them why you need this – especially coming mid-term and possibly breaking other functionality in the LMS.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Cambria",serif; color:#1F4E79">The student should be able to articulate why this is necessary. Also, is this a new student to the LMS or online environment? If they have worked with online courses before, how did
they manage? Was it a different LMS that had this capability?</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Cambria",serif; color:#1F4E79">I would want to know what the barrier is to participation with the LMS as is.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Cambria",serif; color:#1F4E79">Cheers, Karen</span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Adam Lipkin<br>
<b>Sent:</b> January 27, 2016 9:32 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] Adding recording functionality for visually impaired students</span></p>
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Hi, Karen -- that's exactly what I'm trying to determine! I suspect it's the latter (and possibly a preference/hidden new functionality request from the DL folks), but I want to make sure I'm doing my due diligence. I absolutely agree that it seems reasonable.</p>
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Karlen Communications <<a href="mailto:info@karlencommunications.com" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">info@karlencommunications.com</a>> wrote:</p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Cambria",serif; color:#1F4E79">Why is the student reluctant to use your suggestion? It seems reasonable given the effects the accommodation would have on the LMS ecosystem. Just curious as to whether this is an issue
of accommodation or preference.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Cambria",serif; color:#1F4E79">Cheers, Karen</span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> athen-list [mailto:<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> January 27, 2016 9:00 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] Adding recording functionality for visually impaired students</span></p>
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I'm looking for some guidance based on a request from our school's distance learning program:</p>
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They have a visually impaired distance learning student, and the school has asked that we accommodate them by adding the ability for the student to record her responses via audio on the discussion boards in Moodle.</p>
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I've got a few concerns about this as a reasonable accommodation, but want to make sure that I'm treating this fairly.</p>
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First. the discussion boards in Moodle use a standard text interface, so if the students is already able to enter text, they should be able to do so here. Has anyone heard of situations in which text entry for visually impaired students has been an issue (particularly
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Second, adding new functionality to Moodle is not a simple or easy thing, and requires a reasonable large amount of time and resources to test and ensure that the features don't break other elements (it's not impossible, but since all courses here use the system,
adding or changing new functionality mid-semester affects the entire campus). So asking us to do it mid-semester isn't a "reasonable" accommodation unless there's a demonstrated burden.</p>
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I've also asked if just using a recording tool locally and uploading the MP3 file to the forum would work, but they seem reluctant.</p>
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Have you heard of any situation similar to this? Anyone have any good advice or guidance (or examples of how this has been dealt with elsewhere) here?</p>
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