<div dir="ltr">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?<div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 5:18 PM Wink Harner <<a href="mailto:foreigntype@gmail.com">foreigntype@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi Robert et al ATHENITES,<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>This is more common than you might think! There are fairly simple ways of dealing with it. Now you know :-)<br>Hope this helps.<br><br>Wink Harner<br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Wink Harner<br></div>Accessibility Consultant/Alternative Text Production<br></div>The Foreign Type<br><br></div></div>Portland OR<br><a href="mailto:foreigntype@gmail.com" target="_blank">foreigntype@gmail.com</a><br>480-984-0034<br><br></div><div>This email was dictated using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please forgive quirks, misrecognitions, or errata .<br></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 1:16 PM Robert Spangler <<a href="mailto:rspangler1@udayton.edu" target="_blank">rspangler1@udayton.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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?<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Robert</div><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Robert Spangler<br>Disability Services Technical Support Specialist<br><span><a href="mailto:rspangler1@udayton.edu" target="_blank">rspangler1@udayton.edu</a><br></span>Office of Learning Resources (OLR) - RL 023<br>Ryan C. Harris Learning & Teaching Center (LTC)<br>University of Dayton | 300 College Park | Dayton, Ohio 45469-1302 <br>Phone: 937-229-2066<br></div><div>Fax: 937-229-3270</div><div>Ohio Relay: 711 (available for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing)<br></div><div>Web Site: <a href="http://go.udayton.edu/learning" target="_blank">http://go.udayton.edu/learning</a><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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