You can contact CSD to work together to address any concerns and work with us to resolve them.

No. To protect faculty and staff from potential claims of disability discrimination, it is University policy that only CSD should receive and review disability-related documentation. CSD reviews and considers any necessary medical documentation prior to approving accommodations. Students are NOT required to present their instructors with medical documentation verifying their disability or need for accommodations.

Yes. You are responsible for working with the student and CSD to ensure the approved accommodation(s) are coordinated. If, after several attempts, a student tries to contact you and you do not respond, CSD will contact the department chair or the Office of Institutional Equity for assistance in coordinating approved accommodations for the student in the course.

Completed exams are scanned/uploaded to the instructor's MyAccess portal for review. Directions to access the completed exam will be included in the email you receive upon the upload of the exam. Alternatively, you may pick up completed exams from CSD’s office. We are on the 2nd floor of the Wilbur Cross Building, Room 204.

Scrap paper, calculators, rulers, noise-cancelling headphones, and timers

We also provide Scantron sheets and blue books upon request.

*Please note: Blue books are NOT provided if the exam will be returned via scan/uploaded to MyAccess. As an alternative, we will provide lined paper. If you prefer students to complete their exam in a blue book, the instructor/designee must pick up the completed exam from CSD office.

Yes, additional information is available in the Resources section on the Home page of your Instructor MyAccess portal, where you will also find step-by-step instructions.

Federal law requires colleges and universities to consider reasonable modifications if needed to accommodate a student’s disability that affects the timely completion of an assignment or their participation. These modifications are intended for students who are unable to complete their work or are absent from class due to unexpected symptoms related to their documented disability.

The disabilities covered under this academic adjustment are typically chronic or episodic in nature and may affect a student’s class participation as well as the ability to complete assignments, exams, and quizzes.

If attendance/participation can be justified as an integral part of how a course is taught and/or how learning is to be demonstrated and measured, there is a point at which disability-related absences cannot be reasonably accommodated.  It is not reasonable to expect instructors to:

Re-teach - It is reasonable to go over some of the missed materials with students during office hours or by appointment. However, instructors are not expected to re-teach the course to absent students.

Remodel - Instructors are not expected to reconstruct courses entirely for absent students. For example, a course that is lecture-style does not need to be reconstructed as an independent study or online course.

Adjust Course Rigor - Instructors should not alter the essential elements or the learning outcomes of the course for absent students.

A withdrawal from the course or an incomplete may be considered if the student is unable to meet the standards/objectives of the course due to the rate of absences.