Welcome back!
In the spring, I’d written about Student Accessibility Services’ new online data management system, Accessible Information Management (AIM). This is to remind you that one of the features of AIM is the email notification to faculty of approved accommodations. Faculty will no longer be receiving a piece of paper (known as Faculty Accommodation Memo) from students with the listed accommodations. Instead, faculty members will receive a Faculty Notification Letter sent to your email through AIM.
Everything else related to receiving accommodations remains the same:
- Students MUST still request these Letters for each class, each semester. They should do this early on in the semester. If a student is approved for accommodations, however has not requested their Letter for your class, you should not be providing them with accommodations.
- Students MUST still have a private meeting with each faculty member to whom they had a Letter sent in order to discuss the logistics of their accommodations. For example, you need coordinate how a student will receive 50% extended time on a test – arrive early, stay late, or take it at another time. These meetings should happen at the beginning of the semester.
- Students who do not provide appropriate and timely notice to faculty as described above are not entitled to use their accommodations until they have met these requirements.
In order to not randomly bombard faculty with these email Faculty Notification Letters, they will be released through the AIM system on the first business day of the week following the student’s request for Letters.
The elimination of paper forms has made things much more efficient for students to request the use of their approved accommodations, and we hope that you find this new system easier for you as well!
