Please review the information below about alternative testing accommodations
The most important step for faculty is to complete an Testing Agreement for each of your courses. You can do so by logging into Bear Accessibility and following the instructions below. This allows Disability and Access to provide testing accommodations to students in the most efficient manner.
To avoid the notifications and any confused emails from students or our office, the option is available for youto fill out a testing agreement to say that you don’t give exams. Otherwise, you can just ignore this!
Yes! If you’d prefer to work individually with your students to meet their needs, that’s an option! Just indicate that on your testing specification agreement. If a student still submits a request, we’ll know to just redirect them to you. Importantly, a moderately-sized classroom (e.g., Olin 101) is considered “distraction-reduced” with 8 or fewer students.
You can alter your testing agreement at any time! Simply log back in before the next exam to change the directions. We have directions for doing so in this guide. Always email alternativetesting@ursinus.edu if you need help.
Please let us know ASAP! We will work with the student to make sure that the alternative arrangements work for your grading schedule. Some students may need to schedule on a different day because of a flare up or timing concern, so we will assume they’ve cleared their date with you unless we hear otherwise.
Because the exams need to be prepared in a specific way so that our proctors understand their directions, it’s important that our staff have time to arrange the preparations. If you know that you cannot make the deadline (i.e., you’re frequently finalizing exams the night before), it’s important that you make arrangements to deliver the exam to the testing location yourself (or ask a colleague) or indicate that the proctors should pick up the exam from your office. These are options in the testing agreement.
You should put how long your final exam is DESIGNED to take.Extended time accommodations will be added to thatifit goes beyond the allotted 3 hours for all students.So, if your final is only designed to take 50 minutes, a student with 1.5x time will have the allotted 3 hours. Ifyour exam is designed to take the full3 hourslot, then a student with 1.5x time will have 4.5 hours.
