12 Classroom Accommodations
Classroom accommodations play a crucial role in leveling the playing field, ensuring that all students have equal access to learning opportunities. These accommodations are designed to address specific barriers and provide the necessary support for students to fully participate and succeed in their academic pursuits. Let’s look at the different classroom accommodations available at Cambrian College.
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Types of Classroom Accommodations
- This accommodation is provided to help compensate for the time a student loses completing academic tasks due to their functional limitations.
- This accommodation should be requested by the student on an as-needed basis.
- The student must discuss and arrange each and every deadline extension request with the instructor/faculty member.
2) Alternate to Group Projects
- This accommodation is provided when a student requires alternatives to group projects due to their functional limitations.
3) Alternate to Presentation
- This accommodation is provided when a student requires alternatives to graded in-class presentations due to their functional limitations.
4) Ergonomic Furniture
- This accommodation is provided when a student requires ergonomic furniture in the classroom or lab.
- Any ergonomic furniture such as chairs or sit/stand workstations are the property of the GCC and are reserved solely for students registered with the GCC.
5) Allow Photographing for Note Taking
- This accommodation is provided when a student requires a photographed copy of lecture notes and/or any other material presented in class to support their learning needs due to their functional limitations.
- The student may wish to photograph the board after the instructor/faculty finishes writing on it.
6) Allow for Student Absences or Tardiness
- This accommodation is provided when a student’s disability impacts their ability to regularly attend classes (e.g. students dealing with unpredictable periods of ill health).
- Early discussions in the semester between the student and instructor/faculty member will provide clearer expectations for both.
- This accommodation should be requested by the student on an as-needed basis.
- Excessive absenteeism may affect a student’s ability to participate in and successfully meet course/program learning outcomes.
7) Recording Lectures
- This accommodation is provided when a student’s functional limitations impact their ability to take notes in real-time.
- Allowances for the recording of lectures and/or the provision of recordings of Zoom lectures via Moodle.
8) Service Animal
- This accommodation is provided when a student’s functional limitations require the use of a service animal.
9) Preferred Seating
- This accommodation is provided when a student’s functional limitations requires them to have preferential seating in the classroom near the front of the room in order to better hear/see or record.
10) Additional Time for In-class and/or Lab Assignments
- This accommodation is provided when a student requires additional time to complete in-class assignments above and beyond class time, due to functional limitations related to their impairment.