• Respect the instructor’s time and environment. Do not try to - catch parallel an instructor before or after class to discuss sensitive accommodations issues. Instructors may have other needs at that time and be unable to attend, recall, and discuss these issues. Further, it is not appropriate to discuss your confidential information with other students around. Students should request private office meetings as needed or communicate with instructors by e-mail.

mail or private meeting. As testing dates grow near, check in with the instructor to ensure arrangements are clear. It is not the instructor's responsibility to track down students to discuss accommodations.

Communicate with and notify your instructors of each exam you need testing accommodations. Using the DRC is an option for instructors. However, instructors may prefer to schedule accommodated testing in their department. As long as the space and resources meet the accommodation need, the accommodations are considered adequate.

  • FOR FINALS: The student must relay to the instructor that THEY must contact the exam coordinator with a revised list of the students' names who need their final exam(s) scheduled through the Disability Resource Center no less than 7 days before the final exam date.
  • Arrive at the testing location 5 minutes or more before the scheduled exam time. Exam proctors will wait 30 minutes. If the student is a no show, the instructor must be the one to choose if, when, and where the student may take a make-up exam and must proctor the student's make-up exam.
  • Exam times will be arranged to overlap the scheduled class time or during the time requested by the instructor. Allowances WILL NOT BE MADE FOR JOBS, EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES, PROJECTS, ETC. If an exam time is likely to overlap with an internship, TA position, or other mandatory attendance position, documentation must be provided to the testing coordinator and your instructor at the beginning of the semester.
  • Bring a photo ID and necessary auxiliary aids. If you do not bring your photo ID you may not be able to take the exam. For students who are allowed to use a calculator during a test they must bring a hand held calculator to the scheduled test site. Exam proctors will not allow cell phones, palm pilots, or other electronic devices into the testing room unless they are specifically included on the student's accommodation plan.
  • Anticipate that not every exam will be in the same location/room. Each exam's room location will be provided by the exam coordinator through email.
  • Reply to all exam emails. The student will be contacted through email with the details of their scheduled accommodated exam. It is important that the student reply and confirm that they have received this email so that the Accommodated Testing Coordinator can give the -go ahead extsuperscript{®} for the scheduled exam.

If your instructor's department does not have the resources to accommodate testing, the instructor, not the student, can contact the DRC to schedule and accommodated exam.