Accommodating students with disabilities is required of all Montgomery College faculty regardless of their teaching environment. One of the most commonly prescribed accommodations is extra time for completing tests and exams. For faculty whose courses are delivered on WebCT, providing extra time can be accomplished in several ways:

1. Duplicating tests/exams for release to one student

Once a test or exam has been created in a WebCT course site, an exact duplicate of it can be created, with different settings, for release to only one student. This is the simplest and least time-consuming system for accommodating students with disabilities.

Gradebook entries and calculations can easily be adjusted so that insertion of extra tests and exams does not alter the accuracy of total scores for the entire class or for the individual student.

2. Adjusting test/exam settings

Many faculty collaborate with students with disabilities to establish a semester-long test-taking schedule. Since a WebCT assessment can have only one set of parameters, this requires establishing specific times during which the assessment will be made available only to the student with a disability. The instructor and student may establish a regular time, after the class has completed an assessment, during which the assessment will be available with altered settings, i.e., extended time, to this student.

While this system works well, it imposes a responsibility on the instructor to be available at specific times to change assessment settings. Some instructors may be unable to make that semester-long commitment.

3. Placing tests/exams in an Assessment Center

Tests and exams for individual students can be placed in any one of the three campus assessment centers. However, this is perhaps the least satisfying and least accommodating solution, particularly if tests/exams for other members of the class can be completed online. Although some WebCT students have indicated a willingness to go to one of the assessment centers, this should seldom be necessary. WebCT has built-in capacities for accommodating students with disabilities.

If you are unsure how to duplicate a test, change WebCT settings, or adjust gradebook entries, please contact one of the technical support staff who will be glad to walk you through the steps.

• Onsite Instructional Design & Technical Support Lenita Reeves: Where: Germantown, HS 206 When:  Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Specialty: Manager of SunGard onsite staff/Training, WebCT Basics, Quality Matters (TM), Teaching with Elluminate Phone: 240.567.7785 Tom Cantu: Where: Germantown, HS 249 When:  Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Specialty: Training, Online Teaching with WebCT, Online Pedagogy, Faculty Support Backup Phone: 240.567.6006              Michele Knight: Where: IT Service Center, Rockville, MT 011 When:  Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Specialty: Rockville Faculty Support/Training, Online Teaching with WebCT / Multimedia Phone: 240.567.1733        Rebecca Li: Where: IT Service Center, Takoma Park, RC 111 When:  Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Specialty: Takoma Park Faculty Support/Training, WebCT Basics Phone: 240.567.1392 NOTE: All on-site SunGard support staff spend time in faculty offices and in training. If there is no answer when you call one of them, please leave a voice mail. If you receive no callback within three hours, please call a faculty support staff member at a different campus.