What’s on this page?

• How to access student accommodations
• Accommodation descriptions
• Digital Accessibility Resources, including a checklist.
• Accessibility Policy, Procedures, and Committee Information
• Arranging Testing Services for accommodated exams 

Have questions not answered here? Email disabilities@mclennan.edu 

How do you know a student has accommodations?

Notification emails go out to the Student, Faculty, and Testing Center from “datatel” to inform you that accommodations are active for the semester. The student is included on each of these emails. Student accommodation lists are then viewable in your Roster Special Information report. 

Or Accommodations (Disability Services) staff may contact you directly for specific course accommodations. 

Accessing Accommodations for Students:

• Quick Guide for Accessing Accommodations - Roster Special Information Report
  • There are navigation tabs at the left of this document when you open it. Click them to expand the list.
  • If you are off campus, see the VPN instructions.
  • If you are an adjunct/part-time instructor and unable to see accommodations on your Roster Special Information, please contact disabilities@mclennan.edu or your Department Chair. 

Accommodation Descriptions and Explanations:

• Common and Less Common Accommodation Descriptions

Digital Accessibility:

• Digital Accessibility Compliance and Resource Information for Faculty
  • There are navigation tabs at the left of this document. Under “MCC Faculty Resources” there are several asynchronous resources for fixing accessibility issues in Brightspace, how to do captions, audio descriptions, alternative text, color contrast, PDFs, PPTs, Word Docs, and spreadsheets.
  • There is also IDI Open Lab Hour's meeting information.
• Center for Teaching and Learning – Digital Accessibility
• Digital Accessibility Checklist
• There is a Digital Accessibility Policy and Procedures, and Two Committees that Support Digital Accessibility:
  • Digital Accessibility Policy E-XV
  • Digital Accessibility Procedure Manual
  • Electronic and Information Resources Committee – eir@mclennan.edu
  • Academic Digital Accessibility (ADA) Committee – ada@mclennan.edu

Utilizing the Testing Center/Testing Services:

• If the Testing Center/Testing Services are going to be utilized for accommodated exams in your class, please follow the steps provided by the Testing Center/Testing Services: Testing Services Professor Information
• If the Testing Center/Testing Services is going to be utilized by students in your class for Finals, please start working with the Testing Center and the student EARLY to help with that scheduling.