[nabs-l] In class assignments and popquizzes

[Lucy Sirianni]

Hi Suzanne,

      I requested that exams be emailed to me and took them in 
class on my BrailleNote.  I did not use extended time and simply 
emailed my completed exam to the professor once I was done.

      That said, given your specific situation, I don't see why 
you couldn't take the exams at home, with access to your CCTV, 
the larger computer screen, etc, and email your responses to the 
professor within an agreed-upon amount of time.  A professor 
might hesitate to allow this accommodation for closed-book exams, 
but given that you're expected to use materials besides the exam 
anyway, I would think this would be permissible.

Hope this helps!

Lucy

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: Jewel <herekittykat2 at gmail.com
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>Date sent: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 10:32:29 -0400
>Subject: Re: [nabs-l] In class assignments and popquizzes

>I do tests in two ways.  It it is a scheduled test, I get it sent 
to the disability office to be made sure it is completely 
accessible, including language settings, tables, alt tags for 
graphics.  I don't usually use double time unless there are many 
tactile images, like there were in Biology, or I have to read it 
in Braille, like for mathematics, since I am a slow Braille 
reader.  Doing the test in the disability office ensures that I 
have someone available if there are problems.  I schedule to take 
the test at the same time as everyone else unless I mean double 
time.
>If it is a pop quiz, the professor puts his or her digital copy 
of the quiz on a flash drive that I provide.  The professors know 
from the beginning of the semester that this is how we will do 
it, so they have the digital copy ready.  I put the flash drive 
in my laptop, put my answers in the digital copy, then turn in 
the flash drive when the other student's turn in their tests.  
The professor moves the file to their computer and returns the 
flash drive by the end of class.  They can then print it or grade 
it in the digital file, and give me the graded paper or file.  If 
they grade it digitally, they usually email it to me.  I prefer 
this to cut back on the paper I have to keep up with.
>I hope this method makes sense to you and it helps you figure out 
the best method for yourself.  Also, I use JAWS to do this, 
though for language class I sometimes use my refreshable Braille 
display so I can see accents and spelling.
>-Jewel

>Sent from my iPhone

>On Sep 3, 2013, at 9:48 AM, Suzanne Germano <sgermano at asu.edu> 
wrote:

>> I have two course that at least weekly if no every lecture have 
in class
>> quizzes or assignments.  These are open book ,open notes, talk 
with other
>> students, ask professor questions...

>> How do you handle these.  For example, are they provided to you 
in large
>> print, braille, electronic? What if you are someone use uses 
extended time
>> on things like tests? What about the access to books? At home I 
use the
>> print book with my cctv so I can flip to index then flip to 
page.  This is
>> not the same with the pdf.  Also my monitor at home is 27 inches 
vs 17 on my
>> laptop so I am much faster on the large monitor.  I have always 
been a print
>> reader and do not do well at all with audio.  Since my vision is 
stable
>> there was never a need to not use large print or cctv.  I also 
find it
>> difficult to work with other students since I can't see their 
work and even
>> when I say I am legally blind or visually impaired and ask if 
they can
>> write bigger, they still write in their normal size which is  
too small and
>> with very like pencil.

>> What are your techniques? Do you do it in class with an 
accessible format?
>> Do you take it home and return it next class?

>> When I went to school years ago 1980s-1990s they did not do all 
this in
>> class stuff.


>> Thanks

>> Suzanne
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