[NABS-L] College computer concepts course

[Terri Stimmel]

Hello everyone,


As I have mentioned here before, I am attending a local, community 
college in my area. I don't believe that they have worked with too many 
blind people. Although, they do work with people who have different 
disabilities. I get the feeling though, that a lot of the people they 
work with, have such disabilities as, autism, and things of that nature.


Anyway, I am currently taking a computer concepts course. It is a basic 
course, from what I understand. It will cover such things as, Microsoft 
Word, and all of those products. As well as maybe a couple of other 
things. But it isn't anything too crazy! This is a course that I have to 
take. It is one of the requirements.


So what I was wondering is, is there anyone here who has dealt with this 
sort of class, in the last few years, or so?

How did you get through this class?

What were some things that needed to be done? Either, things that you 
needed from the professor? Or, things that the disability services 
office needed to do?


I have a pretty decent professor. He wants to make this class work for 
me. And, he is even trying to help me, a little before class.

Also, I am able to use my own laptop. They are not having me use one of 
the computers in the classroom. We use Canvas, quite regularly, to 
upload our assignments. That is the easy part.


I am really struggling with this class. I don't know how to perform a 
lot of the tasks that he is asking of us. And, he doesn't know what to 
do, either. I have been trying to research things, and find the answers. 
That way, we can both learn together.


However, trying to do this, while managing my other three classes, is 
turning out to be rather difficult. And of course, the disability 
services office, does not have too many answers. Which really doesn't 
surprise me, because they do not have the experience.


Any thoughts, and advice on all of this, would be very much appreciated!


Thank you,


Terri