Improved student disability support
Staff who process special consideration requests will now receive a new detailed report and from early April academics will receive the same information via their Moodle reports.
A new and innovative system that will enhance the information sharing for students who require alternative arrangements for assessments (AAAs) has been launched.
This dual stream approach is enabling staff to quickly and easily access student details as well as removing the onus on students to provide staff with a Disability Support Services (DSS) support letter for each teaching period.
“While some smaller Australian universities have systems for automatic advice to faculty staff, this represents a major advance for larger and more diverse institutions like Monash,” said Matthew Salas, Disability Adviser.
“We expect this new system will be enthusiastically welcomed by our students.”
Staff who process special consideration requests will now receive a new detailed report and from early April academics will receive the same information via their Moodle reports.
Through Moodle academics can view alternative arrangements for class tests and see which students have approved flexibility with assignment deadlines.
Students will still need to confirm with their academics if alternative assessment arrangements are required.
This dual approach also supports variations between schools and faculties in the staff positions which are responsible for managing the AAA and Special Consideration processes.
This DSS led initiative was achieved through collaboration with Student and Education Business Services, eSolutions, the Office of the Vice-Provost (Learning and Teaching) and faculty representatives from the Learning Systems Reference Group.
An AAA Moodle user guide for staff has been developed and can downloaded from the DSS intranet.
For more information please email the DSS team at disabilitysupportservices@monash.edu.