Over the course of your teaching at UAH you may receive official documentation from Disability Support Services (DSS) informing you that a student in your class requires additional time, captioned recordings, or other accommodations for their learning. DSS provides some helpful guidelines on their website for faculty, including a syllabus statement and instructions for accommodated exam procedures.

Aside from official DSS accommodations, you may receive informal requests from students for extra time, make-up attempts, and extensions. Your syllabus should cover your course policies on these topics so use those established expectations as your guide. For scenarios outside the scope of your policies you may need to use your discretion or speak with your department when determining whether to honor or deny a request.

Below you'll find tutorials describing the most common accommodations that can be managed through Canvas.

Providing an Alternate Due Date/Extension (Assignments) - this tutorial describes how to manage due dates. By default, Assignments are assigned to all students in a course but you can differentiate due dates for individual students students or whole sections.
Providing an Alternate Due Date/Extension (Quizzes) - this tutorial describes how to manage due dates. By default, Quizzes - both Classic and New - are assigned to all students in a course but you can differentiate due dates for individual students students or whole sections.
Providing Extra Time or an Extra Attempt (Classic Quizzes) - this tutorial describes how to use the moderate function for Classic Quizzes to grant a student extra time on an exam or give them an extra attempt.
Providing Extra Time or an Extra Attempt (New Quizzes) - this tutorial describes how to use the moderate function for New Quizzes to grant a student extra time on an exam or give them an extra attempt.

Note: This list may not cover all accommodatios scenarios so ask for help if you need more information. Contact DSS (dss@uah.edu) for questions about official accommodations. Contact the Help Desk (helpdesk@uah.edu) for all other questions.