[WG: Accessibility] Sakai Course Groups Created for Accommodation Purposes

[Humbert, Joseph A]

Hi All,

We have just received complaints from students that groups set up in an Oncourse (our name for Sakai) course site for the purpose of providing extended time on quizzes and tests are visible to all participants in a course site when using the "Group Membership" view of the roster tool. This is not something new, but we are now receiving disability discrimination complaints about the issue. Therefore, we felt we should mention it to the wider group.

A potential solution (that would take a large amount of work) would be to provide a preference for the Roster tool to hide certain groups from the "student" role similar to the setting to hide groups in the Messages tool.

The current solution we will be using at Indiana University is to have multiple non-descript groups (group a, group b, etc.) so that the group with the person with a disability cannot be singled out.

Any feedback from the group or other suggestions are welcome. Thankx.

Sincerely,
[joe]

Joe Humbert, Principal Accessibility Analyst
UITS Assistive Technology and Accessibility Centers
Indiana University - Bloomington/Indianapolis
535 W Michigan St. IT210 F
Indianapolis, IN 46202
http://iuadapts.iu.edu<http://iuadapts.iu.edu/>
(317) 274-4378 [Direct Line]
(317) 274-6482 [Main Office]
johumber at iu.edu<mailto:johumber at iu.edu>

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