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

[Humbert, Joseph A]

Hi Neal,

The separate group with separate and hidden (to other participants) exam was being used to provide the needed accommodation without notifying the entire class the user has a disability. That is the heart of the complaints, the student's privacy is being violated and is causing discrimination.

The non-descript groups method is fine, but it is a workaround not a permanent solution. In addition to creating more work for the instructor/TA (creating 4+ groups), there still is some risk of discrimination with all users having access to group membership. For example, you have 14 students and 7 groups setup with a certain number of users in each group: [3,2,3,2,1,1,2]. Students still may inquire why two groups only have one member. So unless the instructor wants to release an extended time test to more than the student who needs it, there are always going to have to be groups with only one user. It is not very common to have two students in a class that need the same accommodation.

Thankx.

Sincerely,
[joe]

From: Neal Caidin [mailto:neal.caidin at apereo.org]
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 1:35 PM
To: Humbert, Joseph A
Cc: accessibility at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: Sakai Course Groups Created for Accommodation Purposes

Hi Joe,

The non-descript group naming seems like a reasonable workaround and the main cost is the effort to educate faculty and others who maintain Sakai sites.

That option is not being well received at Indiana?

Cheers,
Neal



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Humbert, Joseph A<mailto:johumber at iu.edu>
February 7, 2014 at 1:11 PM
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
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