Providing PowerPoints/Slides: A student’s LOA states that they need to have an electronic copy of my PowerPoints in advance of class. I don’t share my PowerPoints with any students. Do I have to share them with this student?

Yes, you need to share your PowerPoints/Slides with students who have this accommodation listed on their Letters of Accommodation (LOAs).

There are a number of reasons why students may have this accommodation. To accommodate the impacts of their disabilities, some students are using their personal screenreading technology in order to convert the text in the slides to speech so they can hear the information on the slides; some students are using technology to support their independent note taking that allows them to integrate their personal notes with uploaded slides; some students are unable to copy information from slides while attending to CART captioning or ASL interpreting; some students need to enlarge the font on the slides in order to read them; some students cannot process information that is presented verbally at the same time that they are reading and processing the information on the slides. For these reasons and others, students are approved to receive a copy of the course PowerPoints/Slides electronically in advance of each class session.

If you have concerns about a student having access to a copy of your slides, DSP can have the student sign a formal agreement affirming that they will use the slides only for their own personal study and will not share them with others in or out of your class.