Accommodations in Brightspace

Brightspace offers two easy ways to implement accessibility accommodations for multiple students in a course site, they are as follows:

Making use of the Manage Special Access function in assessment editors.
Setting bulk accommodations through the course Grades area

The following methods will be discussed below, as well as some of the options they offer for accommodations.

Manage Special Access

Special Access can be granted to students who require extra time, revised due dates, etc. to complete assignments. Instructors use special access options to comply with accessibility accommodations. The special access function itself can be found in different places based on the type of assessment, more information on each is below:

Special Access has two main functions:

It can be used to grant students special accommodations for an assessment.
It can be used to allow only certain students access to an assessment.

Assignments and Quizzes

Special Access can be found in the same location in both Assignments and Quizzes.

Edit an assignment or quiz by either clicking New or clicking the drop-down arrow next to an existing assessment and clicking Edit.
Click the Availability Dates and Conditions sub-menu in the top-right of the editor. This will open it.
Scroll down to find Special Access near the bottom of the sub-menu.
Click Manage Special Access to open the Special Access section.

Assignments

Special Access in assignments allows instructors to give students different due dates for the assessment to accommodate extra time. There is not a way to increase the submission count for certain students, so CPI recommends that if the instructor is predicting many students will want to submit multiple times, they should open the entire assignment for multiple submissions.

Quizzes

Special Access in Quizzes allows instructors to change the following:

Due Date and Quiz availability
Timing for quizzes
number of attempts

Surveys

When editing a Survey, Special Access can be found in the Restrictions tab at the top of the editor.

Edit an survey by either clicking New or clicking the drop-down arrow next to an existing assessment and clicking Edit.
Click the Restrictions tab at the top of the editor.
Scroll down to the bottom of Restrictions and select Add Users to Special Access.

Special Access in Surveys allows instructors to give students different due dates for the assessment to accommodate extra time.

Self-Assessments

Self-Assessments and Discussions

Self-Assessments do not give the option to assign Special Access. This is because self-assessments cannot have any sort of restriction placed upon them besides being visible or not to students. As such, there is no need to put Special Access on them.

Manage Special Access

Assignments and Quizzes

Surveys

Self-Assessments

Accommodations in Grades

Grade Exemptions

Grouping Students with Accommodations