Introduction

This guide demonstrates how to use student accommodations and exceptions in the Blackboard Ultra.  You can set accommodations for individual students or groups of students. You can also exempt students from assessment due dates or time limits.

What are Accommodations and Exceptions and when should they be used?

Accommodations allow students to have both Due Date and Time Limit adjustments put in place for all assessed items in a module.

Exceptions allow adjustments to the Due Date, Access Dates and the number of attempts a student can make for a single student on an individual assessed item.

Setting up Accommodations

To add accommodations for a student in your module, go into the Class Register for your module (located in the Details & Actions panel).

This will list all module members (Instructors and Students). Locate the student, click on the three dots next to their name and select the Accommodations menu option.

Choose the accommodations to grant to the student (Due date or Time limit) and click Save when complete. You can choose both Due Date accommodation and Time Limit accommodations for a student.

An accommodation notification and link to more details regarding the accommodation settings will be added to the Class Register. A purple flag will also be added next to their name.

Viewing students with accommodations in a module

When accommodations are applied this then allows module leaders of the Blackboard Ultra module the additional view filter option of Students with accommodations when in grid view.

When entering any assessment within this module an accommodation link will have been added under the Test Settings that will link to the specific student/s that have an associated accommodation.

Clicking on the student hyperlink will open a list of students and details of their accommodation.

Using accommodations with groups

Students with accommodations that are in a group, all students in that group inherit the accommodation for that item.

For example, if you create a group assignment, and one group member has a due date accommodation, then that amended deadline will apply to all members of the group.

Setting up Exceptions

To add an exception to your Blackboard test or assignment, go to the Gradebook and click on the test/assignment. This will show you all the students and any submission they may have made. Alternatively, go to the test/assignment from the Module Content space, and switch to Submissions.

Find the student you wish to add an exception and click on the three dots in the right column for that student and click on Add or edit exceptions.

Choose the exceptions to grant to the student. This can be the Due Date, the Access Dates and/or the number of Attempts Allowed. Click Save when complete.

Once you have clicked Save and the exception has been stored, the newly applied exception will be highlighted in the class list view by a timer icon next to the username.  The icon appears in the Gradebook and class list.