Student Accommodations in Brightspace

Students with approved accommodations often require changes be made in the course. This article will walk you through some of these accommodations in Brightspace.

Extra Time on All Quizzes

To grant a student a fixed amount of time (or multiplier) extra on all quizzes, follow these steps:

1. Open the Classlist of the course

2. Scroll to the student with accommodations

3. Click the arrow next to the student’s name, then select Edit Accommodations

   

4. Check the Modify Time Limit box

5. Select either Multiplier of original quiz time (e.g. 1.5x or 2x time) or Extra time (e.g. 30 or 60 minutes extra)

   

6. Click the blue Save button

7. You will now see a new icon in the classlist next to the accommodated student’s name:

   

Extra Time on ONE Quiz

If a student only needs accommodations on one or two quizzes, you can make this change individually:

1. Navigate to the Edit Quiz screen of the applicable quiz

2. Click on Manage Special Access in the Availability Dates & Conditions pane on the right:

   

3. Click on Add Users to Special Access

   

4. Check the Override time limit box and provide a new time limit (or no time limit). Note that you can enter a number in any box and the others will automatically calculate (eg. changing 1 to 2 for Multiplier automatically filled the other two boxes as seen below

   

5. Scroll down and check the boxes next to each student this accommodation should apply to

6. Click the blue Save button at the bottom of the screen

7. Click Save and Close