Accommodate HQ

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Accommodate HQ is a powerful integration that provides instructors with the capability to easily accommodate the special needs of learners, such as extended time, additional days, or extra attempts, all from a centralized location. With Accommodate HQ, the process of managing accommodations becomes more efficient, allowing instructors to monitor permissions granted with ease.

Key Features

Accommodate HQ empowers instructors by offering a range of features to accommodate students' unique needs:

  1. Centralized Access: Instructors can grant special access to one or more students for assignments, quizzes, surveys, or discussions without the need to navigate through every assignment in a course. This centralized access simplifies the accommodation process, saving you valuable time.

  2. Extra Time: Quickly give students extra time or attempts across all quizzes without tedious repetition.

  3. Extended Deadlines: Easily extend due dates, "available from" dates, and "available until" dates for select students across every assignment in the course. This feature ensures that learners have the extra time they require to succeed.

  4. Deadline Removal: If necessary, instructors can completely remove deadlines to accommodate learners who require more time without the pressure of due dates.

  5. Individualized Accommodations: Accommodate the needs of different students by entering unique dates for individuals or groups, ensuring that each learner receives tailored support.

How to Use Accommodate HQ

To make the most of Accommodate HQ, follow these simple steps:

  1. Access Accommodate HQ: Log in to your Canvas course and locate the Accommodate HQ app near the bottom of your course navigation. It should be readily available for all your courses.

  2. Select Assignment or Student: Choose the assignment, quiz, survey, or discussion for which you wish to grant accommodations. Alternatively, select a student.

  3. Specify Accommodations: Set the specific accommodations for individual students or groups. This can include extending quiz time, allowing extra attempts, extending due dates, modifying availability dates, or removing deadlines.

  4. Save Changes: Ensure to save your changes, and the accommodations will take effect immediately for the selected students.

  5. Monitor Accommodations: Use Accommodate HQ to monitor the accommodations granted and make adjustments as needed throughout the semester. If you create new assignments, you'll need to use the tool again to ensure all accommodations are applied.

Learn More

Use the following guides from the vendor to get started with Accommodate HQ:

Setting Special Access - By Assignment

Setting Special Access - Global, by Student

Known Issues

Accommodate HQ only works on pre-existing assignments

Accommodate HQ does not automatically apply extra time accommodations to new quizzes and assignments created after accommodations have been granted, leading to students seeing standard time limits instead of their extended time. This issue requires manual re-application of accommodations to ensure that students receive the correct quiz duration adjustments.

For more information, see: Why don't students have their extra time on some quizzes?

Accommodate HQ can conflict with accommodations granted in Canvas's Moderate Quiz feature

Accommodate HQ uses Canvas's Moderate Quiz feature under the hood to manage quiz accommodations, but whichever system is updated last takes precedence when settings differ. This lack of synchronization between the two systems can cause confusion for instructors, potentially affecting student access if conflicting accommodations are applied. To reduce the likelihood of conflicts with accommodations applied to Canvas quizzes and assignments, instructors should prefer to use a single tool to manage a student's accommodations rather than using multiple.

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