Accommodations for CS303E

Students registered with UT's Disability and Access (D & A) office are entitled to certain accommodations to facilitate their participation in classes. This information is conveyed to faculty in the form of a letter from D & A to the faculty member shortly after the student qualifies. Accommodations vary depending on the student's situation.

The staff of CS303E is committed to providing any accommodations to which you are entitled. However, because of the hybrid nature of our CS330E class certain of these accommodations aren't particularly relevant, as explained below. The ones that are most relevant are extra time on quizzes and exams.

Use of techology to take notes: all of the slides and videos are available. For the Friday in-class sessions, any technology you find helpful is allowed.

Ability to record lectures: videos are already available on the class webpage. Feel free to record the Friday sessions.

Copy of class notes: all slides and videos are available from the class website.

Access to materials in class: everything is available from the class website.

Alternatives to group work: there are no group assignments.

Alternatives to class presentations: there are no class presentations.

Use of laptop on essay questions: exams are written, but there are no essay questions. If writing is an issue for you, please contact us prior to exams and we will make appropriate arrangements.

Seating accommodations: seating will only be an issue during the Friday meetings. Students are free to sit wherever they like. If seating during exams is an issue, please discuss with me.

Flexibility in attendance: the only required class meetings are on Friday and for the final exam. If attendance at these is an issue, please discuss with me.

Flexibility with deadlines: you can have needed flexibility. However, extensions are not automatic; notify your TA in advance that you'll need more time and that you have an accommodation. Don't just turn in an assignment late and then ask for the extra time. The TAs have been asked to be understanding and work with you. However, this class moves quickly, so it's a very bad idea to fall behind.

Extra time on quizzes: quizzes are given on GradeScope and a deadline is automatically enforced. Any extra time you are allowed will be provide in the form of a special GradeScope quiz accessible to you; be sure to let us know if you're not seeing this. TA Sai Kurelli is the go-to guy for this. BTW: you typically won't be able to see the quizzes on GradeScope until the day of the quiz.

Extra time on exams: students allowed extra time on exams will take the exam in a special location, proctored by one of the TAs, and receive any additional time allowed. This also provides a reduced distraction environment for exams. For the first two exams, I would like to give them during the 9am-noon timeslot depending on your availability. So if you have, e.g., an 11am class and are allowed 1.5X time on exams, perhaps you'd take it from 9-10:30am. We'll work that out.