We making everything available through Moodle. End of. Students who want paper print their own. All students get a print allowance and disabled students get a larger allowance. We’ve not had any problems so far ......
Regards
John
John Conway BSc PhD FGS FRGS FISoilSci MNADP FHEA
Head of Disability
Principal lecturer in soil science
Royal Agricultural University
Cirencester, Glos GL7 6JS
On 18 Dec 2017, at 15:37, Alistair McNaught <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Hi all
I’ve come across a situation where a university is doing all the ‘right things’ in terms of making accessible digital resources to give their students maximum independence and flexibility in terms of font size, colour backgrounds etc. However they are getting a growing number of students demand paper printouts as their reasonable adjustment. This is proving time consuming and expensive to service as well as undermining everything the university is hoping to achieve in terms of student independence, resilience and employability.
We suspect there are a range of contributory factors - some down to clarity of expectations (as well as entitlements); possibly a support offer that is too open-ended and (probably) lack of IT skill and confidence meaning that working online is outside the comfort zone – irrespective of the accessibility benefits.
I’m keen to see whether:
1. This kind of issue has cropped up in other universities or colleges
2. Whether you have clear digital competency requirements for courses and (if you do)
3. How you top up student IT skills that are shown to be lacking.
Feel free to contact me off list if you want to be discrete – I’m happy to summarise anonymous experiences in a blog post if I get enough response.
Thanks
Alistair
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