Planning and implementing academic accommodations are shared responsibilities between Accessibility Services and KPU faculty and staff.
Accommodations are arrangements that reduce or remove barriers so that students have the chance to develop and demonstrate the same skills and abilities that are expected of all students. Accessibility Services works with each student to create individualized accommodation plans. Accommodations help KPU meet its legal duty under the B.C. Human Rights Code as well as the Accessible B.C. Act.
You will be invited, via the shared accommodation plan, to participate in planning, implementing, monitoring, and troubleshooting accommodations throughout your course.
Protection of Privacy
We are all responsible to follow privacy principles, legislation, and policy when we work with students' personal information. Disability and accommodation information can be particularly sensitive for many students.
Some ways we can all protect students' information as it pertains to accommodation planning include:
- Ask questions that focus on the information you need to know about the Accommodation Plan, rather than a diagnosis or details that are not relevant.
- Set up your classroom and interactions with students in such a way that students with accommodations are not easily identified.
- Obtain a student's permission before sharing their information. Remove identifying student information when asking a colleague to help with a student scenario or situation.
Student's accommodation plan is confidential information and is to be sent by the Accessibility Services team only after being granted approval by the student. Accessibility Services will only discuss a student's academic accommodations after obtaining student's consent.
Accommodation Descriptors
Faculty and Staff: Please visit our Accommodation Descriptors for further information on how you can support students with particular academic accommodations in your courses.
Universal Design for Learning
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework to enhance teaching and learning for all. Based on cognitive neuroscience research, UDL guides learning goals, materials, methods, and assessments for a diverse classroom.
- KPU Teaching and Learning
- A Comprehensive Guide to Applying Universal Design for Learning
- Storying Universal Design for Learning