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Access Plan Guidance Page

Overview: How Academic Accommodations Are Set Up at Dickinson

Academic accommodations are facilitated using the Access Plan, a CLIQ application, accessed from Dickinson's Gateway. After receiving instructions for using the CLIQ Access Plan as well as guidance on students' rights and responsibilities under the ADA, students and faculty complete an online "Confirmation of Understanding" once per semester. Once the Confirmation of Understanding is complete, the Access Plan process can begin.

Scoll to the bottom to access specific step-by-step guidance for both students and faculty. 

ACCESS PLAN PROCESS OVERVIEW

1.  Students Convey Their Accommodation Eligibility and Intentions to their Professors

  • Students log in to their Access Plan through CLIQ and find a “card” for each class that includes the list of accommodations for which they are eligible.
  • Students indicate which accommodations they intend to use for each specific class, and disclose through CLIQ their accommodation intentions to their professors.
  • Students send an “Access Plan Meeting” request to their professors using the CLIQ application that sends from the student's email account and goes to the professor's email inbox. 

2.  Students and Professors have an “Access Plan” Meeting

  • Once the professor sees that the student has entered the dates of any tests requiring accommodations, the professor provides the student with a specific meeting time when they can confidentially review the student's Access Plan and discuss how each accommodation will be implemented.
  • The professor reviews all test-taking accommodation requests with the student and indicates if the test will be administered by the professor or if proctoring will be needed from ADS. 
  • If changes are needed to the Access Plan, the student should make them during the meeting so that the professor can acknowledge the change before the meeting concludes.

3.  Professors “Acknowledge” Accommodations

  • At the conclusion of the meeting with the student (or once the student has finalized their accommodation intentions), professors will click to “Acknowledge Accommodations” on their Access Plan, which can then be viewed by ADS. 

Step-by-Step Set-up Guidance for Students and Faculty

Be sure to review the following instructions on how to disclose and set up accommodations through the Access Plan in CLIQ.