Manage Classlist accomodations

Use Accommodations to give individual students course-wide adjustments, including the following:

  • Extended time (e.g., 1.5× time or additional minutes)
  • Allowing right-click functionality (useful for assistive tech)

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Tip: Use Classlist accommodations when you need a recurring, course-wide adjustment for a learner. If you need an exception for a specific activity only, for example, if a learner missed a quiz due to illness, use the Special Access feature to extend the time for this one particular quiz only.

If both are set:
 

  • Classlist accommodations apply automatically
  • Special Access can override settings for that specific quiz

To set Classlist accommodations

Before managing accommodations, ensure your role has the required Accommodations permissions.

  1. From your course navbar or Course Admin, open the Classlist tool.
  2. Find the learner who needs an accommodation.
  3. Click the dropdown next to the learner’s name.
  4. Select Edit Accommodations from the menu.
  5. In the Edit Accommodations dialog, select Modify Time and specify extra time either as a Multiplier of original quiz time (e.g., 1.5×) or Extra time.
  6. Click Save.


The Edit Accommodations dialog in Brightspace showing quiz timing settings.

As a result, a small icon appears next to the learner’s name indicating that this learner has accommodations set.


The Classlist page displaying a list of learners with columns for image, name, org-defined ID, role, and last accessed, with an accommodations icon highlighted next to one learner’s name.

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