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Exam Proctoring Center (EPC)

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Alternative Testing Services

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) reinforced and extended the standards for compliance set forth in Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

In order to comply with the mandate of Section 504, the EPC provides alternative testing arrangements to students whose disability may impair their ability to take examinations in traditional formats.

Alternative testing arrangements might include

extended time

use of assistive equipment (i.e. computer, spell checker)

a private room

the use of a reader or scribe

oral exams

enlarged printing

exam converted into Braille

Computers used in ACCESS are Microsoft Windows-based PCs.

There is no network access.

Available Microsoft applications are:

Word

Excel

Access

PowerPoint

Publisher

Other available Applications

Kurzweil

TextAloud

Wolfram Mathmatica

Minitab

Students are not allowed to use their own computers.

Last modified February 09 2010 10:49 AM