Interacting with your Instructor Portal

In this video, we will discuss Interacting with your Instructor Portal when you

have a student in your class that has registered

with the Disability Support Services Office.

In the first part of this video,

we will discuss receiving a faculty notification letter.

To keep you informed,

our case managers will send out

faculty notification letters during the first week of class.

If a student signs up for accommodations later in the school year,

these letters will be sent out right at the conclusion of their decision meeting,

which is when the students' accommodations are approved.

Whenever a letter is generated,

you will receive an e-mail with clear directions on how to log into

the instructor portal to review your students' specific accommodations.

It's a quick and secure way to ensure everyone is on the same page from day one.

To get started, simply visit our website and click on Log into A&M.

From there, just be sure to select Access Instructor Portal to open up your dashboard.

Before moving forward to view student details,

you are required to review this screen.

Your digital acknowledgment signifies that you understand

the school's Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act or FERPA policies,

pertaining to student records.

This responsibility hinges on respecting privacy and confidentiality.

Our office must ask that you strictly avoid

accessing this portal on public or shared computers.

When your work is complete,

please sign out and close your browser immediately to secure this information.

Thank you for your diligence.

Click "Continue" to view student accommodations.

Once you are inside the portal,

simply look at your student list and select view right next to

the name of the student whose faculty notification letter you need to review.

Take a moment to carefully review the faculty notification letter.

If you have any questions at all concerning the listed accommodations,

please don't hesitate to reach out to the case manager on file.

Once everything is clear and you understand the accommodations,

simply click, "Submit Acknowledgement Electronically".

By doing this, you are confirming that you understand

the students' accommodations and will

implement them to the best of your ability in your classroom.

If you have your syllabus ready and want to upload it to your dashboard,

just look over at the side bar and click Upload syllabus.

From there, simply select your class, give the file a title,

choose your document and click "Upload File".

By sharing your syllabus with us,

we can quickly coordinate with

any essential third-party vendors like interpreters or cart,

communication, access, real time translation services,

who provide vital accommodations for your students.

It also allows our case managers to review the syllabus early on,

ensuring that all accommodations align beautifully with

your goals and don't fundamentally alter the core of your course.

If any of your students have alternative text formats as it approved accommodation,

you will see them listed under the alternative format section in the sidebar menu.

Please keep in mind that it is the student's responsibility to

request their textbooks in an alternative format from our office,

and the Disability Support Services team will handle locating and converting those files.

To help us get a head start,

if you already know the textbooks you will be using in class,

you can e-mail the book, name, author, edition,

and ISBN number directly to the Assistive Technology Accommodations coordinator or send

it to the office at disabilityservices@tamusa.edu.

Providing this early ensures we can secure and

format the files as quickly as possible for your students.

If you have any questions,

please visit us at the Central Academic Building Suite 210,

or you can call us at 210-784-1335 or email us at disability.services@tamusa.edu