Renewing Accommodations

1. Accommodation plans must be renewed every semester for each class the student chooses to renew in.  
2.  Students can request accommodations online using the Student Accommodation Portal.  
3. A plan is not active until you receive a copy for each class in your email.  This may take several business days after a request is made. 
   • Faculty members may also require a reasonable amount of time to review plans and start the provision of individual accommodations.  
4. Students not eligible to renew online will be asked to schedule a Zoom or in-person appointment. 
   • Eligible students:
     • Have permanent documentation
     • Are not requesting new accommodations
     • Have worked with SAS for 2 semesters
     • Are not on any academic warning

"Renewing accommodations" is a term often used to describe the process of requesting new accommodation plans for a new semester, based on permanent eligibility that you have previously established through SAS.

• Current eligibility is required. 
  • If you had temporary eligibility for accommodation(s) in a past semester, that eligibility will have expired. Meet with an SAS specialist to discuss next steps.
  • If you have not yet established eligibility for the accommodation(s) you want to use, you will be unable to request the accommodation(s) online. Meet with an SAS specialist to discuss next steps.

Every semester, for every course, you have the right and responsibility to choose which accommodations you want to use, out of those for which you’re eligible. You do this by making accommodation requests in the SAS accommodations portal, or by meeting with an SAS specialist.

From your accommodation requests (whether input by you online, or input by the SAS specialist when you meet), the SAS portal will generate a separate accommodation plan letter for each course, reflecting the choices you made for that course (if any. You can also choose to tell the SAS portal you don’t want to use *any * accommodations in a given course).

The SAS portal will only send accommodation plans to the courses you request, and will only include the eligibilities you select for each specific course.

Plan letters requested prior to the semester’s start will be sent out to students and instructors the week before the first day of classes for that semester. Plan letters requested after the semester's start will be sent out on a rolling basis. 

Accommodation plans are not retroactive. The plan takes effect on the date it is issued, which is stated at the beginning of the plan letter.

Information regarding renewing for Fall will be emailed to students over Summer break.