If you would like to volunteer for this opportunity, please let me know as soon as possible. There are two benefits you will receive for volunteering: For students attending class and taking notes regularly, this assignment is easy. Students with a disability attend class regularly however their disability may interfere with their ability to take notes. If you are having difficulty identifying a volunteer in your course please contact the SAC at or 78 for assistance. As a note-taker, I felt a sense of responsibility. Overall, I found that becoming a volunteer note-taker helped make me feel more accountable and take better notes. Note-taker packets for recruited student note-takers are also available for download. The notes had to be taken by myself personally, and they have to organized so that the students can easily use them to study from. ĭisability Access Services is asking for a student from this class to volunteer to share their notes with a classmate with a disability. If your course is asynchronous we recommended using email or Blackboard’s messaging feature for recruiting a note-taker. The following paragraph can be emailed to the class or posted in MyGateway to help locate a volunteer notetaker. Volunteer work makes you more marketable when applying for jobs. An example of an announcement an instructor can use is. The instructor can make an announcement in class, on ICON, or through email to solicit a volunteer. The instructor may have a good idea which students may be able to serve as good note-takers. The satisfaction of knowing you helped someone The student registered with SDS may already know a student in class who can serve as a note-taker. For students that attend class and take notes regularly, this assignment is easy. This is a volunteer opportunity (not a part time job). It is against confidentiality laws to disclose the identity of the student. Keep the announcement confidential by simply stating that “Disability Access Services” needs a notetaker for this class.

If you are a DSPS student who is looking for a guide on how to. This guide is intended for non-DSPS students who elect to provide class notes for a DSPS student as a notetaker.

If you make an announcement, these key points should be emphasized: Liberal Arts Campus Pacific Coast Campus 4901 East Carson Street 1305 East Pacific Coast Highway Long Beach, CA 90808 Long Beach, CA 90806. You may choose a notetaker at your own discretion or make an announcement in your class. If a student requests a volunteer notetaker in your course, your assistance will be needed in locating a notetaker. All students who receive notetaker accommodations must attend class, but they may need notetakers for various reasons, most often because they cannot use their hands, write slowly, or cannot keep up with the amount of notes in class.ĭAS relies on students in courses to volunteer as notetakers. Disability Access Services provides note taking as a mandated support service.

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