Faculty: Student Accommodations: Adding Additional Time for Exams in Examsoft

Student Accommodations: Adding Additional Time

This article is intended for Faculty members with Department-Level Administrative rights and  focuses on how to add additional time for students taking Exams in Examsoft and Examplify.  

If you do not have Department-Level Administrative rights, then please contact your department administrator and ask them to add the additional time accommodations for you and your students.  

Adding Additional Time

If you have Department-level administrative rights in Examsoft, please follow the instructions below to add additional time accommodations for students in your department. 

• Go into your course and click on the Students tab at the top.

 

• Then click on the Edit (pencil symbol) on the right side of the screen for the student you want to add extra time for.  

 

• Next, in the middle of the page there will be three check boxes, click the box for Extra time.

 

• Finally, move the bar so that it indicates the percent of time you want the student to have. Time and a half is 150%, double time is 200%, and so forth. 

 

• And finish up by scrolling to the top of the screen and clicking Save in the upper right corner.  

 

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Additional Information:

• This extra time now applies to every assessment this student takes in this course until the course ends. 

• This student will have 1.5X time for every Exam in your course in Examsoft. 

• The amount of additional time can be changed by following the same procedure as outlined above.

• You do have to set this up for each student who needs Additional Time.

• Once you save an additional time accommodation in Examsoft, it is set for the duration of the course for this course only.

• If other courses also have an additional time accommodation, the course instructor will need to set it for their course as well.