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Ways Otus Provides Student Accommodations
Ways Otus Provides Student Accommodations

Here are ways in which Otus can provide accommodations to students that may need them.

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Written by Monica Burke
Updated over a year ago

If you are looking for information regarding the types of accommodations we offer with the Otus platform, you've come to the right place!

Differentiation

  • Create and assign alternate versions of lessons.

  • Create and assign alternate versions of assessments.

  • Ability to create groups of students to streamline the process of distributing differentiated resources.

  • Create and update district-specific, itemized learning plans for any student.

Assessment Accommodations

  • Teachers can add video recordings to go along with the assessment questions.

  • Teachers can add audio recordings to go along with the assessment questions.

  • Students can add video recordings to Rubric and Advanced assessments.

  • Students can add audio recordings to Rubric and Advanced assessments.

  • Assessments can be printed so students can take them on paper (keeping in mind that some question types on advanced assessments are not conducive to printing).

  • For Advanced and Simple Assessments, teachers can activate the Lockdown Browser, which locks down the testing environment and removes any visual distractions from the screen.

Specific to Advanced Assessments

Accessibility options include:

  • Making the assessment full-screen (eliminates the possible distraction of the Otus primary navigation bar).

  • Color scheme change: the ability to change the background and foreground colors of the assessment to accommodate any visual deficits. Options include:

    • Black on white (default)

    • Grey on light grey

    • Purple on light green

    • Black on violet

    • Yellow on navy

    • White on black

  • Adjust the Font Size of the entire assessment (regardless of the font size it was created in). Options include:

    • Small (75%)

    • Normal (100%)

    • Large (125%)

    • Extra large (150%)

    • Huge (175%)

  • A list of keyboard shortcuts for zooming in and out, including:

    • Zoom in: Command Plus (+): (will zoom in incrementally each time the + key is pressed)

    • Zoom out: Command Minus (-): (will zoom out incrementally each time the key is pressed.

    • Reset zoom: Command 0: the browser returns to the default zoom level.

  • A free integration with Texthelp offers a variety of additional accessibility tools, including:

    • text-to-speech read aloud

    • talking single word translator

    • talking dictionary

    • picture dictionary

    • highlighters.

  • Enable student annotations while taking the assessment that include:

    • notepad

    • sticky note

    • drawing mode

  • Customize a mathematical/symbolic keypad for use on assessment questions

  • Specific to Multiple Choice questions, explicitly articulate the text that will be read aloud with a screen reader. This is concerned an advanced accessibility option. For more information, click here.

Assistive Technology

  • Otus is designed to function on any touch-screen device.

Technical Support

  • Otus offers technical support to families in their native language

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