Student Accommodations

All guests are assigned a Rutgers unique identifier known as a NetID, comprised of initials and a unique number (e.g. jqs23). In order to access many of the electronic services available to you at Rutgers, all ASL Interpreters and CART captioners need to activate a Rutgers NetID. Their assigned NetID will be given to you by email. NETID’s allow for Canvas Access. In canvas you may keep up to date on class announcements, zoom room updates, and preparatory materials. 

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• Both offer text-to-speech, speech-to-text, OCR, and access to the cloud.
• Texthelp includes built-in math support, Kurzweil does not.
• Both offer Windows and Mac support; however, Texthelp offers better web and mobile applications.
• Kurzweil works better for reading Textbooks and PDFs while Texthelp is better at reading websites and EPUBs.

Submit your Letters of Accommodations: Once approved for accommodations, the  next step is to request your Letter of Accommodations for every semester…

Students approved through the Office of Disabilities Services (ODS) will provide professors with a Letter of Accommodation (LOA) indicating they require American Sign Language (ASL), CART captioning, an FM System or closed captioning for their lectures. Typically, you will receive an email from the ODS prior to this, asking for information to enable you to make appropriate arrangements for your course.

Getting started? Learn more about how to best accommodate students with ASL/CART Captioning accommodations via the following LOA…

To begin you will need to have a video file (i.e .mp4) and a caption file (i.e .vtt, .srt). There are several programs you can do this with, below are the 2 that we would recommend

1. Log in to …

Notetaking Request Form: If approved, please submit your note taking request as soon as possible.

1. Students must first be registered with the Office of Disability Services and…

The following is a timeline of how exam requests are received and handled by the Office of Disability Services (ODS). It includes the student and professor responsibilities.

1. The student submits the Exam Request Form no less than 5 business days (excluding holidays and weekends) before the scheduled date of the exam.
2. The professor will submit their exam to ODS, no less…

Our office provides both Kurzweil 3000 and Read&Write Gold as the recommended tool for interacting with the course content we offer you.

Comparison of Kurzweil and Read&Write

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• Access Box through the web
• Box Download for Windows & Mac
• Contact your local Information Technology help desk for information about…

Read&Write is a literacy software with text-to-speech and other note-taking functions to ease students' reading of text files and articles online. There are many features within this software that can help students write  their papers and read texts such as reading out loud, text prediction,  dictionaries, highlighters, and spelling, grammar, and confusable word checks. 

We appreciate your flexibility during this novel and challenging time, and recognize that this may be the first time some of you are participating in online courses. We have developed information below about how some of the most commonly used accommodations may work in an online environment. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list and we encourage you to contact your ODS Coordinator if you have any questions.…

1. Complete and submit the Registration Form
   Upon completion of this form, you will receive a confirmation email of your submission.
2. Schedule an Initial Appointment
   After receiving your initial information form, a representative…