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Disability- and chronic health-related functional impacts can diminish a student’s academic performance at certain times of day. For example, a student with functional neurological disorder may experience seizures more frequently in the evening, or a student's medication may fatigue them in the morning.

Students should avoid classes scheduled when they expect performance impacts. However, sometimes a student cannot know the exam schedule when they choose a course, such as:

• centrally scheduled final exams
• midterm exams scheduled outside regular class times

In these situations, the student can reschedule the exam to a time that doesn’t conflict aligns with the accommodation.

This accommodation does not allow a student to cancel or unreasonably delay exams.

The spirit of this accommodation is to allow the student to avoid exams during predictable times of significant disability- and chronic health-related impacts.

Student responsibilities

Notify your instructor of the conflict as early as possible. This may be after the final exam schedule is published.

Instructor responsibilities

Negotiate an alternative time for the student to write the exam. Contact the CAL Assessment Program as soon as possible if they are supporting the exam.

How to help

Arrange your final exam time to avoid conflict with time-of-day accommodations. Alert OREM by including a time-of-day request in the academic department submission form for general final exams.

Notify students of all quiz, test and exam dates at the start of term, especially if you schedule exams outside of class time.

Consider alternative formats such as a take-home exam with a 24-hour window, if appropriate for your course.