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How to enable early-start for students with special accommodations

This article will show you how to make special accommodations by allowing individual students to start early.

This Guide is for:

Super Admin
Teacher Admin (Full-Access)
Teacher (Owner Full-Access)

Steps on how to set Course level - default extra time accommodations (applied to all activities in the course):

Step 1: On the Students tab, click on the ‘Accommodations’ button.

Step 2: On Student Accommodations page, select checkbox beside student’s name (multiple students can be selected)

Accommodation-select student

Step 3: Go to ‘Select Accommodations’ dropdown and select the relevant extra time option.

Step 4: A pop-up will appear to review the extra time settings for selected students. Click ‘Confirm’ button.

Step 5: Settings are applied on Accommodations column on the Student Accommodations page.

On the ‘Students’ tab view, a purple icon will appear next to the name of student that had been allocated extra time.

This is viewable by the instructor only.

Accommodations-applied students

Steps on how to enable early start for individual students during activity publishing:

Early Start only applies to activities with the following requirements

Synchronous Individual activity (IRAT, Individual Application Case, Peer Evaluation)
Has a time limit
Has students with default accommodations (multiples format)

Synchronous Activities

Step 1: On Step 6 "Publish Activity", turn on ‘Set a Time Limit’ button under ‘Activity Duration’

Step 2: Students with Accommodations section is shown.

The 'Apply Settings to Activity’ toggle is turned ON by default (Student Accommodations automatically applied, option to disable)

Step 3: Click on the ‘Add As Extra Time’ dropdown and select 'Enable Early Start'.

Add on Extra Time allows the student designated extra time after the activity ends.

Enable Early Start allows selected students to start an activity early before it opens for the other students.

Step 4: In the pop-up, select one or multiple students, and set early start duration. Click 'Confirm' to apply changes.

Step 5: Click ‘Publish’ button

Acoommodations-publish activity

Steps on how to view early start accommodations from the activity dashboard:

Step 1: Ensure there is an ‘Early Start is enabled’ indicator above the 'Start Activity' button,

In Activity Settings, Enable Early Start indicates YES

Step 2: When you click on the 'Start Activity' button, there will be a pop-up. Select the Activate Early Start option, and check that the duration is correct.

Click ‘Start’ to begin Early Start.

Once the Early Start timer is started, there is no option to pause the timer.

Early Start-popup-start

Step 3: The timer will start running, with a light blue background indicating the activity timer is currently on Early Start.

The Activity Status will also show a clock icon next to the running timer.
Students on Early Start will also see the timer status with a clock icon.

Early Start-timer starts running

Students who have been allowed to start during Early Start will have an ‘Early’ tag indicated next to their names in Attendance.

Selected students that has Early Start enabled will all start activity at the same time, even if they have been given default accommodations.
Once a student submits their activity during Early Start, they will not be able to access the activity again later on. We suggest that students with Early Start do not click submit.

Early Start-attendance

When Early Start is on-going, there are no other options available besides ending the Early Start. This means that pausing or adding extra time is not possible.

If you wish to end Early Start before the timer runs out -

Step 4: Click ‘End Early Start’ to end the Early Start period. A pop-up will appear asking you to confirm this action.

Early start-end