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Our thanks to CERMI.

Accommodations: modifications, or adjustments made in order to respond to educational needs arising from situations of disability, or specific educational support.

Resolution: Rectoral order ratifying the granting of accommodations for the realization of face-to-face exams.

Virtualization: digitalization of exams with accommodations for face-to-face exams through the general application tool designed for this purpose.

Processes involved:

1) Students request accommodations for the learning, and evaluation process.

2) At central services:

a) The secretary of face-to-face exams:

i) Set the exam schedule;

ii) Sign the resolution of accommodations.

3) The Inspection Service:

a) Resolves the incidents that occurred in the exams related to the development of accommodations.

4) Local study Centres:

a) Participates in the development of the Presence Tests, and in the application of the accommodations;

b) Provides classrooms, and resources for practices, and tutorials to take place;

c) Assist students in the enrolment process;

d) Receive the lists of accommodations that are going to be made in their centre;

5) The tutors orient the students in questions related to the content of the subjects and participate in their continuous evaluation.

6) The Faculties, and Schools:

a) Are in charge of the process of enrolment, and validation of the students.

7) Teachers:

a) Support students who request accommodations for the teaching, and learning process, and evaluation.

b) Make the accommodations of their exams and will subsequently virtualize them. Sometimes they make accommodations in the tasks and documents.

c) Participate as examining boards in the face-to-face exams that are carried out in the local study Centres. Also, sometimes examinations are performed at home, or clinics according to students’ disabilities.

8) UNIDIS

a) Value, and proposes accommodations in the learning, and evaluation process.

UNIDIS structure:

a. Technical direction.

b. Administration.

C. Psychopedagogical Department.

d. Department of Technological, and Documentary Support.

The UNED:

1) Has about 10,000 workers including administrative and technical staff, teachers, and tutors.

2) Has 69 national local study Centres, and 18 foreign local study Centres.

Famous phrase: The person with a disability is not the one who lives with the disability, but the one who does not understand it, and does not know how to face it.