This adjustment is always provisional - there if you need it, particularly in times of stress. The 1:1 provision is met through sign-up or drop-in office hour sessions offered by academic staff within your School. How these are delivered may vary by School or College.

The sessions are held by academic members of teaching staff as an opportunity for students to clarify lecture or seminar content, ask quick questions, access materials and give general advice on preparing for an assessment. It is up to you to sign up or attend and seek out this support.

Please note that that it does not mean that individual coaching will be offered, draft assignments read, or lectures repeated for individual students. Appointments will generally be brief, around 10 minutes, so please prepare for the meeting by engaging with the reading and course content and noting some questions to take along with you.

This usually gives the student the chance to present to smaller groups or individual tutors, and occasionally choice of which group to join for group projects or work. In some cases, it might be possible to complete an individual piece of work rather than group. However, please note this varies by module and will depend on the core competencies required.

Please note that it is not always possible to give an individual alternative assessment, so you should discuss with your Wellbeing Officer who can liaise with relevant staff to identify an alternative assessment as appropriate. Please note that group work or presentation adjustments are not put in place automatically, you should contact your Wellbeing Officer or Module Lead accordingly, well in advance of the assessment, ideally at the start of the semester, to discuss whether you require it to be implemented.

It is acknowledged that regular or recurrent medical appointments may clash with taught sessions, or you may need to take time out to manage your condition and this adjustment is here to help mitigate this. You must still notify the school of your absence in the usual way; this will still be included as part of attendance monitoring.

You may also benefit from contacting relevant teaching staff to alert them to your absence and using their office hours to support catching up on the missed work. This will help prevent you from falling behind with your learning.

Please note that if your attendance reaches a level significantly below the diligence threshold, you will also be asked to attend a meeting with your school to discuss this and whether additional support is required. Students with RAPs are not exempt from diligence processes.

The University encourages recording of all lectures (PDF - 181KB) and large teaching sessions, making them available via Panopto (accessed via Canvas), though it is not obligatory. Given the nature and set up of seminars, these are not recorded, and personal recording is usually not permitted. If you have any concerns about accessing the content of seminars, this can be discussed with your Disability Adviser to establish if alternative adjustments might be available.

In some instances, recording will not be allowed due to the confidential nature of discussions or cases. Whilst we recommend you access the Panopto resource, if you do record lectures using a personal device, please seek consent from the teaching staff beforehand. Please remember that the content is copyrighted and cannot be reproduced in any online or offline forum or in essays without appropriate attribution. It is for personal use only.

This adjustment is likely to be one that only affects final year students undertaking a dissertation or those on a postgraduate course. You must always seek consent from the teaching staff before making a recording. If you find that this adjustment is queried, then please ask your supervisor to liaise with your Wellbeing Officer accordingly. With regard to the content of recordings, they are subject to the same principles concerning copyright and data sharing as described above.

This recommendation can be requested as needed and should be requested in advance of the original deadline. Whilst we wouldn't recommend using it for all assignments, as this may have an impact on other deadlines, if beneficial, you should be able to use it to stagger hand-ins when you have multiple deadlines together. This can be requested via your Wellbeing Officer.

You will still be required to complete an extension form but shouldn't need to provide any further evidence when the request relates to your disability. Depending on the type of assignment, it may not be possible to grant an extension for the full time requested, and requests will usually be limited to a period of 10 working days.

During certain times in the academic year, extension requests may be impacted by university processes. Please note that extensions are not permitted on all assessments. The School will decide whether extensions are permitted and this is not something that the Wellbeing Team or a RAP can override. Until your extension is approved, please continue to work to your original deadline. If your extension request is rejected, then you will be sent information about the Extenuating Circumstances process.

The University approach is that this adjustment can benefit all students; therefore all reading lists provided should indicate priority reading and supplementary reading. If you have any problems with reading lists, please get in touch with your Module Lead.

Where a change occurs to any timetabled session or activity (such as cancellation due to tutor illness) or a room change, for example, a notification will go out via Canvas or student email to all students enrolled on the module as soon as staff are made aware of the change. Unfortunately, there isn't the opportunity to email RAP students separately.

You will sit your exams in a central venue extra time room (unless there are other specific exam adjustments in your RAP - and venue requirements may also vary for CMH students, due to non-standard assessment periods).

The extra time should also apply to class tests or take-home essays, if these are used, although the majority of take-home papers are already inclusive in their design so in these circumstances additional time is already incorporated. This means that for each hour of an exam you will receive 15 minutes extra time and for each half hour 7.5 minutes extra time.

Please note: if you have class tests and wish to check that your adjustments are in place for any upcoming modular assessments, for example if you are taking a module outside of your School, you can do so by contacting your Education Support Administrator. The information should reach them by other means, but this is a sensible precaution to ensure that you get your additional time for all assessed exams.

These are also centrally organised, except in specific cases (and some CMH exams). With this adjustment you can take a break without losing overall time in your exam. During the rest break you would not be permitted to add anything to your script.

Each hour you would have 15 minutes break time available and each half-hour you would have 7.5 minutes break time available. This can be initiated by raising your hand to notify the invigilator, and exam and answer papers should be turned face down during breaks.

If you have been assigned a reader or scribe for the main exam period (prior to the RAP deadline) this will be arranged for you and reflected in your exam venue timetable. If further support is required for a class test or internal exam this should be discussed with your Education Support Administrator to ensure that the adjustment is put in place.

When using a reader or scribe, students' exams will be in a private room (departmental sit) with a provision of 35% extra time to allow for the relay of information. The reader's role is to read back questions and answers as required; they will not make any corrections or amendments to answers. The scribe will write verbatim student responses onto the exam paper. They will correctly spell the words as dictated. They will not capitalise words or punctuate text if not dictated.

The standard format this adjustment takes is to convert a particular type of assessment, where a student is unable to undertake in a particular format and recommended adjustments are not sufficient.

All alternative assessments are subject to core competencies and learning outcomes associated with the module. As such, an alternative assessment may not always be possible and will require prior discussion. Please speak with your Wellbeing Officer(s) in the first instance regarding a request for an alternative assessment. This request needs to be made at least 6 weeks prior to the initial submission deadline.

It is possible to request a deferral of an examination to the Supplementary Assessment Period and Wellbeing Officers can advise on the process needed for this. The new code of practice on Taught Programmes and Assessments (PDF - 519KB) now covers deferral of assessment; under the new guidance students must submit requests for deferral of examinations in writing within 10 University working days of the notification of the final examination timetable.

Requests for deferral of other assessments should be made by the deadline advised by the School. Where the deferral is as a result of an exacerbation of an illness or condition not related to your disability, this is handled through the Extenuating Circumstances process and your Wellbeing Officer can advise on this.

If you are unwell during an exam then you should make an invigilator aware, seek medical advice or support (this will ensure that this is recorded appropriately) and contact your Wellbeing Officer within 24 hours of the exam if possible.

As with the deferral of exams, you should contact an invigilator immediately and seek medical advice or support where appropriate. This will ensure that this is recorded appropriately. You should then contact your Wellbeing Officer(s) within 24 hours of the examination who can advise on next steps and the appropriate form to complete, and any further information required.

In requesting this option, it is the case that the entire exam is set aside, not marked and no feedback on it produced. The exam sit will be moved to the next suitable exam period. Please note that it is not possible to request an exam deferral after exam results are published or to re-sit the exam if a pass mark has been gained. Please do ask your Wellbeing Officer(s) if in doubt.

The OSCE is a timed competency which means it needs to be completed within the timeframe expected for this to be completed in practice. The allocated timing for each element of the OSCE, i.e. the preparation time, assessment and follow-up questions, reflects this. As a result, no additional time is permitted for this assessment.