Accommodation Letters
DASS Accommodation Letters are not delivered to you in hardcopy by DASS staff members or students. Instead, students request their letters from DASS, we review their requests, and upon approval, we make the letters available in your DASS Link account. DASS Link will alert you by email when a student requests accommodations in your class, but you can only access their Accommodation Letters via your DASS Link account where the letters can be viewed or printed.
You can find your students' current accommodation letters on your DASS Link Home Screen. View them from here. Once viewed, they can be found from the left side menu under Accommodation Letters. You can review, sort, and print the letters from there.
How to View Students' Accommodation Letters
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Once you're logged in to DASS Link, select Accommodation Letters from the menu on the left.
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On the Accommodation Letters page, you'll see a list of the students who have requested that accommodations be implemented in your class. You can sort the list by semester and/or course. Type the semester and course into the appropriate fields (on top of the list) and click the blue Apply Search button.
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Select any student's letter to view it. Letters can be labeled DASS Accommodation Letter, DASS Semester Request Letter, Supplemental Request Decision-Approved. Regardless of the label, these letters and the procedures around them are the same. Read "Accessing a Student's Accommodation Letter" below for more details.
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The letters are stored on DASS Link, but if you wish, you can use the buttons on this page (Accessibility Letter) to Save it directly to your device, Generate a PDF of the letter, or Print a hardcopy of it.
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Follow the instructions on the letter to contact DASS if you have any questions or concerns about the student's accommodations and how they should be implemented in your class.
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DASS recommends electronically signing the letter when you and the student have finalized arrangements to implement his/her accommodations in your class. For more details, please see "Signing the Accommodation Letter" and "Discussion with the Student" below.
The Accommodation Letters Page
Located in the menu on the left side of your DASS Link Homepage, the Accommodation Letters tab is the most convenient way to see and sort through the Accommodation Letters of students who are enrolled in the class or classes you're leading this semester. On the Accommodation Letters page, you will see a list of all of the students in your classes who have requested accommodations.
Simply click DASS Accommodation Letter or DASS Semester Request Letter to see that student's letter.
You might be wondering why the letters are labeled in two different ways. New DASS students' letters are labeled DASS Accommodation Letter. This means that the student is new to DASS and using their accommodations for the first time at SMU. Continuing DASS students' letters are labeled DASS Semester Request Letter. This denotes a DASS student who has used accommodations at SMU before and renewed the accommodations for the current semester. Other than the label, these letters and the procedures around them are the same. Under the type of letter, you will see the DASS student's name, your course in which they're enrolled, and when the letter was posted to your DASS Link account.
NOTE: From time to time, you may see a letter titled Supplemental Request Decision-Approved. In this case, a student with accommodations in your class has requested and been approved for a new accommodation. The new accommodation is listed in the letter and should be implemented along with the student's other accommodations (for which you've already received a letter).