A university for everyone

1,722

students with disabilities enrolled for academic year 2019/2020 The UOC's educational model promotes equal opportunities in access to education. It seeks to guarantee access to education for people with functional diversity.

Holding final tests or assessment online has benefited students with disabilities. It provided an effective solution for people with mobility issues, many of whom have found that taking tests in a familiar environment helped them concentrate during assessment periods. However, the Student Support Service has kept working hard to help people with functional diversity take their tests by, for example, adapting test times to particular circumstances and working on test questions if necessary (for example, for visually impaired people).

Teaching adaptations

At the beginning of each semester, students are given time to request adaptations to the teaching or the learning resources in order to help them adjust to the pace, or to replace an oral task with a written adaptation in language courses. The UOC Library creates resources using the markup language XML to make them available in multiple formats, such as DAISY for audiobooks, which helps people with visual impairments, enabling them to work with audio files instead of written texts, or PDF, which enables text to be easily run through text-to-speech converters.