Students with Peer Notetaking as an accommodation will manage requests for peer notetakers and access to uploaded notes in the Notetaking Services dashboard of the AIM accommodations portal.
Because not all classes have the same need for notetaking, it is important students carefully consider whether or not a peer notetaker is necessary based on the design, activity and expectations of the course. If the class is asynchronous/recorded, the instructor provides notes or the class is mostly activity-based, it is likely peer notetaking is not needed and should not be requested/confirmed.
Once a student has been approved for a peer notetaker as an accommodation and they have requested their accommodation letters for specific classes for the current semester, their classes will be added to the queue for the Notetaking Coordinator to review and confirm.
Note: If you do not need Notetaking Services for a specific class (i.e. seminar, research, online course), please uncheck Notetaking Services before confirming the accommodation letter for this course(s).
Once classes begin, students will receive a reminder email asking them to confirm whether or not they need a peer notetaker for each of their classes. Students can also confirm manually on the Notetaking Services menu in the AIM Student Portal.
After logging into the AIM Student Portal, click the Notetaking Services link on the bottom left of the page under the Accommodations tab.
Under the notetaking services page, click the View Requests to Confirm button under the Confirmation Needed Tab.
After navigating to the following page, select the “confirm” link to generate a new request.
We will not begin to recruit notetakers or provide access to previously-uploaded notes until a student Confirms their need.
After the request has been generated, a confirmation screen will appear across the top of the page.
Note: Please only request notetakers for the classes where there is a need. If you do not need notetaking services for specific classes due to the class format (i.e. online course, seminar, research, etc.), please do not confirm & let the Notetaking Coordinator ([email protected]) know so we can cancel your request.
While the Notetaking Coordinator is recruiting notetakers the student will see the number of requests awaiting confirmation under the Confirmation Needed tab on the Notetaking Services page.
To view the status of a request for each class, click the View Pending Request button under the No Notetaker Assigned tab.
Click the View All Requests link next to the List Requests: Courses with no notetaker assigned tab.
A list of courses without an assigned notetaker will appear, and the status of each request will be under the Status column.
Note: While a notetaker is being recruited, students can check the status of their request in the AIM portal. If you know a classmate who may be a good fit for this role, please encourage them to sign up as a peer notetaker at http://disability.tamu.edu/peernotetaker.
To view notes for your classes, log into the AIM Student Portal. On the Overview page, click Notetaking Services on the left-hand menu. Then, under the Available Notes tab, click View Notes tab to see the list of all available notes. Click the Download button to access the notes for each class.
Click the Download button to access the notes for each class.
Questions?
Contact the Notetaking Coordinator at [email protected] if you have any questions or concerns about requesting a peer notetaker. If a peer notetaker cannot be identified, the student should work with their Access Coordinator and the course instructor to identify alternative options for access to notetaking.