Exam Services Information for Faculty

Log onto the Faculty Disability Portal

Instructors may have students enrolled in their courses who need disability-related testing accommodations. The Center for Disability Resources (CDR) assists instructors in administering exams to students through a test proctoring service available at CDR.

Instructors are notified via email that a student has signed up to take an exam in the CDR Testing Center.  You should then go into the Faculty Disability Portal to:

  1. Review the test sign-up
  2. Approve the sign up
  3. Upload your exam

Instructors have two ways to provide CDR with their exams:

  1. Upload to the Faculty Disability Portal (accessible via  MySlice)
  2. Drop-off exams in-person 

Please be advised that our final seating time from Monday-Thursday is 5:15pm, with a closing time of 8pm, while our final seating time on Fridays is 2:15pm, with a closing time of 5pm. If your exam will end outside of our closing times, you must arrange for the student to begin the exam early enough for their time to be complete before we close. If these times absolutely cannot work for your exam, please contact the CDR Testing Center (number below).

Students with disabilities are entitled to the same access as their non-disabled peers. This includes, but is not limited to, opportunities to ask questions  during exams. Students accessing accommodations through CDR do not forfeit opportunities that their non-disabled peers have. We ask that faculty kindly provide their own or their TA’s contact information (cell phone or monitored email address) for this purpose.

For general information, please contact our front desk at 315.443.4498. For urgent exam situations, please contact the CDR Testing Center at 315.443.3606/4212 .

Reminder: Instructors must include the senate approved syllabus statement regarding Student’s with Disabilities in their syllabi.

About Student Responsibilities: 

It can be helpful for faculty to be aware of the student’s responsibilities and process.  

  1.  Students requesting exam accommodations must be registered with CDR. 
  2. Instructors and students should discuss whether exams will be taken in class or administered by CDR and make the appropriate arrangements for this at the beginning of the semester. 
  3. Faculty can view students’ Accommodation Letters in the Faculty Disability Portal.
  4. Students with testing accommodations are encouraged to sign up for all their exams at the beginning of the semester.
  5. Students are required to sign up at least 48 hours ahead of the scheduled exam in order to reserve a place in our Testing Center. Within 48 hours of a given exam, students will be unable to sign up/reserve a place.
  6. Student Exam signups must coincide with the scheduled day/time of the class. If an alternate exam time is necessary due to course conflicts that impact their test accommodations (back to back classes, for instance), students will need to contact instructors for approval of the alternate time. Once informally approved, instructors should formally approve the student’s sign-up in the Faculty Disability Portal. Alternatively, students can forward email verification of instructor approval to CDR exams.

Need help?
Review the Faculty Portal Guide.

Contact Exams at cdrexams@syr.edu or (315) 443-3606