Disability Services Portal Transition

Disability Services is transitioning from Accommodate to AIM, our new student-facing accommodation management system.

Important Dates

  • Last day to access Accommodate: Sunday, Aug. 2
  • System downtime: Monday, Aug. 3 -Tuesday, Aug. 4
  • First day to access AIM: Wednesday, Aug. 5

During the transition, students will not have access to either the Accommodate Portal or AIM on Monday, Aug. 3-Tuesday, Aug. 4

AIM allows students to:

  • Manage accommodation letters
  • Submit accommodation requests
  • Request appointments with your Access Coordinator once you have completed the registration process
  • Access accommodation-related services and resources

AIM Overview: Faculty

AIM is a tool that enables the Disability Services office to manage accommodation requests and implementation. The tool features both student and faculty portals.

How to access AIM View accommodation letters How to Download a List of Enrolled Students Who Have Accommodations in Your Courses View and Complete Flex Plan Requests
How to access AIM

How to access AIM

Step 1: Access

Step 2: Select “Faculty” under “What type of user are you?”

Step 3: Once you sign in, ensure that you are in a private location select “Continue to View Student Accommodations”

Screenshot of the Access Policy seen when first entering AIM. The Access Policy has the following sections: FERPA (Confidentiality statement), Faculty Reminders, Important Note, and a Continue to View Student Accommodations button at the bottom.

View accommodation letters

Step 1: Access the AIM Portal

Step 2: Select “Faculty” under “What type of user are you?”

Step 3: Once you sign in, ensure that you are in a private location select “Continue to View Student Accommodations”

Screenshot of the Access Policy seen when first entering AIM. The Access Policy has the following sections: FERPA (Confidentiality statement), Faculty Reminders, Important Note, and a Continue to View Student Accommodations button at the bottom.

Step 4: Select “View” under “Students Who Requested Accommodations”. Additionally, you may select “PDF” to download a PDF copy of the letter.

Screenshot of the Students Who Requested Accommodations section of the faculty portal. Sections include View, PDF, CRN, Subject, Course, Section, Student's Full Name, Status, Request Date, List Updated, Flex Plane, Note-taking Services, E-text, Extended Time 1.5x on Exams or.

You may use the “Refine Search or List Saved Queries” function to easily filter by course, student, and accommodation.

How to Download a List of Enrolled Students Who Have Accommodations in Your Courses

Step 1: Access the AIM Portal

Step 2: Select “Faculty” under “What type of user are you?”

Step 3: Once you sign in, ensure that you are in a private location select “Continue to View Student Accommodations”

Screenshot of the Access Policy seen when first entering AIM. The Access Policy has the following sections: FERPA (Confidentiality statement), Faculty Reminders, Important Note, and a Continue to View Student Accommodations button at the bottom.

Step 4: Select the “Export Data: Students” drop-down menu

Screenshot of the Export Data: Students section of the faculty tab. An important note reads The system will use the results in the table below for the Export Data output. Please use the Refine Search section if you need to customize the result. There is an Export Accommodations Requests button at the bottom of the tile.

Step 5: Select “Export Accommodation Requests” to export a list of all requested accommodations by student and course

View and Complete Flex Plan Requests

Step 1: Access AIM Portal

Step 2: Select “Faculty” under “What type of user are you?”

Step 3: Once you sign in, ensure that you are in a private location select “Continue to View Student Accommodations”

Screenshot of the Access Policy seen when first entering AIM. The Access Policy has the following sections: FERPA (Confidentiality statement), Faculty Reminders, Important Note, and a Continue to View Student Accommodations button at the bottom.

Step 4: Select “Flex Plan”

Overview, Flex Plan, Notetaking Services

Step 5: Select “View” to initiate the Flex Plan review. Note: Flex Plans are organized by course, not by specific student request

View

Step 6: Complete the List of Questions tile

Screenshot of List of Questions screen

Step 7: Once completed, select “Initiate and Request Review”. Note: If you instruct multiple sections of the same course, select “Apply to all classes with the same course subject and course number in the same term” to automatically complete the Flex Plan Request Form those courses.

Screenshot of form submission, which check box asking "Apply to all classes with the same course subject and course number in the same term"

Step 8: The Disability Services team will review your response and notify you via email once your Flex Plan has been approved. You may view approved Flex Plans by selecting “View”

View status completed

You may view students with approved Flex Plans under the “Student Request” tile

Screenshot of completed student request

Contact Us

Phone:303-492-8671
Fax:303-492-5601
Email:dsinfo@colorado.edu

N200 Center for Community
107 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0107

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