What rights does my student have regarding realtime captioning?
Your student has a right to request this service and have it supplied. At some schools, students are provided an ASCII disk with the notes on them. In other schools, no notes are provided to the student. You will have to check on the individual guidelines in your district. 7. What rights do I have regarding realtime captioning? Generally, if the student is supplied notes, they are the students personal notes and not to be sold or distributed to other students without prior approval or permission. You, the instructor, can simply request that the student keep their notes confidential. You may also authorize sharing of the notes, and in some instances instructors have requested copies of all realtime captioning notes for their own purposes (lecture and book preparation, etc.) In some jurisdictions instructors allow the notes to be sold to the class as a fundraiser to provide more services to the disabled students. Check your district policy and think it through for yourself to see how you
