What Does An Ada Compliant Class Mean For A Class Conducted Entirely On A Blackboard?
Location is USA (I think specific state is irrelevant for my question).
Nowadays universities are big on making the classes accessible and I fully agree with the philosophy and I have always cooperated with the ADA office.
This semester I have a student who seems to need more help than usual, and the student is approved for "slides in advance".
The only thing is, I'm a math professor and I conduct my class entirely on a blackboard. The student is demanding that I hand them over my personal notes (the ones that I don't share with anyone else and they're only for reminding me what I'm going to cover in class, sometimes they also have random embarrassing personal memos or ideas on the upcoming exam on them) and I'm wondering if this is covered under the appropriate law.
In lieu of my personal notes, I've offered - to find a peer notetaker (and one was found so the student gets the complete set of class notes after class) - to talk to the student after each class to tell them my plan for the next class (the student has never talked to me after class) - to allow the student to record my class or take photos as needed
But the student doesn't even respond to me anymore except to demand the notes time and again, and keeps the ADA officers on my case.
Is what I've offered inadequate? I think the student may have been vague about telling the ADA office about what my course entails, but it's literally me proving math theorems on board for three hours a week and sometimes I literally just walk into the class with a piece of chalk and talk for an hour because I know the material by heart. So if I were to follow the student's demands I would literally have to spend a lot of extra time producing notes that are not embarrassing.
I'm trying to understand if the ADA office has incomplete information about what my class is (the officer keeps talking about slides which I don't have at all), or if my class is actually noncompliant.
Thank you for your help.
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