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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am also a professor, and in this case, I would sit down with her and the syllabus and ask the questions you've asked here.

You are actually not required by law to provide the accommodations if they are not reasonable in terms of your coursework. This also means that you and she can think through how to make the accommodations work for your course. Or, you can just give her the accommodations and not make how they affect her ability to complete the course your problem.

However, I have come around to the view that it's not a big deal to make my course work for students who need to do it at a slightly different pace. So, I would give her all of the Monday assignments up front, and tell her that while she has the 1-week extension on each of them before she receives late penalties, that you strongly suggest she try to complete them sooner for exactly the reason you describe. That way, at the end, when she gets the exam early, she won't necessarily be doubling up on work.

If your exam is open book (which it must be since students are taking it home), even if it is "doubling up," since the exam is presumably review, and 90% of the coursework will have been completed by that point, she still gets the extra time to break the assignment into pieces, or have a mental issue of a day or two where she can't work, or end up in the hospital for breathing treatments, or whatever it is that interrupts her ability to get work done. That additional time may make it more likely she'll complete enough of the exam to pass, even if the last 10% of the coursework has to get done simultaneously.[/quote]
Here’s the answer. [/quote]

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