We're excited to share Symplicity's most recent Accommodate release with you and your team. Depending on your region, this product may be referred to as 'Access.' However, the exciting new features apply regardless of the slight difference in product name. Based on your feedback, we focused on the tools your office needs to enhance data visualization, streamline testing, and support multi-campus environments. Here's how these new features will transform services for your students.
Time Interval Charts: See Your Data Come to Life
Imagine being able to spot trends in your accommodation requests at a glance. With our new Time Interval Chart Summaries, your team can:
- Visualize your data across multiple timeframes (daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly) to identify patterns unique to your campus
- Add dimensions to your charts using picklist fields to compare different aspects of your services
- Make informed decisions about staffing and resources based on your historical data
- Prepare proactively for your peak periods instead of reacting to sudden increases in demand
Now your office can transition from constantly responding to immediate needs to anticipating what's coming. Your team will be able to allocate resources more strategically, and your students will experience shorter wait times during those busy periods that previously stretched your staff thin.
Start/Stop Timer: Precision Testing That Works for You
If your institution manages exam accommodations, you'll appreciate our new start/stop timer functionality that gives your team:
- Accurate tracking of exam times to ensure your students receive exactly the accommodations they're entitled to
- Visual status indicators that help your proctors manage multiple exam appointments efficiently
- Simplified reporting for your compliance documentation needs
- Centralized management of multiple students' exam times from a single view
This tool will allow your exam accommodated students their full allotted time without confusion or interruptions, creating a testing environment where they can focus entirely on demonstrating their knowledge. Meanwhile, your staff will spend less time on manual tracking and more time providing meaningful support.
Multi-Campus Support: Coordinated Service Across Your Locations
For those of you managing accessibility services across multiple locations, our new multi-campus features will transform how your team works. You can now track each student’s home campus, identify course campus locations, and filter accessibility requests by campus—not to mention generate comprehensive reports that include campus-specific data.
With the new ‘Home Campus’ on the Student Profile and the new ‘Course Campus’ field on the class schedule view, your staff will coordinate services seamlessly across campuses, ensuring consistent support regardless of where courses are held. Your administration will gain clearer insight into service delivery across your entire institution, helping you identify and address any campus-specific challenges.
General Enhancements: The Small But Mighty Changes Your Team Will Love
We've also included several improvements that will make your daily operations smoother:
- Case Status tracking in the accessibility request gives your team better visibility into request progress
- Test Room Booking history tab added into the Accessibility Request for quicker access
- Improved test room booking in the student interface with text wrapping gives your students additional information on the location of the booking
- Enhanced instructor search options in the Course Catalog help your team manage course information more efficiently
Your staff will notice how these refinements reduce administrative friction, creating a more intuitive system that lets them focus on what matters most—supporting your students.
What This Means for You and Your Students
With Accommodate 7.1, your team will save valuable time, deliver more better testing experiences, and provide consistent services across all your campus locations.
Your students will enjoy faster response times, more consistent support, and a reduced administrative burden when requesting and utilizing accommodations—ultimately creating a more accessible educational environment at your institution.
We're committed to helping your team provide exceptional accessibility services, and we believe these enhancements will make a real difference in your daily operations and student outcomes.
