Media Suite for Video Tutorials-20250822_154735-Meeting Recording 

August 22, 2025, 6:47PM 

6m 4s 

 
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Hello, my name is Esther and I'm the exam accommodations admin here at the Fred Smitters Centre for student accessibility. Today I'm happy to introduce to you accommodate. It's a new platform that the Fred Smitters has and we will show you how to book a test in very simple setups. 
Accommodate is a centralised platform that is designed to help students manage every aspect of your academic accommodations and through the system you can securely book tests and exams, access your accommodation letters and monitor the status of your request. 
All in one convenient location, so there is no longer going back to emails to automated replies. Checking if you're booking successful or not. That is all in the past. So we really hope that you can use accommodate because accommodate is really designed to simplify all your admin test booking processes. 
Reduce the speed of multiple communications, which can be very confusing, so we encourage everyone, all students, to use accommodate to manage your test bookings. Today I'm going to show you how to do that. 
So this is how accommodate looks like and how you access to it. So first of all you will have to go to Fred Smithers stand centre for students website 
Or upload tests and you click on this button and obviously you bring it to this page which type of user you are. So you click student so once you click student, you're going to log in with your credentials and we're successfully logged in. This is how the page will look like. 
Here you will click book a test and as you can see when I meant just now about your accommodation letters, everything is here. Once I'm not gonna focus on that. I'm gonna focus on booking a test. So click book a test. 
And the moment click book a test you're going to see Scroll down and you click new booking request. So click on new booking request and you see three questions. Very simple steps. Select your available course and this student. 
We'll select introduction to learning, so click on the course that you have for the semester itself and click next. Now you will see that optional philtres here. Let's check optional philtres. Now optional philtres are something that you can choose to do, or you choose not to do. It's totally up to you. 
The building do not alter this one second question, override course length. Now if your exam is shorter than the class time, which is 75 minutes. Let's say your exam is 30 minutes. You click yes and then the length of time that the class received. 
The regular exam time will be 30 minutes, so click on that and if it's not final exam, just say no, it's not final exam if it's yes, you can just click and just ignore all these things you click next, you're gonna see your specific dates. 
That is available for you to book. These ones are blocked out because it's passed to you, but if you so you can click on this 129 and you move on to the third question, select space. So click on select space, Scroll down when does your test start. 
For example, you test such a 4:00 PM, so click on request. 
You can see that here there's times available, so you need to be fast or you know what, once you get your syllabus quickly put in your test. So click request and you can see the summary of all your test information testing room, the FSD Test Centre. 
Of course, this is the course bit of exam, so it can say admit to it says Test online. If it's yes, you can click yes. If it's no, just click no. Now one word. One note is that if your test is online and your Prof wants you to do it remotely at your home. 
You do not need to submit this request. You can totally close the screen and don't do it. But if you your test is online you need to do a computer and you need to be infiltrated in class. In class in person please submit this request. 
Now testing date, testing time length, so we will adjust accordingly. So it'll be 45 minutes based on your time and a half accommodation. But you start 4:00 PM and you end at 4:45. Any notes you can say I would need a. 
White noise machine. 
Thanks. So can you put in the notes that you need acknowledge acknowledge and you submit request and once you submit it you can see this screen banner here your test routing request has been submitted and here pending. 
Now pending means that it will go to us with the exam admin for us to approve. So with that sense you can't wait, you know, give us 24 hours to approve and when it's being approved, you can see that. 
This will be what it is when it once is approved, you will see from pending it will move over to approve booking request with FSE Centre. That means this is completed and we are all ready for you to come in to do the test. 
So that is how it works, but with simple steps we really hope that you will take advantage of the ease and the convenience of accommodate and booking your tests early at least two weeks in advance. If you have any questions or face any problems in booking. 
Please reach out to FSC exam at smear.ca or alternatively you can walk into our FSC Centre and we can help you with all your queries. Thank you. 

 
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