Test Proctoring & Alternative Formatting
Information for Test Proctoring
The Disability and Accessibility Services (DAS) office may provide test accommodations for students registered with our office. This may mean you qualify to use our space for a distraction reduced testing area or for extended testing time.
Please note our email address: [email protected]
If you are registered with the DAS office this term and have been provided testing accommodations which your professor cannot provide for you.
We are located at 4901 Evergreen Road. Our office is on the second floor in room 2170 Renick University Center.
Our testing office hours are 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday, excluding holidays and university recognized study days.
All exam requests require ONE WEEK (7 day) advance notice with the exception for final exams which will be due earlier than one week.
For example: you have an exam next Friday you must request proctoring the Friday before.
If you are registered this term, you will need to follow the Student Test Proctoring Request Guide to send in your request at least one week in advance for every in-person course your professor cannot provide your accommodations for.
- For Final Exam Requests we do ask for more advance notice for these requests. Check out our DAS Final Exam Announcement webpage for due date and time block details.
You will fill out a separate test request using this DAS Test Proctoring Request form for each exam/quiz you wish to take with our office. Within the secure form you will choose your course, give a test name, enter the date of the exam with DAS office, the start time with DAS, tell us how long the class receives for the exam (Time class receives) and select at least one accommodation needed during your exam. The list will pull your available testing accommodations for this term.
For online courses remind your professors in advance that your additional time is built within those online quizzes and exams (at least 3 days in advance). You will not submit a test request with our office for online exams.
Read our Day of Exam Process and Procedures for the policies students adhere to while taking exams at the Disability & Accessibility Services office.
In accordance with our Day of Exam Process and Procedures registered students will need to sign and return the DAS Test Proctoring Policy Agreement form once to our office.
Check out our test proctoring information section in our Faculty Resources webpage for this information.
You can call our office at 313-593-5310 or email us at [email protected].
Read this terms Final Exam Announcement for details on how to make test requests within our office's final exam time blocks.
For Fall 2026 final exam requests are due on Tuesday, December 1st
- Thursday, December 10
- Friday, December 11
- Monday, December 14
- Tuesday, December 15
- Wednesday, December 16
If you have any questions contact our office at [email protected].
DAS Test Proctoring Request Tutorial
Alternative Formatting Process
Alternative Media is the term applied to required course material such as textbooks, electronic documents, and other printed materials which the student needs converted into an accessible format, either a PDF or word document. Students with documented disabilities such as a visual impairment, reading or other learning disability, attention deficit disorder, or physical disability, which makes reading and understanding standard print difficult or impossible, may be eligible for an accommodation of alternative text format.
Eligible students must first be registered with our Disability and Accessibility Services on campus. Approval for alternative text formats is based on your interactive process meeting with our Disability and Accessibility Services Coordinator and proper medical documentation.
Students must request from the Disability and Accessibility Services office all reading materials needed for classes each semester.
- Purchase their own copy (copies) of the books needed.
- Submit the Alternative Book Format Request Form by emailing it to [email protected] along with a copy of your book receipt(s).
- Provide a copy of your syllabus for each course requiring alternative formats.
- Next staff will get back to you and let you know if you need to bring your physical book(s) to 2170 Renick University Center.
- Share with the Disability and Accessibility Services office any inaccessible course materials (articles, pdfs, PowerPoints) that need to be converted to a text format.
The DAS office will verify that students who request alternative formats are eligible to receive the accommodation.
Once verified the DAS office will acquire or create an alternative format of the book(s) requested.
- Locate or procure an alternative format from the book publisher
- If DAS cannot obtain one, we send your physical book out to have the spine removed
- Scan your physical book to create PDF files. (Note our PDF’s do not provide read out loud capabilities)
- Rebind student’s textbook and notify them their book(s) are available for pick up.
- Create Microsoft Word documents for the textbook files we created if requested so they can read aloud to students.
- Send to student sections needed through their umich email and/or umich M+ Google Drive account based off class syllabi schedule.
Securing alternative formats is often time-consuming. All requested materials are processed on a first-come first-serve basis. Therefore, students who use alternative media are encouraged to make alternate format requests prior to the beginning of the semester. This may require communicating with professors before the start of classes.
NOTE: Rented textbooks are accepted for alternative formatting requests, however be aware you will not be able to return the book(s) to the University of Michigan Dearborn bookstore or to other sources if we have to cut and scan the textbooks.
Adaptive Equipment on Campus
The following is a list of some of the adaptive technology available on the campus:
Mardigian Library - One station on the ground floor computers is dedicated for use by persons with disabilities. It has an adjustable stand with screen enlarger and screen reader software.
College of Business Labs (FCS) - The computer labs for Business students each have one computer with screen enlarger and screen reader software.
CASL Building - Computer labs for student use have Zoom Text, a screen enlarger software available in all labs.