Manage Student Support Settings with Precision and Clarity

What it does

The Student Support section in session settings has been reorganized into three clear subsections: Accommodations, Tools, and Individualised Accommodations. Instead of navigating a single mixed list of toggles, you now see each category separately with dropdown controls that give you more precise options for your whole class or individual students.

How it works

  1. Open your session settings and navigate to the Student Support section.

  2. Under Accommodations, use the dropdown for Read Aloud, Extra Time, or Hints to choose "Enabled for all students," "Disabled for all students," or "Based on student profiles" — which defers to each student's individual accommodation profile.

  3. Under Tools, set calculators (Desmos Scientific, Desmos Graphing, Four-Function) and notepads (Global, Sticky) using their own dropdowns. Calculator dropdowns include the "Based on student profiles" option; notepads offer enable/disable for all students only.

  4. Under Individualised Accommodations, use the master toggle to enable or disable all student-specific accommodations at once. Use the Edit button to update individual student profiles, and the Manage button to turn off specific non-universal accommodations (such as passage translations or answer choice reduction) for the session.

  5. Any accommodation you disable through Manage appears as a pill below the button so you can see your choices at a glance and re-enable with a single click.

Example in action

Imagine you are starting a 7th grade science session and need to make sure calculators follow each student's profile, but you want to enable Read Aloud for the whole class during today's session. With the new layout, you set Read Aloud to "Enabled for all students" in the Accommodations dropdown, confirm the Desmos Scientific Calculator is set to "Based on student profiles" in the Tools section, and check that no key Individualised Accommodations are turned off. Three clear actions, three separate sections — no scrolling past unrelated toggles to get there.