{"id":23586,"date":"2025-02-13T13:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T18:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/tips-for-submitting-exams-to-the-caat-office\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T13:00:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T18:00:47","slug":"tips-for-submitting-exams-to-the-caat-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/tips-for-submitting-exams-to-the-caat-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Submitting Exams to the CAAT Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The CAAT office would like to share tips to make test submissions easier for faculty, students and staff.<\/p>\n<p>When an instructor is submitting an exam into the CAAT portal, please follow the guidelines below.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Submit the exam in its original file format.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Original file formats<\/strong>: allow our staff to remediate the exam for students who need a test read to them using our software (ex. Readspeaker\/Kurzweil).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Common file types<\/strong>: Word documents, PowerPoint, Excel, and LaTex files.<\/li>\n<li>PDFs files are not accessible and don&#8217;t allow our staff to remediate these exams easily.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Put page numbers on the exam (i.e., page 6 of 7) to help CAAT double check all the pages were printed successfully.<\/li>\n<li>Submit exams days in advance to give us time to remediate, if needed.\n<ul>\n<li>Our current CAAT software allows instructors to upload exams without needing a student&#8217;s request. Essentially, you can upload an entire semester&#8217;s worth of exams now without needing to wait for the student.<\/li>\n<li>Instructors can edit any uploads.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>If you are creating a math or science exam, you may use MathType\/ChemType to create 100% accessible equations. (Please contact <a href=\"mailto:r.holland@hvcc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rachel Holland<\/a> to get training or access to the software.)<\/li>\n<li>If you are using Word, use the built-in bullet points or numbering.<\/li>\n<li>If you have images, make sure there is alternative text to describe the image.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you have any questions, feel free to contact <a href=\"mailto:r.holland@hvcc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rachel Holland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Have a CAAT-tastic day!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:00:47 +0000 by\u00a0r.holland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The CAAT office would like to share tips to make test submissions easier for faculty, students and staff. When&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}