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Services for Students with Disabilities

Taping Lectures

Bringing a tape recorder to class is useful for many students. You will need to notify instructors if you wish to tape their lectures. Occasionally an instructor may be reluctant to let you tape record a class. This is the instructor’s right unless you have established eligibility through the office of Services for Students with Disabilities to tape classes as a reasonable accommodation based on disability. In such cases, the instructor may require you to sign a waiver agreeing that you will:
  • only use the taped material as an aid to study for that course
  • only use tapes provided by the office for Students with Disabilities
  • not make copies of them
  • return the tapes to SSD when you have completed the course

When such tapes are made as an accommodation for a disability, they are the sole property of Central Oregon Community College’s SSD office.