Dashboard: Profile Tab

Welcome to the Ventus training for PMC students participating in our Student User Experience Assessment for the Winter 2022 semester. In this video, we will cover how to complete the first task or step of the assessment. Remember that for this assessment, we are testing the software, and not you. Also, you do not need to worry about anything you enter for this assessment having any effect on your personal profile or actual accommodations with the PMC during this term. So, let’s start by looking at how to complete Step 1 of the assessment – Verifying Personal and Disability Information in the Ventus student portal.

Logging in to the Ventus student portal brings you to the Ventus dashboard where you can access a number of Ventus functions, though for this user experience assessment, we will be asking you to work with only a few Ventus functions. Please note that, if this is your first time accessing the portal, you may notice a banner notification to complete an intake questionnaire – do not complete this function at the moment as we will ask you to do this later in the assessment.
To review and validate your personal information in your profile, select Profile from the top menu.

Review your information under the Personal Details and Disability Details headings to ensure accuracy. If details are missing or inaccurate, please bring this up with the PMC Coordinator who is helping us with this User Experience Assessment – Somei Tam. For the purposes of this assessment, please don’t email your usual coordinator, since they aren’t yet part of the test.

Thanks for completing Step 1 of this User Experience Assessment – Checking that personal and disability details are correct. Thank you again for your time and valuable input into getting this tool ready for all PMC students

Welcome to the next step in our Ventus Student User Experience Assessment for the Winter 2022 semester. In this video, we will cover how to complete step 2 of the assessment – Adding a Disability and Supporting Documentation. If, for example, your disability had changed, was not listed for some reason, or a new disability has occurred since last semester, Ventus allows you to change or update this information.

For this assessment, we ask you to test the functionality by adding a temporary disability and its documentation. To complete this step, we ask you to quickly create and save a Word doc that contains just your name and student number and have it ready to upload.

On the Profile tab, you can add disability information by clicking the blue “Add disability information” button (on the right side of the screen opposite the Disability details heading). This opens the “Add disability information” dialog box.

In this dialog box, you can select the Disability type, accessing the list of disabilities by clicking the down arrow. For this assessment, choose “Mobility Impairment”.
Add details in the “describe disability (optional)” text field by typing “Broken Arm”.

You would then answer the “Is this condition permanent?” question by clicking the down arrow and selecting “Yes” or “No”. For this assessment, you will answer “No” to indicate that it is not a permanent disability.

Then enter information in the “Expected duration of disability (if known)” text field, typing “6-8 weeks healing”.

Then using the Word doc that you created (with your name and student number only) as the documentation to support this disability, click the down arrow next to the “Documentation” field and choose the “will attach file” option and the upload functionality will appear. Click the “Browse” button to find the Word doc you created on your computer.

Note that if you happen to select the wrong document, you can simply hit the Remove button to delete it and browse again.

Note that if you have more than one document to support your disability, then you would click the blue “Add another file” button and another browse dialog box would appear (but this is not required for this assessment).

When the documentation has been added, click the green “Add disability information” button.

This would bring you back to the profile page where you can see that the disability and its supporting documentation has been added. Note that if you had forgotten to upload supporting documentation, you can still add it afterwards by clicking the blue “add attachments” button next to that listed disability.

Now, you’ll see that under the Disability details, the disability is listed as “unconfirmed” until your coordinator receives and reviews the documentation.

Thanks for completing Step 2 of this User Experience Assessment – Adding a Disability and Supporting Documentation. Thank you again for your time and valuable input into getting this tool ready for all PMC students.