Managing Your Ventus Account

Logging In/Creating Your Account

1. Go to the Ventus Student Portal login page and click the green “Login to the Academic Accommodations Portal” button (Image below, left).
2. You will be redirected to a Carleton SSO login portal. Enter your MyCarletonOne login credential and “Sign In” (Image below, right)

3. If this is the first time you are logging into Ventus you will be prompted to create a new account. Click the green “YES, I would like to create a new account” button (see image below).

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Confirming/Adding Disability Information

The Profile tab of your Ventus Student Dashboard contains your personal and disability details.

To verify your personal and disability details…

1. In the top menu, select Profile.
2. Under the Personal Details and Disability Details headings, review your information to ensure accuracy. If you do discover inaccurate information:
   1. under “Disability Details” (for disability information and documentation that you have already shared with the PMC), contact your Disabilities Coordinator with details of what is missing or inaccurate.
   2. under “Personal Details”, make any necessary changes through Carleton Central.

To add disability information and/or documentation…

1. On the Profile tab, click the blue “Add disability information” button (on the right side of the screen opposite the Disability details heading).
2. In the “Add disability information” dialog box, select the Disability type, accessing the list of disabilities by clicking the down arrow.
3. Add details in the “describe your disability (optional)” text field.
4. In the “Is this condition permanent?” field, click the down arrow for the Yes/No options.
5. If you chose “No” to the question above and know how long the disability will last, enter the timeframe in the “Expected duration of disability (if known)” field. If you chose “Yes” to the question above, this field disappears.
6. In the “Documentation” field, click the down arrow for the options to attach documentation, fax it, mail it or drop it off. If you choose the “will attach file” option, the “Add attachment(s)” upload functionality appears.
7. Click the “Browse” button to find the documentation on your computer and then click the “Open” button.
8. If there are multiple files, click the blue “Add another file” button to add each individual file. If you make a mistake and add the wrong file, you can click the yellow “Remove” button to delete it and browse again.
9. Click the green “Add disability information” button.
10. Back on the profile page, verify that the disability and its supporting documentation has been added. It will be listed as “unconfirmed” until your coordinator receives and reviews the documentation. 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.

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Template Accommodations

Your template accommodations are the list of approved accommodations that are associated with your user profile and have been previously established in discussion with your PMC Coordinator.

When you log into Ventus for the first time, you should review the template accommodations available to you in each course to ensure that the accommodations you have used in the past (if you are a returning PMC student) or the accommodations that you established with your coordinator during your intake (for new PMC students) are available for you to select. Please note that unless included in your accommodations requests on a per course basis, template accommodations won’t be applied to your courses.

To review your template accommodations…

1. Navigate to the Accommodations tab; the default view of your Course List will reflect the current term.
2. Select each course that you are registered for and review the template accommodations available to you for each one.
3. Make note of any inaccuracies (i.e. usual accommodations missing or other accommodations added which hadn’t been part of the template in the past) and contact your Disabilities Coordinator with details of what is missing or inaccurate.

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Technical Support

Contact the ITS Service Desk if you are experiencing difficulty setting up your Ventus account.