Ventus Student Portal – Overview

Hi, my name is Billy, and I’m a PMC student at Carleton. Do you have a disability that impacts your learning? Have you ever thought that your true potential could be drawn out with just a little help? Ever wanted all your accommodation information in a single place? The Paul Menton Centre has worked in collaboration with the team at Scheduling and Exam Services to create a central interface where you can manage your accommodations, so that you continue to strive for success. Introducing Ventus!! Ventus is a tool which offers a student portal for everything related to academic accommodations – from helping students upload medical documentation, to requesting and reviewing your accommodations, and also updating any other necessary information. Rather than just keeping track of random emails, this allows you to organize all of your accommodation needs in a single user interface, with all
the information there. In Ventus, you can keep track of upcoming appointments, confirm participation in tests and in exams, and see locations of upcoming tests at the McIntyre Exam Centre sites. The McIntyre Exam Centre is where you’ll be writing your in-person tests and exams, and receiving your accommodations. This portal helps me, and I know it will help you too. Access Ventus at ventus.carleton.ca/student

Letters of Accommodation will no longer be emailed to your professors from your PMC coordinator. Instead, your professors will see your accommodations in the Ventus Faculty Portal once you have requested accommodations for their courses. Also, you can opt-out of receiving accommodations for a course. The choice is yours!

You can book an in-person or virtual appointment with your PMC coordinator through the PMC Front Desk at pmc@carleton.ca or 613-520-6608 to set up accommodations for each course at the beginning of each erm. However, you will still need to use Ventus to request your accommodations and confirm participation for each test or exam.

It is about choices. Ventus was designed to give students the options to participate or opt-out of accommodations for a quiz, test or exam. For example, you may decide to write quizzes with your class without accommodations but choose to write the final exam with accommodations at the McIntyre Exam Centre.

You will receive an email notification that accommodation arrangements have been made for your test or exam at the McIntyre Exam Centre (MEC). You will be required to login to Ventus Student Portal and confirm or decline your participation at least 10 calendar days before the exam. You can always use the Ventus Student Portal to view the accommodation details for each test or exam including exam type, location, scheduled date, start and end times, and status.