Online Notetaker Training

Thank you for your willingness to take class notes for a student who needs a volunteer notetaker. This online training program will help you understand the purpose of volunteer note-taking services, your responsibilities as a volunteer notetaker, and provide you with strategies for taking effective notes. Please complete these training modules as soon as possible so you can begin your note-taking assignment.

INTRODUCTION

The training program contains three modules:

• Module One: Why Provide Note-taking Services?
• Module Two: Code of Ethics
• Module Three: Taking Good Notes

Each module begins with a lecture and a brief quiz. You must complete the quiz before proceeding to the next module. Unfortunately, the system cannot save your answers until you have completed each module quiz. If you must stop the quiz, you will have to retake the quiz.

After completing all three modules, complete the volunteer notetaker application and forward it to the note-taking coordinator at Disability Services. You will then be contacted with name of the student for whom you are taking notes along with additional information regarding the gift certificate that will be issued to you at the end of semester in recognition of your service.

The note-taking coordinator will also email the student with your name, email address, and phone number. The student will be instructed to contact you to make arrangements for getting the notes from you.

At the end of the semester, the notetaker coordinator will notify you by email that your gift certificate is available with the campus bookstore at the University Memorial Center. For more information, call Customer Service at the bookstore at 303-492-3457 or 800-255-9168.

There are three ways of taking notes for someone else. You can use carbonless notetaking paper available from the Disability Services office. You can photocopy your notes or you can take notes on your laptop and email them to your student.

Carbonless note-taking paper is provided, at no cost to you, by Disability Services. The office is located in Center for Community N200, and is open Monday through Friday, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. To use this paper, simply take your notes on the top sheet and provide the white sheet to the student.

If you experience technical problems with this training program, please email karen.boyd@colorado.edu with as much detailed information as possible and the error message you received.

Click here to begin Module One: Why Provide Note-taking Services?