Cue Sheets
A cue sheet is an accommodation that students use during quizzes, tests, and exams. Cue sheets support students who have a documented health or learning disability that results in a significant memory deficit. They enable students to trigger information they have learned throughout the course in a testing situation.
Each cue sheet is unique to the individual student and will likely be meaningful only to them.
Cue sheets won’t help if you have not learned or understood the course material.
Cue sheets are not:
- Answer sheets or “cheat sheets”
- Substitutes for studying
- Open textbooks
- An exemption to learning the course material
Cue sheets might include the use of any of the following:
- Acronyms
- Names, dates
- Key terms, word lists
- Short phrases, definitions
- Pictures, diagrams
- Tables, charts, formulas
Cue sheets are not meant to provide students with answers. Any information that is to be remembered as part of an essential learning outcome should not be included on a cue sheet. For example, for a quiz, test, or exam that requires students to define key terms, cue sheets would not include word-for-word definitions but may include acronyms.
How cue sheet accommodations work
Students, course instructors, and accessibility advisors all have a role to play in the successful implementation of this accommodation.