Better notes, any student
The skill is capturing structure and cues, not transcribing. A coach reviews a set of your real notes and shows you what to cut and what to add, and the workshops let you practise a method on live material.
Note-taking accommodations
If a disability makes it hard to write and listen at once, Accessibility Services can arrange a vetted peer note-taker for your section, or authorize recording plus a transcription tool. Instructors are notified without disclosing your diagnosis.
In and around Porter Falls
Support at Porter is deliberately clustered on the first two levels of Halvorsen Library so a student can move from one kind of help to another without leaving the building or re-explaining the situation. Walk-in hours run late Monday through Thursday during the semester, and everything can also be booked through MyPorter.
The practical details
For anyone: Workshops and one-on-one help on methods — Cornell, outline, sketchnotes, and note-taking from slides versus lecture. As an accommodation: A peer note-taker or access to recording and transcription tools, arranged through Accessibility Services. Tech: Guidance on smartpens, recording apps, and live-captioning that turns speech into searchable text. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Student Success Center (Halvorsen Library, Level 1). Call (715) 555–0170 or email success@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.