[LON-CAPA-users] Fw: REGISTRAR- FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) and MSU's Guidelines Governing Privacy and Release of Student Records
Gerd Kortemeyer
lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:26:22 -0400
Susan,
In LON-CAPA, you can also create hand-graded "problems" - in DOCS,
please insert a "Score Upload Form" (button in the right column).
Also see
http://help.loncapa.org/fom/cache/271.html
http://help.loncapa.org/fom/cache/279.html
- Gerd.
On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 08:41 AM, Susan Masten wrote:
> Given this....does anyone know if it is possible within LON-CAPA to
> take grades from hand-graded exams or homework assignments and input
> them into the system so that only the students have a record of their
> grades? In the past, I just posted them by PIDs within LON-CAPA (as
> pdf files). In CAPA we just created "problem sets" that were
> hand-graded and the score on the hand-graded problems were manually
> entered.
>
> Thanks
>
> Susan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Thomas F. Wolff
> To: eng_fac@egr.msu.edu ; eng_staff@egr.msu.edu
> Cc: Linda O. Stanford
> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 7:56 AM
> Subject: Fw: REGISTRAR- FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy
> Act) and MSU's Guidelines Governing Privacy and Release of Student
> Records
>
> Engineering Faculty and Staff,
>
> Please take a few minutes to review the memo from Dr. Stanford below
> and visit the very brief PowerPoint presentations at
>
> http://www.reg.msu.edu/ROInfo/Notices/PrivacyGuidelines.asp
>
> This material deals with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
> (FERPA).
>
> An important summary point is that
>
> * Information regarding students' performance (e.g. grades and scores)
> is a private matter between you and each individual student and such
> information must be handled in a way that ensures that others do not
> have access except on a "need to know" basis.
>
> A literal reading, supported by the University's PowerPoint
> presentations, is that you may not post grades in a manner that would
> permit students to determine others grades (including PIDs instead of
> names) and you may not leave student work in a public area (the floor
> outside your door) to be picked up.
>
> I realize these are long-standing practices for some, and can be
> problematical in large classes, but the reality is that the University
> and College will not be able to back you up in the event of a
> complaint, given the MSU guidelines. I will be pleased to
> facilitate discussions of alternatives.
>
> As group work is common and required by Engineering accreditation, I
> would interpret personal privacy issues to relate to the group as an
> entity in these cases.
>
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Linda O. Stanford
> To: REGISTRAR@list.msu.edu
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 4:54 PM
> Subject: REGISTRAR- FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)
> and MSU's Guidelines Governing Privacy and Release of Student Records
>
> To: RO (Registrar) Listserv
>
> The web FERPA 101 presentation and self-diagnostic quiz mentioned
> below (memo is also attached) are particularly focussed towards the
> experiences of faculty although the overall message applies to all MSU
> employees.
>
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>
>
> August 27, 2003
>
>
>
> To: Deans, Directors, and Chairs
>
>
>
> Fr: Linda O. Stanford, Assistant Provost for Academic Services
>
> and University Registrar
>
>
>
> Re: FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) and MSU’s
> Guidelines Governing Privacy and Release of Student Records
>
>
>
> Maintenance of the integrity of student educational records is
> everyone’s responsibility.
>
>
>
> MichiganStateUniversity’s policy governing privacy and release of
> student records is in compliance with the Federal Family Educational
> Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). As a means of complying with this act,
> the University has developed detailed Guidelines Governing Privacy and
> Release of Student Records.
>
>
>
> To share these policies and related practices with the MSU community,
> the Office of the Registrar prepared the following documents. Staff
> from Academic Services, Office of the Registrar, Client Advocacy
> Office and Office of the General Counsel contributed to the content of
> these documents.
>
>
>
> Go to: http://www.reg.msu.edu/ROInfo/Notices/PrivacyGuidelines.asp
>
>
>
> + FERPA 101
>
> PowerPoint presentation (or PDF file)
>
> Student Records: Institutional Responsibility and Student
> Rights
>
> What Every University Employee Should Know
>
>
>
> + FERPA 101
>
> Self-diagnostic Quiz
>
> Test your knowledge of: Student Records and the Family Educational
>
> Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and MSU’s Guidelines Governing
>
> Privacy and Release of Student Records
>
>
>
>
>
> Please share widely and send any comments to reg@msu.edu.
>
>
>
> If you want to schedule a PowerPoint presentation for a college or
> department, please contact Deb Mansel (355-5767, mansel@msu.edu).
>
>
>
> C: Angell, Banks, R.Cotter, DeZure, Gift, Klomparens, Simon,
> Youatt, Zayko
>