Privacy Policies:
University and Blackboard-specific policies are relevant to Blackboard users because they speak to:
- Possible abuse of the system that could affect privacy and access.
- Rights of the authors of materials placed on Blackboard.
- Retention and safeguarding of information placed on the system.
Blackboard System and Administration:
The administrators of Blackboard (Office of Technology for Education and Computing Services) make every effort to minimize the amount of personal information about students and faculty that resides on the system. Only a user's name, Andrew ID, and an internal CMU ID (not the user's social security number) is all that is required.
The system is run under SSL encryption to protect all information passing to and from the system.
Student Privacy Policy (FERPA):
Faculty and students using the system should be careful to do nothing that might compromise the privacy of users. Faculty should familiarize themselves with the degree of class and public access that various choices in the Control Panel will permit. Specifically, please recognize that granting guest access will allow non-enrolled students access to many of the course materials.
All information posted should conform to Carnegie Mellon's Student Privacy Policy:
http://www.cmu.edu/policies/documents/StPrivacy.html
Students' Rights to Privacy Guidelines published by Enrollment Services:
http://www.cmu.edu/hub/privacy.html This means that care needs to be taken that no student information is posted in a way that others members of the class can access it. (A simple mistake might be something like putting up an Excel spreadsheet with student names, id numbers, and grades.)
Warning: Safeguard private student information.
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