Create a way for Canvas to signal a student is "Confidential"

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Cancelled [Cancelled]

0% complete, updated on Mon 11/29/21 10:39 AM by Thomas Rider

Changed Status from Awaiting Resources to Cancelled.
Changed Health from On Hold to None.
Cancelled, all students are protected by FERPA

Details

Dates
Mon 11/29/21 - Mon 11/29/21
Acct/Dept
Registrar
Service
OIT Project Requests / Information Technology Project Requests
Type
Information Technology / Application Development
Health
None - No health has been set
Portfolio(s)
Classification
Student Services
Requirements
Please create a mechanism in Canvas that identifies, for faculty, that a student is "Confidential."
Created
Fri 9/11/20 8:23 AM
Modified
Mon 11/29/21 10:39 AM
Closed
Mon 11/29/21 10:39 AM

IT Project Custom Attributes

Division
Student Services
IT Project Type
Application Development/Support
Mandatory Justification
If mandatory please provide justification
Due Date: Fri. Dec. 4, 2020

FSW is legally and ethically obligated to protect the confidentiality of student records. Students have the right to request that directory information about them not be disclosed. Students who request exclusion of directory information are referred to as confidential. Students may request confidential status because of serious, even dangerous, circumstances. It is critical their absolute privacy be protected in every situation.

In carrying out our responsibilities at FSW, faculty and staff members use excluded directory information only as necessary to meet the direct educational needs of the student; faculty and staff members are not to reveal excluded directory information to anyone who does not need it to complete official college duties directly related to the student's educational needs. This restriction applies to all forms of communication, both written and verbal.

In Banner, when accessing a record for a student who has requested exclusion of directory information and is confidential, a yellow flag will pop up in the upper right corner of the Banner screen, indicating "Warning: Information about this person is confidential." Additionally, on every Banner screen near the student's name, faculty and staff members see "Confidential."

However, there is not a way to recognize a “Confidential” student in Canvas. This must be created for FSW’s faculty members to know if and when a student in a Canvas course is Confidential.
Number of Users Impacted
Please indicate the number of users impacted by this project.
All Confidential students and all FSW's faculty, both adjuncts and full-time.

Description

On their “FERPA Guidelines for Faculty and Staff” webpage (https://www.registrar.psu.edu/confidentiality/guidelines-faculty-staff/index.cfm), and under the subheading, “How to Check for Student Confidentiality,” PennState informs their staff and faculty that:

• Canvas class rosters flag those students who have requested that directory information not be released with an asterisk (*) on the People page.

FSW needs a way to indicate to faculty members that a student (in Canvas) is "Confidential." Please create a mechanism in Canvas that identifies, for faculty, that a student is "Confidential."

Systems Affected

  1. Canvas

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