I learned the importance of staying clear from the FPCO investigating complaints and violations. This may be avoided by employees being compliant and receiving continued education on FERPA.
My main take away from this module is that student information is private to anyone who is not either the student themselves or an "eligible" person such as an employee of the institution. I also learned that certain employees are privy to certain information based on their role within an educational institution. Lastlly I learned the process for filing complaints and grievances when FERPA is belived to have been violated.
FERPA is important to the student. As faculty it is our due diligence to protect the students privacy and only access necessary information, ie grades from my class.
Very similar to HIPAA in medical. Student information is confidential and on a need to know basis. Just becaues you work at the school and have access to students information does not allow you to view their information.
Interesting that parent financials are protected information and held from students.
One thing I learned about FERPA in this module that I previously didn't know was to use a "Need to know basis" within our organization to determine which employee's truly need access to student confidential information to fullfill the responsiblities of their job.
I intend to abide by all FERPA regulations.
FERPA has taught me the importance of student privacy, and that a lot of information about a student cannot be disclosed.
FERPA training provided clarity on who is allowed to have access to student records versus whoom access should not be granted to. This is similar to the HIPAA rules that are in place for health care. As with all areas of maintaining confidentiality, access requires the evaluation of a "need to know."
I learned how FERPA protects the student's privacy and educational records.
This module is very informative. I didn't realize that an institution has up to 45 days to get a student his/her educational record. Additionally, I did not know that fines are not imposed for violations of FERPA. I feel like this module is going to help me better understand my role and the students rights related to the complete educational record. I am learning alot.
FERPA protects a student's personally identifyable informtion and cannot be released without specific written consent from that student. Not all employees have access to all parts of a student's records. Persons from outside the company may also have a legitimate interest in specific file information based on certain assignments. To avoid issues, it is best to refer any requests for information to the company's designated FERPA compliance personnel for a decision about dissimination.
Ditto to Daniel Falks' statement for general staff also.
Ferpa is important information to aware.
I have learned that student's personal and educational information needs to be protected. If released or shared with persons other than the student, this may be a violation of the laws pertaining to student privacy. Violations may be reported to the Department of Education with varying levels of consequences.
Reply to Judy Whitehill's post: I totally agree with you on gtis Judy and just to add my thought to yours' protecting privacy of a student is everyone's responsibility and must be safeguarded with due care
My main learning was to maintain student's privacy and do not give out any information that pertains to student's educational records without written permission even to his or her parents, spouse, brother(s), sister(s), or/and any relative. Just because they are directly related to the student, they do not have right or access to student's record unless authorized by the student and the authorization must be in written form.
RIGHT TO PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY..... FERPA is an important Law put in place to protect students' personal information that could be used against them or could subject them to discrimination, harassment, and personal danger. Thus as instructors, we have to be very careful with that information even when parents call to inquire about their kids' grades.
Ferpa provides protection to recordsand the privacy of those records.
Not everything requires protection.
