Family Education Rights and Privacy Act Tutorial
What are the obligations of a College employee under FERPA?
All College employees must safeguard student educational records. To avoid a FERPA violation, do NOT:
- Use student social security numbers in public posting of grades
- Leave graded tests in a stack for students to pick up by sorting through the papers of all students
- Circulate a printed class list with student name and ID numbers, or grades as an attendance roster.
- Discuss the progress of any student with anyone other than the student (including parents) without the consent of the student
- Provide anyone with lists of students enrolled in your classes for any commercial purpose
- Provide anyone with student schedules or assist anyone other than College employees in finding a student on campus
- Submit a student’s paper to an anti-plagiarism service without first removing the student’s name, ID number, or any other personally identifiable information