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Online@UT and University-wide Student Privacy Policy
The administrators of Online@UT (ITC and OIT) are making every effort to minimize the amount of personal information about students, faculty, and staff that resides on the system. Only the user's name, Net ID, and UT email address will be displayed.The system runs under SSL encryption to protect all information passing to and from the system.
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 the University of Tennessee's Privacy of Student Records Policy: http://registrar.tennessee.edu/records/privacy.shtml.
Hint: To limit access to your course site to only your students, disable guest access from the Control Panel of each course site.
This means that care needs to be taken that no student information is posted in a way that other members of the class can access it. (A simple mistake might be something like uploading an Excel spreadsheet with student names, UT-ID numbers, and grades.)
Warning: Safeguard private student information.