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From: nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Liber)
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Subject: Re: Posting grades
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Date: 22 Dec 88 02:29:06 GMT
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In article <5734@polya.Stanford.EDU> dkeisen@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) writes:

>The way I'll be handling it from now on is that I will require my
>students to get computer accounts to handle communication between me
>and them (both collective things like changes in a problem set and
>individual things like setting up appointments) and I will email each
>student her/his grade at the end of the term.

This still may not be legal.  Since sysadmins also have access to these
accounts, and many of them at universities are students, you may still
be violating the privacy act.

One method that works for posting grades is to let each student pick a
secret name/word at the beginning of the year, and post their grades
with the word they picked.  I can't see any problems with it (other
than pick bad names, but that is the student's fault, not the
professor's).
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