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From: scoop@aplvax.jhuapl.edu (Steve Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Posting grades
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Date: 23 Dec 88 15:06:59 GMT
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In article <9248@ihlpb.ATT.COM> nevin1@ihlpb.UUCP (55528-Liber,N.J.) writes:
>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...
>
>This still may not be legal....

>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. 

What's wrong with the method of posting grades with the students'
Social Security Numbers beside the grade?  SSN's are rather unique
(would hope so!) and they are not known to anyone but the individual -
unless he/she has shared it with others.  Anyone who has access to the
student's SSN by other methods (forms, etc), is bound by privacy in
those situations not to disclose this info. So I would assume this also
precludes them from checking out students' grades based on info they
received in such a manner.  Did I miss a discussion on SSN's before?


			Steve Cooper
			scoop@aplvax.jhuapl.edu.UUCP