The institution maintained privacy primarily through role-based access limiting data by user role and through technological security protocols such as single sign-on and encryption¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · qualitative r3 · q2
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q2 i? Limiting student data access based on individual roles was a foundational privacy consideration in the system's setup. → Mary Francis 2023 q2 i? Technological security measures, including single sign-on and encryption of stored emails, were described by users as privacy protections. → Mary Francis 2023 (2)

Evidence¶

Mary Francis 2023¶

Mary Francis, Mejai Bola Mike Avoseh, Karen Card, Lisa Newland and Kevin Streff. (2023). Student Privacy and Learning Analytics: Investigating the Application of Privacy Within a Student Success Information System in Higher Education. Journal of Learning Analytics 10(3). https://doi.org/10.18608/jla.2023.7975

q2 · i? · qualitative · r3

Interview with Paul, part of the team that set up the system, describing how role-based access was established. The company's help centre states the system "provides role-based access, allowing access to certain data to only those users with sufficient privileges."

"Permission access points were migrated from the shared student information system in terms of roles"

Mary Francis 2023 (2)¶

q2 · i? · qualitative · r3

System director interview describing technological security as a privacy measure. Company documentation adds that emails stored in the platform "are encrypted at rest, which prevents unauthorized access or theft."

"There's a lot of stops that we have in place that would try to make it so that nobody would just get in, you know, it's all in a single sign on"

Discussion¶

In one institution's early-stage learning analytics implementation, inductive coding of interviews and documents surfaced three privacy themes: FERPA compliance, role-based access and security measures, and students' relationship with their data — related
Seven state AI guidance documents share seven major themes, including human-centered use, AI literacy, equity, and data privacy, though not all themes appear in all documents — related
Users of a student success information system showed only a surface-level understanding of privacy, with FERPA serving as the extent of many interviewees' privacy knowledge — related
Universities converge on privacy-oriented data guardrails, warning against entering sensitive data into consumer AI tools and encouraging institutionally approved services — related

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`title`	`The institution maintained privacy primarily through role-based access limiting data by user role and through technological security protocols such as single sign-on and encryption`
`description`	`The institution maintained privacy primarily through role-based access limiting data by user role and through technological security protocols such as single sign-on and encryption`
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`evidence_strength`	`weak`
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