Can faculty publicly post class grades?
The public posting of grades, either by the student’s name, institutional student identification number or social security number, without the student’s written permission, is a violation of FERPA. Even with names obscured, numeric student identifiers can be considered personally identifiable information and therefore violate FERPA. Instructors are permitted to assign students unique numbers or codes that can be used to post grades. However, the codes cannot be derived from information in the student record, and the order of the posting must not be alphabetic. Posting of aggregate data that does not specifically identify any students, such as a grade distribution chart for a class, is permissible.
