I am very concerned about FERPA. Does the i>clicker national registration site obtain information that could violate any FERPA requirements?
The data collected by i>clicker is minimal and meaningless when disconnected from the professor’s roster, contained only on the desktop. The i>clicker web registration process was specifically designed to consider privacy/FERPA laws. Students who register their clicker online via our national database must enter their last name, first name, student ID, as determined by the professor, and i>clicker remote ID. This data is stored on a SQL server database owned by Macmillan, the parent company of i>clicker. We do not collect or store the students’ IP addresses, nor do we request student school affiliation, course information, or email address. As a result, the data is purposefully of no use outside of registration. Specifically, as related to FERPA, we don’t collect non-directory student information in an interpretable and traceable way. For example, we won’t know if a Michael Lee registered on our site is from the University of California-Irvine or New York University—the information can
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