Guidelines & Policies

General Guidelines for Sponsored Account Use

Family Educational Rights Privacy Act (FERPA)

Blackboard Tools and Student Privacy

Blackboard Sponsored Accounts

General Guidelines for Sponsored Account Use:

Account holders/users (owners) and their sponsors are held responsible for the correct use of the sponsored account. Sponsored accounts are not to be used for commercial purposes and should serve educational and university purposes.

The following policies apply:

• Use of the sponsored account must:

• Comply with the internet guidelines and ethical standards of Carnegie Mellon. Policies and guidelines are available at:
  http://www.cmu.edu/computing/documentation/index_policies.html

• Comply with the intent of the sponsorship as stated by the account sponsor.

• All questions or changes related to the account must be referred to the account sponsor (a senior staff or faculty person, or a departmental account administrator).
• Cooperation is expected from both sponsors and sponsored accounts holders in any official resource management activities led by Computing Services that may require cooperative participation.
• The account must be used in a reasonably secure manner. This includes using recommended authentication methods and setting a secure password.
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Students' Rights to Privacy Guidelines published by Enrollment Services:
http://www.cmu.edu/hub/privacy.html

Official policy published by the university on student privacy rights:
http://www.cmu.edu/policies/documents/StPrivacy.html

Blackboard tools that users should be familiar with to avoid exposing information covered by FERPA.
http://www.web.emory.edu/services/blackboard/ferpa.htm

Pages 6 and 7 of this document address the issues as they related to Blackboard:
http://etatmo.missouri.edu/resources/doconline/FERPAConcerns.pdf