Teacher access to Student directories

I've gotten a request from our teachers to grant them access privileges to 
student directories.  I find this going a bit overboard and quite possibly 
an invasion of privacy.  I can understand granting school Administrators 
access, but not the teachers. Thus allowing six instead of 60 the ability 
to check for possible issues. Has anyone dealt with this type of issue in 
the past?  Does anyone know if there are any legal issues with allowing 
such access?  Would anyone know if there is a website devoted to legal 
issues in education? Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Allen  

What I have done for a few schools that wanted a spot for students to
drop assignments and recieve assignments was to create a
DropBox\teacherName\class location where teh stdents have WC rights,
not read, filescan, or modify.

For the return of corrected assignments I setup a
gradyear\studentName\inbox\ location where the teachers (via group)
have RWCEMF rights to only that directory.  This is easiest to setup
with a bat file.

This has worked well for the schools that have it and the teachers use
it.

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Timothy Leerhoff

Allen,

I've had requests in the past where some teachers have wanted access to 
student directories for some projects. The way we've set it up at that 
point have been creating project groups and added the teachers in to 
those groups.
I've also had teachers experiencing big problems with students filling
up their quotas in their home directories with all kinds of junks.
This has been at some minor schools where budgets have been very low. The 
fix we ended up taking where to eliminate the home directories altogether 
and instead have the students store all their data on diskettes.

Another option to limit the kinds of data students can store are to use 
special programs on the server or to have the students work via Web 
portals. A popular web portal here in Sweden is Fronter, www.fronter.info/
com which comes pretty much with it's own framework for handling trustees 
and everything.

As for the legal aspects I have no idea. I would think that it differs
quite a lot between different countries.


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Niclas Ekstedt, CNA/CNE/CNS/CLS
Systems Engineer/NSC Sysop
Telindus Göteborg AB

Telindus. Change things your way

Timothy Leerhoff wrote:

> What I have done for a few schools that wanted a spot for students to
> drop assignments and recieve assignments
.

Tim,

First thanks for your response.

We have used the drop off box in previous years, to some various levels of 
success depending on the teacher. As for the return box, I am not sure how 
a batch file would help to set it up.  Could you give me an example?  

Allen

  

To do this without software authoring or scripting, I use an export of
the student users with their OU (grad year).  I import that into Excel
and mangle the info into a collumn or 2 that are the needed bat
commands.  I copy them to a text file I save then run.  The lines from
the bat file are something like:

MD data:\STUDENTS\2007\studentname1\INBOX
MD data:\STUDENTS\2007\studentname2\INBOX
.
.
rights +RWCEMF data:\STUDENTS\2007\studentname1\INBOX
teachers.groups.org
rights +RWCEMF data:\STUDENTS\2007\studentname1\INBOX
teachers.groups.org

Or similar, I do not have a server available to me right now to verify
the DOS line.

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Timothy Leerhoff