There were two correct answers for this item. According to the interviews with top-level IT administrators, it is extremely difficult for anybody to see which course materials a student has actually downloaded from the LMS. The data is available, but it requires an extensive amount of searching, and is only viewable for administrators with the ability to access every piece of data in the LMS. While course instructors are able to view which information a student has accessed, they are not able to see whether or not a student has actually downloaded this data onto their computer. Therefore, nobody mentioned in the survey is really able to view this tell. That being said, students are still able to know which materials they downloaded, so “only the student” is also a viable answer choice.
Correct response rates for administrators, faculty, and students were 26%, 17%, and 45%, respectively. The majority of students chose “only the student” as an answer, probably because they are obviously able to tell if they download something from an LMS. This could explain why the correct response rate for students was so much higher than the other groups.
The concentrations of all responses indicate that across the board, respondents appear to be thinking of this data as having high levels of confidentiality, despite low levels of agreement on exactly where the line is drawn. “Don’t know” response rates for all three groups are high, at 20%, 33%, and 26%, respectively. This, along with a fairly wide distribution of answers, indicates low levels of confidence and consensus, overall.
CU LMS Privacy Survey Data Visualizations 