Interviewed IT administrators indicated high levels of distrust in the ability of faculty to sufficiently protect the privacy of student data.
The interviewee at UCCS mentioned a time at which they saw that a faculty member had left a pile of graded student exams out on a table in front of their office, which is a clear violation fo student privacy (students leafing through the exams could see the grades of other students in the class). The interviewee expressed some frustration at the fact that faculty seem to disregard student privacy in the name of what is convenient.
The interviewee at CU Denver said that if faculty were not regulated in who they could extend access to in their courses, they would have a very bad situation. They explained that the IT department at CU Denver had to initiate policy to prevent faculty from adding people from outside the course (or even the school) to their courses (these could be auditors from other universities, work partners, guest lecturers, etc.). All people who faculty at CU Denver want to add to a course must be reviewed and approved by the university, in order to limit the potential number of eyes viewing students’ data.
CU LMS Privacy Survey Data Visualizations 