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There Is a Heightened Awareness Around Student Data Privacy. Here’s What Schools Are Doing About It

Digital Promise

Recent articles emerged as a result of remote learning, including: Remote Learning Software Tracked Kids’ Data to Sell to Advertisers and Brokers. Private equity firm is amassing companies that collect data on America’s children. FTC (Federal Trade Commission) to ‘Crack Down’ on Ed Tech, Student Data Privacy.

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Blackboard to Sell Open LMS Product for $31.7 Million

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-based provider of learning management software for K-12, higher ed, government and businesses, has agreed to sell its Open LMS business to Learning Technologies Group, or LTG, a London-based conglomerate of workplace learning software services. As part of the deal, LTG will resell Blackboard products integrated with Open LMS.

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How to find an LMS that supports student privacy and data security

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Proud to be one of just 13 districts nationwide to receive the Consortium for Student Networking (CoSN) Trusted Learning Environment Seal—which designates institutions that have taken measurable steps to implement practices to help ensure the privacy of student data—we knew that our existing learning management system (LMS) wasn’t up to the task.

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4 Items on Instructure’s To-Do List After the Sale of the Canvas LMS Provider

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For example, despite increased activity on the platform—concurrent users on the Canvas LMS were up 60 percent from typical use patterns and video submissions are up tenfold from typical use patterns pre-Covid-19—the costs of moving more data and training more educators will keep the company from a short-term windfall, Benson says.

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World Backup Day March 31st: Student data security

Neo LMS

Another thing you can do is to discuss student data privacy and digital security with PTA members, teachers, and school board administrators. Beyond providing insight, security evaluations and LMS software help administrators address potential vulnerabilities and defend student data immediately. Conclusion.

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Campus Edtech Has Shifted Focus From Tech to Ed

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But by 2010, LMS selections were increasingly influenced by faculty input. But a shift in the center of gravity from the IT department to the end users is happening more quickly in data-driven edtech applications than it did for the LMS. Already, educators and students are asking good, hard questions. And it showed.

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Overcoming security and privacy concerns with e-learning

Neo LMS

Students are especially susceptible to scams that convey a sense of authority or that contain veiled threats regarding one’s permanent record. All students and educators should be on the lookout for suspicious emails that may be indicative of phishing scams. But it’s not only finances at stake where student data privacy is concerned.

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