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Student Educational Records and Data Security 

Information that you pull from Carmen is protected by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Student educational records are considered to be private S3 data, so they should not be downloaded or stored on personal devices.  

When you use university-provided equipment and recommended processes, the data will be properly encrypted throughout the process. We recommend creating a specific folder on your university-supplied computer to store the evidence as you download it. Once the COAM case has concluded, delete your downloaded copies. 

 

If you need to submit evidence of the settings from a Carmen discussion assignment, follow the instructions below:

  1. Go to Assignments/Discussions and click the name of the Discussion assignment. 

Discussion Name Selection

  1. When on the Discussion assignment page, click the vertical dot menu to the right of the initial post. Select Edit. 

Discussions Edit Button

  1. From the Discussion’s editing page, use your browser’s PrintPage function to create a PDF file.
    1. For most browsers, you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+P or Command+P to activate the Print function. For many browsers, you can also right-click or control-click to call up the context menu and then select Print.
    2. Change the print method or destination to Save to PDF. Note that “Save to PDF” creates a more accessible file than “Print to PDF.”
    3. Save the file to your preferred location. 

Discussions Post 

Turnitin cannot be enabled on discussions. The screen-printing options described elsewhere in this document may not work with Discussions in Carmen. If you are unable to select the desired sections and print to PDF, you may need to take screenshots from the discussion instead.You can also go to the Speedgrader for the discussion post and view the contributions of the individual student. Take a screenshot of the student’s contributions. 

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