Incidentally, any vle (virtual learning environment)will log student access as standard many with the option of obtaining very detailed reports of student activity.
Fran
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Sent: 02 March 2007 14:07
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Subject: Re: [data-protection] Access to computer log-in details
Where they able to access the course work/whatever off-site ? That would
make the stats meaningless.
Brenda Scourfield
Team Leader
I.T. Division
Pembrokeshire County Council
County Hall
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> [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Samantha Hill
> Sent: 02 March 2007 14:01
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> Subject: Re: Access to computer log-in details
>
> Dear All
>
> Thanks very much for everyone's helpful comments. The general consensus
> seems to be that we shouldn't be giving this access without the students'
> consent and as I'm not comfortable that the schedule 2 condition works,
> I'll go back to the lecturer and refuse access.
>
> I'm grateful for the responses - it helps to know others have the same
> opinion when I know I'm about to be told that the DPA is pure bureaucracy
> and gets in the way of others trying to do their job - again! TGIF!
>
> Samantha
>
> PS My colleagues laughed when I told them we had to complete our
> dissertations on typewriters with carbon paper and a bottle of Tippex.
> Most asked what carbon paper was. The youth of today!
>
> Samantha Hill
> Complaints & Information Disclosure Officer
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> Tel: 02392 843642
>
>
> >>> "Carter, Antoinette (MCS)" <[log in to unmask]>
> 02/03/2007 12:41 >>>
> I agree with you that the Schedule 2 condition is not clear. I think in
> any event you would be well-advised to tell the lecturer to speak to his
> students first before resorting to this type of action. It strikes me
> that unless it is a computing course, the students are not under any
> obligation to complete a certain number of hours at their PCs, so
> tracking their log-in periods is inappropriate. There was a time (when
> I was young!) when you could complete a course without the aid of a
> computer at all!
>
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Samantha Hill
> Sent: 02 March 2007 11:56
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [data-protection] Access to computer log-in details
>
> Dear All
>
> I would appreciate your comments on a question that has arisen here.
>
> A lecturer has requested the log-in records for students to a particular
> computing system as he believes there will be a correlation between
> recent poor exam results and the amount of times the students have
> accessed this computer system. In providing the log-in records we would
> be disclosing the personal data of the students as I think the purpose
> is to be able to say Student A accessed the system once for 5 minutes
> and got 10% whereas Student B accessed the system 10 times for an hour
> each time and got 70%.
>
> As far as I can find out we have not told the students that we will be
> doing this, nor that the findings will be discussed with the external
> examiner who is bound to question the low marks, so I have problems with
> disclosing the student's personal data - unless the sixth condition of
> Schedule 2, that the processing is necessary for the purposes of
> legitimate interests of the data controller, can be used.
>
> I would be grateful for comments on whether this processing would be
> considered a legitimate purpose and/ or others experience of a similar
> situation.
>
> Thanks very much
>
> Samantha Hill
> University of Portsmouth
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