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Presentations and Training
The Office of Community Standards and Student Conduct is available for presentations or training.
Presentations or training offered:
- Academic Integrity
- Code of Student Conduct
- Managing Inappropriate Student Behavior/Disruption
If you do not see a particular topic on our list, please let us know and our staff can design a program to fit your needs. We will be happy to schedule a presentation for your department, office, class, or team.
Sessions offered by our staff are for:
- Academic Departments
- Faculty, Staff, and Students
- Residence Life Staff (RAs/CDs)
- Athletics
- Student Groups/Organizations
- First-year seminars (UVC)
FERPA DOs & DON’Ts
DO
- Do use the university’s Learning Management System to post grades
- Do use a sealed envelope if you need to send out student information
- Do obtain a signed release form from a student before releasing records to someone who’s requested that student’s records
- If you have a good-faith belief that a health or safety emergency exists, then do release records necessary to deal with that emergency situation
- Do use a student’s wright.edu email address for correspondence you need to send to that student
- Do use your wright.edu email address for correspondence you need to send out in your role for the university (other systems may not be as secure as ours)
- Do protect your log-in password
- If someone calls you requesting educational record information, do go through steps to verify that the person on the phone is who the person claims to be (i.e., the student him/herself, or someone the student has authorized to have access to such information)
- Do keep your computer locked when you’re not in your office
- Do set your handheld devices (including smartphones and tablets) to automatically lock when not in use for a period of time
- Do use the student’s name and the last four digits of their UID when including their information in an email or on an Outlook calendar entry
DON’T
- Don’t use systems other than the university’s Learning Management System to post grades
- Don’t post grades by SSN or student UID number either physically (e.g., printed sheet on office door) or electronically (e.g., website that you maintain)
- Don’t send out student information on a post-card
- Don’t discuss a student’s information in such a way that others might overhear
- Don’t send grade information or other student details to a student at an email address you don’t recognize to be theirs (the safest way is to use a student’s wright.edu address)
- Don’t release information about a student by phone or email without first confirming the identity of the recipient
- Don’t leave student information where it could be seen or accessed by others
- Don’t leave student papers or tests in a pile for students to sort through to pick theirs up
- Don’t dispose of student records in ordinary trash
- Don’t access Banner to find out information about a student for reasons unrelated to your University duties
- Don’t share your password (not even with student employees)
- If your child is a student at Wright State, don’t use your university resources/access to look up your child’s records unless you have your child’s consent
- Don’t leave your computer or handheld device unlocked when you’re away from them
- Don’t use complete UIDs in an email or on an Outlook calendar entry