Parent Users-Logging in?

[Debby Schloss]

We are curious to know how other schools are offering parent logins to the system. At your school, do parents login with their child's id or their own? Our parentbody is not thrilled with having to remember another set of ids & pws and we are considering making our classes open (no sign in required). Have you had success with parent ids or an experience similar to ours? What are your thoughts on open sites?

Thanks,

Debby Schloss

SAR Academy

[Brian, Seiler]

Debby:

We give parents a separate login and mail the username and password to their house at the beginning of the year.

I would caution strongly against open classes, for the security of the children. If classes are open, it would give anyone the ability to perform a google search and find out private details about a student that are not the public's business...(class schedule, student work, student's opinions, writing, discussion responses, etc.) A predator could use this information for nefarious purposes.

Another con for open classes is intellectual property rights of the teachers. Teachers are typically willing to share, but they like to be asked first, and many don't want to share ALL of their work. An open class would offer all the teacher's work to the public for free.

Best regards,


Brian T. Seiler
Director of Technology
St. Edward High School
13500 Detroit Ave.
Lakewood, OH 44107
P. (216) 221-3776 Ext. 210
F. (216) 221-4609

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[Justin Goff]

Thanks for chiming in, Brian!

A quick note about public classes: Roster entries and anything associated with them are not visible to guests who visit public classes without logging in. This Knowledgebase article describes what is and isn't visible to guests in public classes, but generally speaking guests only see Pages, the Calendar, and descriptions of things like Announcements, Assessments, and such. They would only see student names, student grades, or student work if the teacher had copied that information into, say, a Text Block or an Assessment description (for some reason).

In other words, regardless of the Public or Private status of a class, student data contained within any class will only be available to enrolled, logged-in users, as appropriate to their role in the class roster.

Note also that, as of last Friday, it's now possible to make a class Public to Domain - that is, public to anyone who is logged in to your domain, but not to the general public. The same restrictions listed above apply in this case.

Cheers,

Justin

[Nicholas Pietrowski]

Hi Debby,

I hope this message finds you well. It is best practice to have separate logins. You could explain that nobody ever wants another login, but for privacy sake we must. If a child confides parental abuse to a teacher through inbox there must be appropriate privacy barriers. As Brian pointed out intellectual property is a concern also.

If your classes are adding content blocks with student pictures and information, depending where you live it is against the law to not have it password protected. It would be a huge headache, even more so for the parents is their information slipped out because a nonprivacy oriented teacher used an attendance form with addresses listing who is bring in which snack for a party. In the end, the parents need to pick their head ache.

Best,

Nick

Seton Montessori

[Melissa Smith]

We have the parents use their child's login, but our school only goes to grade 6. We attempted to set up parents separately but only 2 actually used it, each only one time, at the start of the school year. I know of middle and high schools that give separate log ins and the parents were fine with it. Our gradebook is not tied to haiku. I bet if it was they'd be accessing it more and would be worthy of our time to set them up. 

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Melissa Smith

@edutechsmith
Director of Technology

Presbyterian Day School
Memphis, TN
901-842-4600
pdsmemphis.org

PDS strives to glorify God by developing boys in wisdom and stature and favor with God and man. We offer 640 boys in PK-6th grade a rigorous program focused on 21st century skills.

[Stephanie Oberle]

Debby - 

We are a PK-12 school in San Diego. For PK-8, parents create a haiku log-in with the invitation code creating using the Parent Invitations Tool in Domain Control. This allows the parent access to all the classes their child is enrolled. For grades 9-12, it's up to the teacher if they want the parent to see the class or not. If the teacher chooses to grant parental access, then they create an invitation code through their class roster. We've not had many grumbles on creating another account to access Haiku. We have made the time at parent meetings to show them how to access the information, at least in the MS, and how to navigate through Haiku. We also encourage our parents to have their child explain how Haiku is being used.

For similar reasons already stated, we don't allow any of our classes to be public.

Have a great day.

Stephanie

Francis Parker School  |  San Diego, CA
www.francisparker.org | @francisparkersc | facebook.com/francisparkerschool

As Far As The Mind Can See

[Amy Tindal]

Hi! Since we are switching from this Haiku Users Group over to the Haiku Learning Community Forum, please feel free to continue this conversation here: Community Forum

Thank you!

On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 12:14:45 PM UTC-8, Debby Schloss wrote: