At the University of Montana, faculty email to a student about class performance must be sent from the teacher's official university email account and be directed to the student's official university email address. An individual student does have the option of modifying part of their official profile so that university email address becomes an alias for something else, e.g., a gmail account.
The authorization process on my WeBWorK server creates student accounts with the official university email addresses. During consultation with our school's legal counsel, I was advised to disable the capability within WeBWorK for a student to change that record. Accordingly, I added the following line as the next-to-last line in localOverrides.conf
$permissionLevels{change_email_address} = 'professor' ;
(defaults.config sets that to 'student', since defaults loads site.conf before doing its thing, making the change in site.conf gets overriden by defaults).
Are there other configuration settings that need careful consideration given FERPA constraints?
This is a nice idea. I'm sure our registrar's office would want us to do the same thing. Have you tested that this has the desired effect of preventing students from changing their email addresses?
-Hal
We copied Dick's idea and it works great in 2.7. Our ITS department was very happy as this does make our system more FERPA friendly.
Jim, Oregon Tech
Jim, Oregon Tech
Although a student still has a link labeled
Password/Email
the linked page shows
Change Password
Ima Student's Current Password [text box]
Ima Student's New Password [text box]
Confirm Ima Student's New Password [text box]
Change Email Address
You do not have permission to change email addresses.
Password/Email
the linked page shows
Change Password
Ima Student's Current Password [text box]
Ima Student's New Password [text box]
Confirm Ima Student's New Password [text box]
Change Email Address
You do not have permission to change email addresses.