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[Nursallj]

Hi All

 

have a concern that i want to check if anyother secoundary school are aware or using the site Learn to code | Codecademy for coding .. it not a UK site or affilicated to any exam board , the concern is that is hold student data which would be a breach of any Data protection policy and safeguarding concerns , seem to be a US site.

 

what im asking anyone else us this site or do i need to take my concerns furture , also anyone know a approved site that has capita or exam board acerditation that would do the same

[synaesthesia]

What for, it doesn't hold any data - just whatever they're coding...

[JRowley]

You just login to it and it tracks your progress, to my knowledge it holds no sensitive data beyond the login details you supply. It doesn't link to any systems like SIMS or AD.

[Nursallj]

It hold student data , allows you to track there process, in Classes if you enter that data. that my concern

[Boredguy]

You don't even need to login to use the site.

[Nursallj]

You just login to it and it tracks your progress, to my knowledge it holds no sensitive data beyond the login details you supply. It doesn't link to any systems like SIMS or AD.

a studnets name year and school info would be classes as DATA, which is a safegaurding concren ? as its free what do they do with this user data.

[Nursallj]

You don't even need to login to use the site.

you need to registure to use the site you cant get in with out a login

[JRowley]

a studnets name year and school info would be classes as DATA, which is a safegaurding concren ? as its free what do they do with this user data.

 

Do you need to enter any of that data? You can use the site without even registering, just because they offer a feature doesn't mean it has to be used.

 

Edit: Here is the starting point for Python - http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python (No need to register at all)

Edited November 21, 2014 by JRowley

[Nursallj]

Do you need to enter any of that data? You can use the site without even registering, just because they offer a feature doesn't mean it has to be used.

do you use this in your school then that the main question i agree you dont have to eneter the students data but (what if some one has or did) this is my issues im investigating currently . what i would like to know if anyone else uses this site in a School, it not the coding side im worried about its the Tracking data if a member of staff uses that option there major concerns on this. Edited November 21, 2014 by JohnNursall

[JRowley]

do you use this in your school then that the main question i agree you dont have to eneter the students data but (what if some one has or did) this is my issues im investigating currently . what i would like to know if anyone else uses this site in a School

 

We don't formally use it, though occasionally it's used for a club but they don't use it as registered members, but you could just write some guidelines to say that you don't enter sensitive data such as school info/classes. Alternatively you could issue each student with generic information CS001, CS002 for names etc.

Edited November 21, 2014 by JRowley

[Nursallj]

we do have guidlines in place im just seeing why they would want to us this site and enter data, one it free i understand but they must get somthink out of it and the data would be profit for them to sell on, Thanks nice to know in not allowen with this thinking

[JRowley]

To be perfectly honest I think Code Academy have put those features in place purely for the users benefit, not for some underhanded reason. If you have guidelines in place then you shouldn't really have anything to worry about.

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